cross-posted from: programming.dev/post/36507288
Are they going to find out they’ve mutated again?
China turns on giant neutrino detector that took a decade to build
Submitted 7 months ago by Pro@programming.dev to technology@lemmy.world
https://english.cas.cn/newsroom/cas_media/202508/t20250827_1051466.shtml
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geomela@lemmy.world 7 months ago
FalseTautology@lemmy.zip 7 months ago
I’m already disappointed that it didn’t tear a hole in time space, not just destroying this reality but also making it so that it never existed and never can exist. A bit of a missed opportunity if I’m going to be honest. Maybe next time chums.
Soleos@lemmy.world 7 months ago
Well it’s a lab in China, and neutrinos are small, like viruses. So clearly they’re developing a quantum virus to destabilize the west. Come December, we will see the first cases of the ominous QUOVID-25.
_stranger_@lemmy.world 7 months ago
Congrats, you are now on a list, admittedly made by an idiot, but a list none the less.
Regrettable_incident@lemmy.world 7 months ago
I can do that with a fart.
RizzRustbolt@lemmy.world 7 months ago
You mean a false vacuum collapse?
Chronographs@lemmy.zip 7 months ago
Isn’t it just bunch of water with some camera pointed at it
saddlebag@lemmy.world 7 months ago
Trump turns off a completed wind farm while China completes decade long research platform. We are watching the seismic shift of technological progress from east to west in realtime.
Lucidlethargy@sh.itjust.works 7 months ago
Trump really has fucked everything up. America is falling.
panda_abyss@lemmy.ca 7 months ago
Aren’t neutrinos very small? They might have a tough time looking for the giant ones.
Joking aside, it’s good to see progress like this, hopefully they share their findings openly.
qarbone@lemmy.world 7 months ago
“I only want your biggest, burliest neutrinos!”
Jerkface@lemmy.world 7 months ago
“Neutrino sellerYou can’t handle my neutrinos, traveller!”
makyo@lemmy.world 7 months ago
That smile is going to be wiped right off your face when China actually finds a giant neutrino
echodot@feddit.uk 7 months ago
Isn’t giant neutrinos the thing that destroyed earth in 2012?
panda_abyss@lemmy.ca 7 months ago
sigh time to rewrites the standard model of quantum physics again…
Buffalox@lemmy.world 7 months ago
Very impressive. 👍 😀
RizzRustbolt@lemmy.world 7 months ago
How to lock photons into their particle state and then manipulate them.
pepperprepper@lemmy.world 7 months ago
Any idea of what they are looking into? I always thought neutron detectors were for detection of nuclear activity.
k0e3@lemmy.ca 7 months ago
These are neutrino detectors, not neutron, so they won’t be looking for nuclear activity with it, right?
Buffalox@lemmy.world 7 months ago
No sorry, I have to wait for the video. 👍
liquefy4931@lemmy.world 7 months 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!
Damage@feddit.it 7 months ago
I read this in the voice of Todd from Project Farm
altphoto@lemmy.today 7 months ago
Whenever you hear that name, think about Chinese spies in big companies stealing secrets. A few other such places too.
krunklom@lemmy.zip 7 months ago
Wat