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Low-Energy Neutrinos Detected In Real Time
Roland Piquepaille sends us word of first results from the Borexino detector in Italy, where an international team of more than 100 researchers has detected low-energy solar neutrinos for the first time. These results confirm recent "theories about the nature of neutrinos and the inner workings of the sun and other stars." In particular, it's now almost certain that neutrinos oscillate among three types, namely electron, muon, and tau neutrinos. The Borexino detector lies almost a mile underground near L'Aquila, Italy, and it sets new standards in the purity of the materials used in its construction.
Neutrinos - the cornerstone of *any* nutritious breakfast! (Man, this cereal goes *right* through me!)
Homer: Mmmmm... elementary particles!
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It's almost as if the world's largest particle physics laboratory had something to do with creating it.
Spooky!
Al Gore INVENTED particles.
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Today's weather forcast calls for airborne swine throughout the country, and a blizzard localized to Hell.
In other news, CERN scientists stated that they would have detected 90% more neutrinos, except some jackass was playing an MP3 on the data collecting computer, which happened to be running Vista.