Neutrinos

Covering the 150 million km journey that a neutrino takes from the centre of the Sun to the Earth, and how we detect them. Don't forget to visit http://www.sciencemadefun.org.uk

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[rugsyofspurs]

@Nuker1337 he said MORE than 330 times, so he's still correct ahahha

[VanMedia]

@MantaxxatnaM it hasn't been proven. it's still being tested. they mostly have an error in the system which is why it is faster than light. see, the main problem is that scientists tested the speed of a neutrino from the sun and it travels slower than light from the earth to the sun. however, in CERN they made their own neutrino and it traveled fast, so most likely it is an error.

[GeorgeNada1]

is it just me, or does the speed of light seem slow...?

[medexamtoolsdotcom]

@ShesGoinBald 3500 light years? No, not that much. There's something like a 50% chance of being absorbed by 1 light year so 3500 would be a sure thing, basically equivalent to flipping a coin with 50% probability heads 3500 times and it NOT being heads every time, or a radioactive atom with a half-life of a year NOT lasting 35 centuries, or me buying a stock and it crashing and losing all my money. All these things are so certain one need not consider the alternative possibilities.

[medexamtoolsdotcom]

@rugsyofspurs Unfortunately he ALSO said "NUCULAR fusion".

[TheOriginalRadlam]

@VanMedia A possible reason for the result from light and nutrinos from the Sun is the gravity effecting the particles, as light is a transverse wave, gravity has either no or little effect on it, where as a nutrino, however small, has matter which is affected; and with the tiny 3/ms gap between nutrinos and light in the project between America and Switzerland, gravity would be the defining factor.

[CACBCCCU]

I suppose I oversimplified a bit by saying quarks seem largely vacuous to neutrinos. Beyond being a matter of neutrino position and size, it also seems it's a matter of finding a set of quarks that are in a proper configuration state for absorbing the neutrino's energy. That's my take on it anyway.

[CACBCCCU]

Apparently neutrinos have an extremely small cross-section that can be reduced further with increases in energy; they're so small that any nucleus appears vacuous to them, even quarks seem largely vacuous to them.

[2stroke4Me]

Glowing ball of plasma?

[pbobassist]

huge burning ball of plasma *

[Dark4156k]

Yay the philipines

[kidd0RIG12]

is this stuff accurate?