There is Neutrino news (thanks JM) in the Nobel Intent journal at Ars Technica. Posted by Chris Lee. Quote: A consequence of the known neutrino types having mass is that there must be a fourth type of neutrino, one that has even weaker interactions with ordinary matter and has been dubbed the sterile neutrino."
4 flavours of neutrino! One of them "sterile." And it might have mass which would mean a lot of matter we couldn't account for before. Plus a lot of other trippy stuff about the early universe. Cosmology hurts my head. There's more here at New Scientist Space dot com. Quote: [Alexander Kusenko] says the fact that sterile neutrinos could account for such a wide variety of astrophysical puzzles is a "highly non-trivial coincidence" and a "strong indication this may be right".
"sterile"; what a lame name for a flavour: obviously Murray Gell-Mann has
Not been consulted on this neologism.
posted by Von Bark
I think sterile neutrinos and dark energy should fight it out in a disco dancing death match. Winner take all.
The name was coined by Pontecorvo in his famous 1967 paper on neutrino oscillations. Sterility refers to the lack of coupling to other fields...
Lack of coupling makes one celibate.
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There is Neutrino news (thanks JM) in the Nobel Intent journal at Ars Technica. Posted by Chris Lee. Quote: 4 flavours of neutrino! One of them "sterile." And it might have mass which would mean a lot of matter we couldn't account for before. Plus a lot of other trippy stuff about the early universe. Cosmology hurts my head. There's more here at New Scientist Space dot com. Quote:
- sally mckay 3-30-2006 6:28 am
"sterile"; what a lame name for a flavour: obviously Murray Gell-Mann has
Not been consulted on this neologism.
posted by Von Bark
- sally mckay 3-30-2006 7:38 am
I think sterile neutrinos and dark energy should fight it out in a disco dancing death match. Winner take all.
- tino (guest) 3-30-2006 7:25 pm
The name was coined by Pontecorvo in his famous 1967 paper on neutrino oscillations. Sterility refers to the lack of coupling to other fields...
- anonymous (guest) 4-16-2006 4:41 pm
Lack of coupling makes one celibate.
- mark 4-16-2006 8:25 pm