Physicists detect signs of neutrinos at Large Hadron Collider
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Re: Physicists detect signs of neutrinos at Large Hadron Collider
#2It’s always bugged me that science claims there are trillions of neutrinos going through me, yet can hardly detect them with a nearly trillion dollar machine and a doctorate. Then there’s dark energy, which just seems like a lame excuse for saying “we don’t know”.
Nobody says what goes through my body but me!
(I’m being funny, y’all! Happy holidays!)
Re: Physicists detect signs of neutrinos at Large Hadron Collider
#3It’s always bugged me that science claims there are trillions of neutrinos going through me, yet can hardly detect them with a nearly trillion dollar machine and a doctorate. Then there’s dark energy, which just seems like a lame excuse for saying “we don’t know”. Nobody says what goes through my body but me! (I’m being funny, y’all! Happy holidays!)
The trillions of neutrinos going through you are low energy neutrinos from the sun. We've been able to detect those for decades, and with only moderately pricey technology.
The neutrinos in the article are high energy ones produced from proton collisions at the LHC. Although we have ways of producing neutrino beams from accelerators, the LHC is not set up for that, and these neutrinos are sparsely produced, incidentally to the high energy hadron collisions being produced there.
In any case, the LHC cost at least an order of magnitude less than a trillion dollars. And the FASER experiment in particular which runs parasitically on existing LHC infrastructure runs on a shoestring budget, largely privately funded.
Re: Physicists detect signs of neutrinos at Large Hadron Collider
#4It’s always bugged me that science claims there are trillions of neutrinos going through me, yet can hardly detect them with a nearly trillion dollar machine and a doctorate. Then there’s dark energy, which just seems like a lame excuse for saying “we don’t know”. Nobody says what goes through my body but me! (I’m being funny, y’all! Happy holidays!)
It’s interesting that you class dark energy (the thing accelerating universal expansion) as, “We don’t know,” but don’t put gravity into that same category. They are both aspects of general relativity that we have failed to integrate with our other most successful fundamental theories, but if you asked an average person on the street I’m sure they’d put them in very different categories of understanding, as you did.
Re: Physicists detect signs of neutrinos at Large Hadron Collider
#5It’s always bugged me that science claims there are trillions of neutrinos going through me, yet can hardly detect them with a nearly trillion dollar machine and a doctorate. Then there’s dark energy, which just seems like a lame excuse for saying “we don’t know”. Nobody says what goes through my body but me! (I’m being funny, y’all! Happy holidays!)
It’s interesting that you class dark energy (the thing accelerating universal expansion) as, “We don’t know,” but don’t put gravity into that same category. They are both aspects of general relativity that we have failed to integrate with our other most successful fundamental theories, but if you asked an average person on the street I’m sure they’d put them in very different categories of understanding, as you did.
The thing with gravity is that it is kind of easy to detect, even for a layperson, while dark energy and dark matter haven't been detected at all, by anyone, but only used as mathematical devices to make indirect measurements of large scale structures align with our models.
So, it isn't only the "average man on the street" that thinks there are good reasons to put them in very different categories of understanding.
Re: Physicists detect signs of neutrinos at Large Hadron Collider
#6It’s always bugged me that science claims there are trillions of neutrinos going through me, yet can hardly detect them with a nearly trillion dollar machine and a doctorate. Then there’s dark energy, which just seems like a lame excuse for saying “we don’t know”. Nobody says what goes through my body but me! (I’m being funny, y’all! Happy holidays!)
>Nobody says what goes through my body but me!
That's selfish! Mandatory trip to Chernobyl!
Re: Physicists detect signs of neutrinos at Large Hadron Collider
#7What happens if a neutrino interacts with something?
Re: Physicists detect signs of neutrinos at Large Hadron Collider
#8It’s always bugged me that science claims there are trillions of neutrinos going through me, yet can hardly detect them with a nearly trillion dollar machine and a doctorate. Then there’s dark energy, which just seems like a lame excuse for saying “we don’t know”. Nobody says what goes through my body but me! (I’m being funny, y’all! Happy holidays!)
The trillions of neutrinos going through you are low energy neutrinos from the sun. We've been able to detect those for decades, and with only moderately pricey technology. The neutrinos in the article are high energy ones produced from proton collisions at the LHC. Although we have ways of producing neutrino beams from accelerators, the LHC is not set up for that, and these neutrinos are sparsely produced, incidenta…
Noob qestion, but I am interested: um "So why the heck they doesn't 'fusion'-react their stuff in a hu liquid?", and why isn't there an energy-surplus gotten from 'friction' ?
And yes, way back i read something about the (reversed) bernoulli-effect.
Any help ?
Re: Physicists detect signs of neutrinos at Large Hadron Collider
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Re: Physicists detect signs of neutrinos at Large Hadron Collider
#10Earlier quoted context omitted.
The trillions of neutrinos going through you are low energy neutrinos from the sun. We've been able to detect those for decades, and with only moderately pricey technology. The neutrinos in the article are high energy ones produced from proton collisions at the LHC. Although we have ways of producing neutrino beams from accelerators, the LHC is not set up for that, and these neutrinos are sparsely produced, incidenta…
Noob qestion, but I am interested: um "So why the heck they doesn't 'fusion'-react their stuff in a hu liquid?", and why isn't there an energy-surplus gotten from 'friction' ? And yes, way back i read something about the (reversed) bernoulli-effect. Any help ?
Hmmm... in good faith I'm not able to parse your question. I don't know what hu liquid is, or what you mean by "their stuff". Maybe you could try again.