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That was Super-K, the same detector she's talking about in the video. The incident occurred in 2001 and set back the start of the data taking for them quite a bit, they were able t…

Reminds me of Neil Postman's "Amusing Ourselves to Death" (1985), in which he argues that TV as a medium is fundamentally incapable of producing anything other than entertainment. …

This has some great examples, enough to get started and provide some inspiration, but is sadly incomplete. https://rougier.github.io/python-opengl/book.html

To be a bit nit-picky, Cherenkov light typically has a wide spectrum. For water it spans the entire optical range, peaking around 350nm and dying off at longer wavelengths. So you …

It's kinda a complicated question. Cherenkov radiation can be produced in any medium that has index of refraction greater than 1, that's what allows the charged particle radiation …

One line in the piece says "Observing the direct effects of radiation, although possible, requires extraordinary circumstances.". While this is mostly true, you can actually observ…

Most neutrino experiments don't/didn't use heavy water, but the SNO experiment did. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sudbury_Neutrino_Observatory

The only neutrino detector placed in a salt mine was the IMB detector. That detector was ~10kt of water observed by ~2 thousand photo-detectors, it was located ~600meters undergrou…

I think you're correct to say a lot of people simplify what the problem is with neutrino mass. In principle it seems like there is no problem, you just add a mass term for the neut…

Articles like this always remind me of Clifford's "The Ethics of Belief". I feel like no one ever sums up the the importance of thorough and independent thought as well as Clifford…

For their more recent data they reported seeing ~32000 solar neutrino events over a 1600 day dataset (cite: top-right of page 13 https://arxiv.org/pdf/1606.07538.pdf ). Their detec…

I think what you're seeing is either a random noise fluctuations, or perhaps a result of the coordinate system they're using for that image. If you take a look at a similar, more u…

The Ice Cube experiment has done that exact thing. Here's the most recent publication from them on that subject, https://arxiv.org/abs/1910.08488 . Here's a slight older but perhap…

You are correct, that happened to the Super-K detector in the early 2000s. It's briefly mentioned here https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Super-Kamiokande#History

The detector does not "look" in any direction, it is in no way "pointed" at the sun. It records the direction of all events that occur within its volume. But once recorded they com…

In principle yes....although the specifics of the physics involved kinda make the question itself not well posed. There is no hard boundary to the core of the sun. The "core" is by…

This article is quite old but a more recent measurement from the same experiment (Super-K) used a 1600 day dataset. Of that 1600 days of exposure 860 "days" were nights. So it's pr…

The process behind this measurement is that the neutrino hits an electron in the detector. That electron will (with relatively high likelihood) travel in the same direction as the …

It's a bit of a subtle point but Majorana anti-neutrinos are still right handed chiral particle and a Majorana neutrino is still a left handed particle. So any particle-antiparticl…

I used Shankar's quantum mechanics book for my first course of quntum in undergraduate. And his "Basic Training In Math" as a supplementary book in another course. And I recall bei…

I'm not sure I understand what you mean when you say there's no currying in common lisp? If you write functions that are curried then you'll have currying. Am I missing something?