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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: bitt

Bttt


41 posted on 10/04/2018 3:05:07 AM PDT by hawkaw
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To: Yo-Yo

Torchwood field base.


42 posted on 10/04/2018 3:07:32 AM PDT by wally_bert (I will competently make sure the thing is done incompetently.)
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To: blueplum
The Little Hangy Silver Balls ThingyTM
43 posted on 10/04/2018 3:18:41 AM PDT by LibWhacker
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To: blueplum
JK, Newton's Cradle.


44 posted on 10/04/2018 3:27:30 AM PDT by LibWhacker
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To: bitt

So God says: “y’all think you have it just about figured out? How about, THIS!”


45 posted on 10/04/2018 3:30:41 AM PDT by Psalm 73 ("I will now proceed to entangle the entire area".)
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To: bitt

I’m sorry, my old eyes are starting to fail I read “Bizarre Particles Keep Flying out of Feinstein’s _ss, and They Might Shatter Modern Physics


46 posted on 10/04/2018 3:42:32 AM PDT by 2nd Amendment
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To: LibWhacker

yes! that’s exactly it. LOL Ray goes in, ray goes out. just like in the pic


47 posted on 10/04/2018 3:58:06 AM PDT by blueplum ( "...this moment is your moment: it belongs to you... " President Donald J. Trump, Jan 20, 2017)
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To: bitt

The Earth is passing gas from it’s bottom?!
Globull Warming!


48 posted on 10/04/2018 4:03:38 AM PDT by outofsalt (If history teaches us anything, it's that history rarely teaches us anything.)
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To: bitt

“shouldn’t be able to do that”

The particles do what they can do and what “scientists” think they should be able to do doesn’t matter.


49 posted on 10/04/2018 4:33:56 AM PDT by I want the USA back (Cynicism is the only refuge in a world that is determined to eliminate itself.)
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To: bitt

Must be the Algoreon.


50 posted on 10/04/2018 4:35:18 AM PDT by ZULU (MAGA)
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To: bitt
Physicists don’t know what it is exactly.

I'm baffled too......

51 posted on 10/04/2018 4:38:14 AM PDT by Hot Tabasco (I once found a needle in a haystack but it wasn't the one I was looking for...)
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To: GraceG

How dare you apply logic...don’t you know that applying logic in this day and age is like the crime of mansplaining....? /sarc


52 posted on 10/04/2018 4:42:53 AM PDT by mdmathis6
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To: who_would_fardels_bear
"Materialists don’t believe in teleons, but they could exist."


Teleons, or materialists?
53 posted on 10/04/2018 4:43:42 AM PDT by Hugh the Scot (Moron Lube)
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To: who_would_fardels_bear

Perhaps it’s the Macrons from CS Lewis’ “That Hideous Strength”!


54 posted on 10/04/2018 4:44:26 AM PDT by mdmathis6
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To: Psalm 73

God loves scientists. He has made sure our work is NEVER finished.


55 posted on 10/04/2018 4:48:39 AM PDT by NorthMountain (... the right of the peopIe to keep and bear arms shall not be infringed)
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To: mdmathis6; who_would_fardels_bear

Ooops...I meant Macrobes! Sorry all!


56 posted on 10/04/2018 4:49:53 AM PDT by mdmathis6
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To: Elsie

The mormon prophets ???


57 posted on 10/04/2018 4:58:53 AM PDT by Tennessee Nana (r)
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To: bitt

Well, I’ll suspect that supercold latticed Antarctic ice crystals that formed over thousands of year have hydrogen atoms locked in water molecules. That array of locked up hydrogen singular protons can provide a neutrino reflection in the form of a new “ray”

Just speculation though. No lab proof


58 posted on 10/04/2018 5:02:49 AM PDT by bert ((KE. N.P. N.C. +12) Muller..... conspiracy to over throw the government)
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To: Rennes Templar

Dripping sarc, thought it was obvious in the context of a post on FR.


59 posted on 10/04/2018 5:05:41 AM PDT by NonValueAdded (#DeplorableMe #BitterClinger #HillNO! #cishet #MyPresident #MAGA #Winning #covfefe)
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To: bitt
Bizarre Particles Keep Flying out of Antarctica's Ice...

Is this another KavanaUGH THREAD??

60 posted on 10/04/2018 5:12:15 AM PDT by Elsie (Heck is where people, who don't believe in Gosh, think they are not going...)
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