From: YKhan on
eric gisse wrote:
> rabid_fan wrote:
>
>> Neutrino oscillations were directly observed for the first time.
>> This observation implies that neutrinos have mass and it thus
>> contradicts the Standard Model.
>>
>> http://press.web.cern.ch/press/PressReleases/Releases2010/PR08.10E.html
>
> Welcome to 50 years ago. Neutrino oscillations aren't exactly 'recent' news.

The difference is that it was captured in transition for the first
time ever.

Yousuf Khan
From: eric gisse on
YKhan wrote:

> eric gisse wrote:
>> rabid_fan wrote:
>>
>>> Neutrino oscillations were directly observed for the first time.
>>> This observation implies that neutrinos have mass and it thus
>>> contradicts the Standard Model.
>>>
>>> http://press.web.cern.ch/press/PressReleases/Releases2010/PR08.10E.html
>>
>> Welcome to 50 years ago. Neutrino oscillations aren't exactly 'recent'
>> news.
>
> The difference is that it was captured in transition for the first
> time ever.
>
> Yousuf Khan

I could have sworn that oscillations have been observed in Earthbound
experiments in neutrino beamlines...



From: rick_s on
In article <4C044F56.A2ED5180(a)hate.spam.net>, UncleAl0(a)hate.spam.net
says...
>
>
>rabid_fan wrote:
>>
>> Neutrino oscillations were directly observed for the first time.
>> This observation implies that neutrinos have mass and it thus
>> contradicts the Standard Model.
>>
>> http://press.web.cern.ch/press/PressReleases/Releases2010/PR08.10E.html
>
>The Standard Model is massless. As mass apparently exists in some
>abundance, the Standard Model was wrong at birth. The LHC quest to
>"discover" the Higgs boson is looking for a reptile in Iceland.
>
>The only reptile in Iceland is a rock band.
>
>--
>Uncle Al
>http://www.mazepath.com/uncleal/
> (Toxic URL! Unsafe for children and most mammals)
>http://www.mazepath.com/uncleal/qz4.htm


I appologize Al, I see you are not completely stupid.

From: rick_s on
In article
<d34c07b3-b50d-4dc6-bcb9-195891ec9ca5(a)n20g2000prh.googlegroups.com>,
yjkhan(a)gmail.com says...
>
>
>rabid_fan wrote:
>> Neutrino oscillations were directly observed for the first time.
>> This observation implies that neutrinos have mass and it thus
>> contradicts the Standard Model.
>>
>> http://press.web.cern.ch/press/PressReleases/Releases2010/PR08.10E.html
>
>Well then, welcome to the new Standard Model?
>
> Yousuf Khan

Ow, I just got a neutrino in my eye from CERN. I am going to sue them for a
squillion dollars.

From: Sam Wormley on
On 6/3/10 1:22 PM, rick_s wrote:

> Ow, I just got a neutrino in my eye from CERN. I am going to sue them for a
> squillion dollars.
>

I doubt it--you'd have to pay an attorney.