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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: texas booster

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.


61 posted on 10/04/2018 5:20:14 AM PDT by Elsie (Heck is where people, who don't believe in Gosh, think they are not going...)
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To: outofsalt
What do you mean; BOTTOM??



62 posted on 10/04/2018 5:24:55 AM PDT by Elsie (Heck is where people, who don't believe in Gosh, think they are not going...)
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To: Elsie

So, Australia is the land up over.


63 posted on 10/04/2018 5:29:04 AM PDT by bert ((KE. N.P. N.C. +12) Muller..... conspiracy to over throw the government)
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To: bitt

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


64 posted on 10/04/2018 5:30:06 AM PDT by PAR35
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To: bitt

Didn’t I read about this 20 years ago?


65 posted on 10/04/2018 5:33:12 AM PDT by stockpirate (TYRANNY IS THY NAME REBELLION IS OUR ANSWER. HANG THEM ALL!)
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To: Moonman62

sleptons?


66 posted on 10/04/2018 6:19:43 AM PDT by lepton ("It is useless to attempt to reason a man out of a thing he was never reasoned into"--Jonathan Swift)
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To: lepton

A slepton would be the name of your supersymmetric partner.


67 posted on 10/04/2018 6:22:20 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: bitt

68 posted on 10/04/2018 6:33:58 AM PDT by Magnum44 (My comprehensive terrorism plan: Hunt them down and kill them)
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To: mindburglar

Kerry has always been a entitled pr*ck


69 posted on 10/04/2018 6:40:03 AM PDT by thesligoduffyflynns (get off my lawn)
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To: mindburglar

Kerry has always been a entitled pr*ck


70 posted on 10/04/2018 6:40:20 AM PDT by thesligoduffyflynns (get off my lawn)
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To: cuban leaf

They’ve finally achieved Nuclear capabilities. Look out!


71 posted on 10/04/2018 6:46:00 AM PDT by Rebelbase (Consensus isn't science.)
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To: bitt

Not again!


72 posted on 10/04/2018 6:50:33 AM PDT by <1/1,000,000th%
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To: bitt

73 posted on 10/04/2018 6:53:21 AM PDT by TruthWillWin ([[[MSM]]])
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To: bitt

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

— Hamlet (1.5.167-8), Hamlet to Horatio


74 posted on 10/04/2018 6:54:21 AM PDT by ETL (Obama-Hillary, REAL Russia collusion! Uranium-One Deal, Missile Defense, Iran Deal, Nukes: Click ETL)
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To: NonValueAdded

OK. One can’t always tell here.


75 posted on 10/04/2018 8:06:38 AM PDT by Rennes Templar (Trump: America First. Obama: Quran First. Clintons: Money First)
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To: x_plus_one
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...

76 posted on 10/04/2018 8:41:53 AM PDT by GOPJ ("Either you are with Brett Kavanaugh or you are with the terrorists." - unknown)
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To: null and void

cool picture


77 posted on 10/04/2018 9:08:33 AM PDT by Cats Pajamas (Freedom or Liberty? Which would you choose?)
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To: bitt

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


78 posted on 10/04/2018 9:13:49 AM PDT by JimRed ( TERM LIMITS, NOW! Build the Wall Faster! TRUTH is the new HATE SPEECH.)
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To: bitt
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.

79 posted on 10/04/2018 9:32:30 AM PDT by Moltke (Reasoning with a liberal is like watering a rock in the hope to grow a building.)
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