Comment on China turns on giant neutrino detector that took a decade to build

Buffalox@lemmy.world ⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

• Damage@feddit.it ⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  I read this in the voice of Todd from Project Farm

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• pepperprepper@lemmy.world ⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  Any idea of what they are looking into? I always thought neutron detectors were for detection of nuclear activity.

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  • liquefy4931@lemmy.world ⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    Here are some neat neutrino facts:

    • Neutrinos are incredibly difficult to detect.
    • There are many neutrino sources, although supernovae may be the most prevalent with 99% of energy released as neutrinos vs 1% as visible light.
    • Our sun radiates about 2% of its energy as neutrinos.
    • They travel at the speed of light and rarely interact with normal matter. So rarely, in fact, that 99.99% of neutrinos would pass through a 10km-thick slab of lead.
    • Most neutrinos pass through the entire earth without hitting a thing.
    • 10^21^ nuetrinos pass through each 1" x 1" area of your body per second and, on average, you have a 25% lifetime chance of interaction with a neutrino particle.

    Who knows what will be discovered!

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    • NotMyOldRedditName@lemmy.world ⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      RFK Jr announces that the environmental hazard is being hit by a neutrino while in the womb!

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    • swelter_spark@reddthat.com ⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      That’s exciting!

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    • sem@lemmy.blahaj.zone ⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      Iirc there are some unsettled theoretical questions about the nature of reality and the cosmos that would possibly be answered by studying the behavior of neutrinos, but I forget what.

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    • richardwallass@sh.itjust.works ⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      I can feel all those neutrinos on my body

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  • k0e3@lemmy.ca ⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    These are neutrino detectors, not neutron, so they won’t be looking for nuclear activity with it, right?

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    • BussyCat@lemmy.world ⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      Nuclear reactions do involve neutrinos and antineutrinos but they aren’t super important for fission so I am assuming the decade long detector would be for something else

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  • Buffalox@lemmy.world ⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    No sorry, I have to wait for the video. 👍

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• RizzRustbolt@lemmy.world ⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  How to lock photons into their particle state and then manipulate them.

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