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Kajita becomes Nobel physics prize co-winner
NHK (Japan Broadcasting Company) ^
 | October 6, 2015
 | NHK
Posted on 10/06/2015 5:20:48 AM PDT by chajin
A Japanese scientist has won this year's Nobel Prize in Physics. Takaaki Kajita proved that neutrinos have mass. The neutrino is an elementary particle consisting of matter. 
 Kajita observed neutrinos at a facility deep underground. He was part of a team that detected that some of the particles change to different types of neutrino. That proved neutrinos have mass. The discoveries were revealed at an international conference in 1998. 
 His work surprised researchers all around the world because it disproved the established theory that neutrinos do not have mass. 
 Kajita is the 24th Nobel Prize winner born in Japan. And he's the 11th to win the Physics award.
TOPICS: Japan; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: japan; mass; neutrinos; pnysics; savethetheory; science; standardmodel; stringtheory; takaakikajita
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posted on 
10/06/2015 5:20:49 AM PDT
by 
chajin
 
To: chajin
    Neutrinos have mass? Who knew that subatomic particles could be Catholic as well?
 
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posted on 
10/06/2015 5:21:23 AM PDT
by 
chajin
("There is no other name under heaven given among people by which we must be saved." Acts 4:12)
 
To: chajin
    Well, there is the God Particle, so doesn’t it follow?
 
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posted on 
10/06/2015 5:24:10 AM PDT
by 
NonValueAdded
(In a Time of Universal Deceit, Telling the Truth Is a Revolutionary Act)
 
To: chajin
    He actually EARNED that Nobel prize unlike Obama?
 
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posted on 
10/06/2015 5:24:57 AM PDT
by 
Jack Hydrazine
(Pubbies = national collectivists; Dems = international collectivists; We need a second party!)
 
To: chajin
    Shared the award with Canadian Physicist Arthur McDonald.
 
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posted on 
10/06/2015 5:27:34 AM PDT
by 
xp38
 
To: NonValueAdded
    Well, there is the God Particle, so doesnt it follow?But do Baptist neutrinos only have communion?
 
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posted on 
10/06/2015 5:29:35 AM PDT
by 
chajin
("There is no other name under heaven given among people by which we must be saved." Acts 4:12)
 
To: chajin
    They’re out trying to evangelize the other particles.
 
To: Lake Living
    Theyre out trying to evangelize the other particles. Making other particles change? Trans-particles? What, spin or mass dysphoria? This trans-agenda is going too far!
 
To: 6SJ7; AdmSmith; AFPhys; Arkinsaw; allmost; aristotleman; autumnraine; bajabaja; ...
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posted on 
10/07/2015 4:31:28 AM PDT
by 
SunkenCiv
(Here's to the day the forensics people scrape what's left of Putin off the ceiling of his limo.)
 
To: chajin
    I thought that this had been proven years ago.
May have to read a new book about neutrinos now.
 
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posted on 
10/07/2015 10:28:39 AM PDT
by 
Conan the Librarian
(The Best in Life is to crush my enemies, see them driven before me, and  the Dewey Decimal System)
 
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