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Bizarre Particles Keep Flying out of Antarctica's Ice, and They Might Shatter Modern Physics
scienticamerican.com ^ | 9/29/2018 | Rafi Letzier

Posted on 10/03/2018 9:43:57 PM PDT by bitt

Cosmic rays emanating from the south polar ice cap could lead to new physics

There’s something mysterious coming up from the frozen ground in Antarctica, and it could break physics as we know it.

Physicists don’t know what it is exactly. But they do know it’s some sort of cosmic ray—a high-energy particle that’s blasted its way through space, into the Earth, and back out again. But the particles physicists know about—the collection of particles that make up what scientists call the Standard Model (SM) of particle physics—shouldn’t be able to do that. Sure, there are low-energy neutrinos that can pierce through miles upon miles of rock unaffected. But high-energy neutrinos, as well as other high-energy particles, have “large cross-sections.” That means that they’ll almost always crash into something soon after zipping into the Earth and never make it out the other side.

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TOPICS: Culture/Society; Extended News; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: antarctica; particles; physics
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To: Songcraft

Ice-9?


21 posted on 10/03/2018 10:38:09 PM PDT by rfp1234 (I have already previewed this composition.)
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To: rfp1234

I'm thinking that would more likely be something the demoncraps on that Judiciary committee would probably try to acquire, for easier elimination of various people they don't want in office (like the Judge).

22 posted on 10/03/2018 11:03:09 PM PDT by Songcraft
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>> and it could break physics as we know it.

Hard to believe these same rags are publishing Climate tripe. /s


23 posted on 10/03/2018 11:09:40 PM PDT by Gene Eric (Don't be a statist!)
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To: rfp1234

Foma.


24 posted on 10/03/2018 11:19:57 PM PDT by skepsel (Apres moi, le deluge.)
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To: skr

25 posted on 10/03/2018 11:20:06 PM PDT by Bratch ("The only thing necessary for the triumph of evil is for good men to do nothing." - Edmund Burke)
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To: bitt

Scientific American: “it could break physics as we know it.”

Scientific American: the Newsweek magazine of science. A total waste of print and paper and postage.

Fun facts: There are four forces in nature and either Planck’s units with unify them or Aristotle’s principles will unify the four forces.

Nothing will break the physics of Aristotle, Copernicus, Newton, Bohr, Einstein or Eddington.


26 posted on 10/03/2018 11:26:20 PM PDT by Falconspeed ("Keep your fears to yourself, but share your courage with others." Robert Louis Stevenson (1850-94))
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To: bitt

ome of these bizarre particles should fly up John Kerry’s arse so he can’t sit down to NOT ONLY NOT NEGOTIATE with the Islamic Republic of Iran after being warned & then did it again & HE SHOULD BE PROSECUTED & HIS SECURITY CLEARANCE SHOULD BE REVOKED.


27 posted on 10/03/2018 11:28:11 PM PDT by thesligoduffyflynns (get off my lawn)
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To: bitt

I see the Nazi base down there is still doing their experiments. :)


28 posted on 10/03/2018 11:46:09 PM PDT by cuban leaf
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To: skr

Yeah; back then the Thing was compared to a vegetable if I recall correctly.
THE THING as played by James Arness, AKA Marshall Dillon.


29 posted on 10/04/2018 12:08:12 AM PDT by 5th MEB (Progressives in the open; --- FIRE FOR EFFECT!!)
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To: thesligoduffyflynns

“I particularly wanted to come down here because I was in the Arctic recently and the scientists there kept saying to me… ‘You got to go to Antarctica”.

I’d tell him that too if he was anywhere near me.


30 posted on 10/04/2018 12:14:55 AM PDT by mindburglar (I like spelling it Lazers. It looks cooler.)
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To: Falconspeed

Materialists don’t believe in teleons, but they could exist.


31 posted on 10/04/2018 12:16:04 AM PDT by who_would_fardels_bear
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To: Valpal1

Hitler had teams of scientists down there... not zero point - but something weird.


32 posted on 10/04/2018 12:39:48 AM PDT by GOPJ ( <img src=”https://i.imgur.com/li3mn5N.jpg";></img>)
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To: GOPJ
Anyway, the short of the theory is that a breakaway civilization from 1800’s Prussia established itself in South America, and as they embraced the remnants of the Third Reich after the war, expanded into Antarctica, and developed technologies such as what we would call “flying saucers.

https://kek.gg/i/3XHpvh.png

This breakaway civilization was known as NYMZa.

NYMZa is a transliteration of NJMZa, which stood for:

NATIONALIST
PURSUIT/EXPLORATION
AIRSHIP
PROGRAM OFFICE

If any of this is even remotely true, we’re in for a very wild future. And it all ends up being completely false, boy is it entertaining.

So Sayeth Neon Revolt here:

https://www.neonrevolt.com/2018/03/27/nwo-nymza-world-order-operationpaperclip-qanon/

33 posted on 10/04/2018 12:50:49 AM PDT by x_plus_one ( I pray Gods eyes may once again gaze upon me and remind me that I am still His child.)
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To: bitt

34 posted on 10/04/2018 1:22:23 AM PDT by null and void (The big problem is that the republicans don't keep their campaign promises and the democrats do!)
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To: NonValueAdded

Sar/ tag on that comment or no?


35 posted on 10/04/2018 1:43:34 AM PDT by Rennes Templar (Trump: America First. Obama: Quran First. Clintons: Money First)
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To: bitt

So they they are guessing that these could be slau sleptons or some other evidence of supersymmetry.


36 posted on 10/04/2018 1:50:09 AM PDT by Moonman62 (Give a man a fish and he'll be a Democrat. Teach a man to fish and he'll be a responsible citizen.)
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To: null and void
THAT one took too long .... or FReeperdom is populated with more younger folks.

YAYYYYYY !

Except, there IS a lack of America syndrome ...

Like My Filipina wife .... she's heard of Mickey Mouse and Superman, but has no clue.

37 posted on 10/04/2018 1:55:37 AM PDT by knarf (I say things that are true, I have no proof, but they're true.)
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To: Falconspeed
In Texas all high school competition are governed by UIL, both academic and athletic competitions.

In the 70’s the Science competition consisted of 50 questions, of which a third were pulled from the pages of Scientific American.

Nerds like me could make it to State just by reading the magazine.

My first introduction as to how lazy college professors could be.

38 posted on 10/04/2018 1:56:52 AM PDT by texas booster (Join FreeRepublic's Folding@Home team (Team # 36120) Cure Alzheimer's!)
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To: bitt

Everyone knows Antarctica is where the secret Alien base is located.


39 posted on 10/04/2018 3:02:34 AM PDT by Yo-Yo (Is the /sarc tag really necessary?)
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To: bitt

Well, realistically, where else would we expect the aliens to be hiding?


40 posted on 10/04/2018 3:04:47 AM PDT by sphinx
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