• Power of the Sun: Elusive Solar Neutrinos Detected, a Cosmic First
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[URL]http://www.space.com/26959-solar-neutrinos-sun-fusion-detection.html[/URL] [QUOTE]Tiny particles forged in the heart of the sun have been detected for the first time, offering scientists a glimpse into the nuclear fusion core of our closest star.The subatomic particles, called neutrinos, are hallmarks of the dominant fusion process inside the sun. Created in the first step of a reaction sequence responsible for the majority of the sun's fusion, the particles have long eluded detection. Now, an international collaboration of more than 100 scientists working with the [URL="http://www.space.com/13747-neutrinos-particles-sun-borexino.html"]Borexino detector in Italy[/URL] has made the first measurements of these elusive particles. The new findings "allow us to look at the majority of the [URL="http://www.space.com/26956-proton-fusion-sun-power-source-infographic.html"]fusion reactions in the sun's core[/URL] in real time, as they happen, minus an eight-minute delay for travel to Earth," Andrea Pocar, of the University of Massachusetts and part of the Borexino team, told Space.com by email. "The measurement allows us to strongly confirm the model of the sun, and to take a 'neutrino photograph'." [[URL="http://www.space.com/15706-sun-quiz-solar-showdown.html"]The Sun Quiz: Do You Know Our Star?[/URL]][/QUOTE] these comments :v: [IMG]http://i.imgur.com/aLKGbO8.png[/IMG]
The neutrinos have mutated!
[QUOTE=MadBomber;45847186]The neutrinos have mutated![/QUOTE] Goddamn you. I wanted to be the first one.
Is this article wrong? I thought neutrinos were first detected quite a few years back.
[QUOTE=DerpO_o;45851082]Is this article wrong? I thought neutrinos were first detected quite a few years back.[/QUOTE] From a very cursory look, I think it's that they've detected neutrinos that were generated by the sun, rather than neutrinos that they'd created in a lab. Although I don't know really, because I know there are loads of other neutrino detectors - and the wikipedia article for Borexino says they detected Neutrinos in 2007... maybe they only just published. Who knows.
Lol the article title is a straight-up falsehood, and the article even kinda points that out: [quote]Power of the Sun: Elusive Solar Neutrinos Detected, a Cosmic First[/quote] [quote]Combined with previous solar neutrino measurements, the Borexino experiment strongly confirmed the nature of the particles.[/quote] We've been detecting solar neutrinos since the 60s so I have no idea what the fuck this article is talking about. Science journalism exemplified.
Feel free to close the thread in that case.
[QUOTE=MadBomber;45847186]The neutrinos have mutated![/QUOTE] And they're heating up the planet! tequila!
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