MrPhysicsAug 31, 2023
Paul Houle

💥 The first observation of neutrinos at CERN's Large Hadron Collider

https://phys.org/news/2023-08-neutrinos-cern-large-hadron-collider.html

#physics #lhc #neutrinos #science #research

The first observation of neutrinos at CERN's Large Hadron Collider

Neutrinos are tiny and neutrally charged particles accounted for by the Standard Model of particle physics. While they are estimated to be some of the most abundant particles in the universe, observing them has so far proved to be highly challenging, as the probability that they will interact with other matter is low.

Phys.org
Aug 31, 2023 at 6:06pmYOShInOn
Show threadSLSAug 31, 2023
@UP8 wishing I had learned more about physics
Show threadPaul HouleAug 31, 2023

@SabiLewSounds I studied condensed matter theory which had me programming Java before Java 1.0, it is now Java 21 and I am still doing it.

Neutrinos are the most exciting mystery in physics because we have no idea what gives them mass, the answer to that might be the answer to dark matter and/or the answer to why we see so much matter but no anti-matter.

Show threadSLSAug 31, 2023
@UP8 the first time I heard about dark matter I felt like the universe made sense 🤣 so much sense... So much is immeasurable and I just find that beautiful
Show threadPaul HouleAug 31, 2023

@SabiLewSounds when I first saw https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Galaxy_rotation_curve I thought “there is a galaxy with dark matter in it”, today I think “there is a dark matter with a galaxy in it”

The James Webb Space Telescope has started a crisis in cosmology: there was some reason to be concerned before but now it looks like things happened much faster in the early universe than we expected; will be fun to see what gets discovered.

Galaxy rotation curve - Wikipedia

Show threadSLSAug 31, 2023
@UP8 wow no way! I barely know much about the start of it all, just a general idea of the big bang theory. I hope to som day have the spoons to learn about it.