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Related: About this forumA major physics experiment just detected a particle that shouldn't exist
There's something strange happening in the universe that is making humanity's most cutting-edge physics experiments contradict one another.
Jun.03.2018 / 12:29 PM ET / Source: Live Science
Scientists have produced the firmest evidence yet of so-called sterile neutrinos, mysterious particles that pass through matter without interacting with it at all.
The first hints these elusive particles turned up decades ago. But after years of dedicated searches, scientists have been unable to find any other evidence for them, with many experiments contradicting those old results. These new results now leave scientists with two robust experiments that seem to demonstrate the existence of sterile neutrinos, even as other experiments continue to suggest sterile neutrinos don't exist at all.
That means there's something strange happening in the universe that is making humanity's most cutting-edge physics experiments contradict one another.
STERILE NEUTRINOS
Back in the mid-1990s, the Liquid Scintillator Neutrino Detector (LSND), an experiment at Los Alamos National Laboratory in New Mexico, found evidence of a mysterious new particle: a "sterile neutrino" that passes through matter without interacting with it. But that result couldn't be replicated; other experiments simply couldn't find any trace of the hidden particle. So the result was set aside.
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https://www.nbcnews.com/mach/science/major-physics-experiment-just-detected-particle-shouldn-t-exist-ncna879616
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A major physics experiment just detected a particle that shouldn't exist (Original Post)
Judi Lynn
Jun 2018
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dhill926
(16,364 posts)1. well....Sterile Neutrinos...
would be a great band name....
dameatball
(7,400 posts)2. Yes, but Trump would want to ban any group whose name ends in "inos."
saidsimplesimon
(7,888 posts)3. How about Fertile N....?
As always, many thanks to Judi for sharing science and other interesting updates.
From Shakespeare, Hamlet to Horatio
"There are more things in heaven and earth, Horatio, than are dreamt of in your philosophy."
CatMor
(6,212 posts)4. At first I thought this was going to be a joke meaning it was trump
other than that it is hard to comprehend.
exboyfil
(17,865 posts)5. I just watched a lecture on this topic yesterday
from The Great Courses. It is Lecture 11 - How Neutrino Identity Oscillates from the series
The Theory of Everything: The Quest to Explain All Reality
https://www.thegreatcourses.com/courses/the-theory-of-everything-the-quest-to-explain-all-reality.html
I get the courses through my library's Hoopla.
Duppers
(28,127 posts)6. Wow.