From: eric gisse on
Yousuf Khan wrote:

> This could lead to the discovery of the "sterile" neutrino. A
> hypothetical version of the neutrino which is much more massive than
> regular neutrinos, and travel at sub-relativistic speeds. Thus they
> could be good candidates for Dark Matter on their own, and they are even
> required by some modified gravity theories to make the equations work out.

I've suspected there's more than 3 neutrinos, purely on the basis of
analysis of WMAP data. Interesting.

>
> Yousuf Khan
>
> ***
> Neutrino finding could force physicists to rethink the foundations of
> particle physics | R&D Mag
> "The new results, announced in June and submitted to the journal
> Physical Review Letters, appears to be one of the first observed
> violations of CP symmetry: the theory that matter and antimatter should
> behave in the same way. CP symmetry violation has been seen before in
> quarks, but never in neutrinos or electrons.
>
> The finding could also force physicists to revise their Standard Model,
> which catalogs all of the known particles that make up matter. The model
> now posits only three flavors of neutrino, but a fourth (or fifth or
> sixth) may be necessary to explain the new results."
> http://www.rdmag.com/News/2010/08/General-Science-Physics-Neutrino-
Finding-Could-Force-Physicists-To-Rethink-The-Foundations-Of-Particle-
Physics/

From: Androcles on

"Igor" <thoovler(a)excite.com> wrote in message
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On Aug 13, 12:36 am, Raymond Yohros <b...(a)birdband.net> wrote:
> On Aug 12, 11:27 pm, Yousuf Khan <bbb...(a)yahoo.com> wrote:
>
> > This could lead to the discovery of the "sterile" neutrino. A
> > hypothetical version of the neutrino which is much more massive than
> > regular neutrinos, and travel at sub-relativistic speeds. Thus they
> > could be good candidates for Dark Matter on their own, and they are even
> > required by some modified gravity theories to make the equations work
> > out.
>
> > Yousuf Khan
>
> behold of the neutrino
> the holly grail in particle physics

I used to know Holly Grail. She was a good old girl.
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You are thinking of Holly Greyle, the sterile old neutered whoreticulturist.