Neutrino's...

[swerve]

Are interesting...

Some have theorized that they make up MOST of the 90% of mass that is not currently accounted for in our universe (there are 100 million Neutrino's for EVERY atom)...

They can be detected in supernova's, solar burst, and some suspect that they are a central part of the "big bang theory" (for those who believe life was an accident)...

They can pass through mass with little to no resistance -- meaning that they can LITERALLY pass through the ENTIRE earth -- in one end -- out the other...

They have an UNCANNY quality -- although they are not affected my magnetism -- they can SOMEHOW be ACCELERATED in an accelerator and when colliding with Chlorine, they can randomly change the chlorine atoms up to the NEXT element on the Periodic Table, Argon...

I'm not a scientist or anything lol -- but stuff like this REALLY INTERESTS me...

It is AMAZING that constitutes SO MUCH of our universe -- is SO LITTLE understood...

HOPEFULLY, someone here on JUB IS a scientist -- and can elaborate further...

OR -- just post some more FUN FACTS or INTERESTING THEORIES about them...

I just know enough to know I'm interested...

 

[gingentleman]

I am betting our collective future understanding of neutrinos will be directly related to future methods of travel...either teleportation or ftl drive technology. And before anybody pooh-poohs my theory...think about the technology we have in this moment compared to 125 years ago...

 

[swerve]

^And I was worried that the ONLY people that could AFFORD to study neutrinos...

Would be looking at WEAPONRY...

I LIKE the travel idea though!!!

 

[cityboy-stl]

I am now certain I had an ex-boyfriend that was a neutrino.

 

[chrisw87]

^And I was worried that the ONLY people that could AFFORD to study neutrinos...

Would be looking at WEAPONRY...

I LIKE the travel idea though!!!

I would say alot of innovation and such would be derived from defence though. In the similar way that most mainstream automotive innovations are derived from racing.

Maybe they need to research neutrino's for F1 racing haha.


Science is fantastic, I can't believe people have no interest in it sometimes though. When I was a child I was obsessed with reading about the big lab in Los Alamos, all the amazing things they did, especially when I was young reading about their research into dark matter.

... and when they lost a magnet only capable of being carried by a maaahhhooosive truck

 

[star-warrior]

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Neutrino

Most neutrinos passing through the Earth emanate from the Sun. Every second, in the region of the Earth, about 65 billion (6.5×10^10) solar neutrinos pass through every square centimeter perpendicular to the direction of the sun.

Good thing they don't interact, otherwise it'd be like facing a barrage of gatling guns.

 

[oakpope]

That is not neutrino that makes up 90% of the matter of the universe.

The vast majority of the mass, as calculated by gravity effects, is unkown and is called Dark Matter and if I remember correctly accounts for 70-80% of the universe matter.

Read more on wikipedia if you will, the articles are pretty interesting.

My nuclear physicist studies rise to the surface occasionally, but I don't work in this field since

 

[chrisw87]

physics confuses me, I was never good at math. The mysteries of the universe will stay as such for me unless someone can make a fantastic lamens documentary with lots of moving pictures

 

[gsdx]

Samantha Carter: Normally neutrinos pass right through ordinary matter, no matter how dense. I mean, something like five hundred million billion just passed through you.
Jack O'Neill: No matter how dense.

Jack O'Neill: Hey, if you'd been listening, you'd know that Nintendos pass through everything.
Dr. Daniel Jackson: I heard.
Jack O'Neill: Everything.

("Stargate SG-1: Crystal Skull (#3.21)")

 

[oakpope]

physics confuses me, I was never good at math.

Physics principles don't need math to be understood. Bad physics teachers rely on math to teach because it's easier for them than to make their students experiment and try to think, analyse and understand what's going on.
I was making school project about fission and nuclear energy at the age of 12 because the principles are easy to understand, no need to know advanced math.

When someone knows a field very well it is easier for her/him to tell things simply, when someone knows or understands little, it's easier to make things more difficult to understand than they shoud be, so that no one sees through her/his shortcomings