Bizarre Particles Keep Flying out of Antarctica's Ice, and They Might Shatter Modern Physics

scienticamerican.com ^ | 9/29/2018 | Rafi Letzier

[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.

[Elsie]

Now you’ll get leftist pap questions if they are culled from SA.

I gave up (after DECADES of subscriptions) when they slipped over the edge.

They should scrub SCIENTIFIC from the masthead and replace it with ‘THEORIES’
(Unproven, but by golly, it COULD have happened this way!)

Yes, that magazine with the yellow outlined cover is also going this direction rapidly as well.

[Elsie]

What do you mean; BOTTOM??

[bert]

So, Australia is the land up over.

[PAR35]

The reactor that the Nazis are using to power their secret base in Antarctica must have a leak.

[stockpirate]

Didn’t I read about this 20 years ago?

[lepton]

sleptons?

[Moonman62]

A slepton would be the name of your supersymmetric partner.

[Magnum44]

[thesligoduffyflynns]

Kerry has always been a entitled pr*ck

[thesligoduffyflynns]

Kerry has always been a entitled pr*ck

[Rebelbase]

They’ve finally achieved Nuclear capabilities. Look out!

[<1/1,000,000th%]

Not again!

[TruthWillWin]

[ETL]

“There are more things in heaven and earth, Horatio,
Than are dreamt of in your philosophy.”

— Hamlet (1.5.167-8), Hamlet to Horatio

[Rennes Templar]

OK. One can’t always tell here.

[GOPJ]

If any of this is even remotely true, we’re in for a very wild future.

Lots of Russians down there a few years ago...

[Cats Pajamas]

cool picture

[JimRed]

This is our new theory, so give us money to prove it!

[Moltke]

Did you know that the unit for the interaction cross section is the "barn" - which sounds large but is actually quite small? (1 barn = 10^-28m²)

That's what they really mean when they say "couldn't hit the side of a barn", because it is truly difficult.