Posted on 04/16/2006 7:25:14 AM PDT by rellimpank
Physics giant Wolfgang Pauli told a friend in 1930, "I have done something very bad today."
Pauli's sin was "proposing a particle that cannot be detected," which he lamented "is something no theorist should ever do." Three years later, Enrico Fermi christened Pauli's ghost particle the "neutrino."
In 1951, physicists Frederick Reines and Clyde Cowen first detected man-made neutrinos in an experiment at a nuclear reactor in South Carolina.
Later, researcher Ray Davis detected solar neutrinos at his famous experiment 4,850 feet underground in the Homestake gold mine in Lead. The Homestake rock shielded his detector from interfering cosmic rays. However, Davis' experiment depended on accurately counting a handful of argon atoms in a giant tank of chlorine solution. When his results didn't match conventional wisdom, skeptics scoffed.
(Excerpt) Read more at rapidcityjournal.com ...
--more from yesterday--
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1615635/posts
/silliness
I immediately reached for my varmint gun and traps thinking they had increased the Bounty on Nutria....WTF are neutrinos?
apart from males in the Democratic Party and Republican Senators.
-Google neutrino, neutrino lab+South Dakota or search the Rapid City Journal for more--much more--
They're talking about you again!!!
The neutrino deficit of our sun is one of the most enduring of scientific mysteries. According to theory the sun should put out three times the number of neutrinos it does.
I can feel the core of my being swelling up with pride... But one must be careful. An excess of pride can result in decay.
It's no longer a mystery. Neutrinos can oscillate and change into other types of neutrinos accounting for the "deficit."
Or becoming a Hadron...
The shame of it. Going from being a proud neutrino to a composite particle. The next thing you know, certain people want to run one through the accelerator.
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