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

• liquefy4931@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ 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 ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

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

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  • sem@lemmy.blahaj.zone ⁨20⁩ ⁨hours⁩ 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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  • swelter_spark@reddthat.com ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

    That’s exciting!

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  • richardwallass@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

    I can feel all those neutrinos on my body

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• k0e3@lemmy.ca ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ 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 ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ 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 ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

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

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