On Aug 13, 12:25 pm, eric gisse <
jowr.pi.nos...@gmail.com> wrote:
> 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.
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> > Yousuf Khan
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> > ***
> > 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.
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> > 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/
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(:-)
and i thought that Gisse ( &(CO.) knows the
'standard model '......
.
good enough to be a teacher of physics
or even a moderator here ....
Y.P
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