China's Ultra-large Neutrino Detector Starts Operation to Find "ghost particles"----Chinese Academy of Sciences
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  • saddlebag@lemmy.worldEnglish
    30·
    23 hours 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.

  • panda_abyss@lemmy.caEnglish
    55·
    1 day 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.

  • altphoto@lemmy.todayEnglish
    18·
    9 hours ago

    Whenever you hear that name, think about Chinese spies in big companies stealing secrets. A few other such places too.

  • FalseTautology@lemmy.zipEnglish
    11·
    21 hours 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.

    • pepperprepper@lemmy.worldEnglish
      6·
      1 day ago

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

      • k0e3@lemmy.caEnglish
        4·
        10 hours ago

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

        • BussyCat@lemmy.worldEnglish
          2·
          9 hours 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

      • liquefy4931@lemmy.worldEnglish
        18·
        24 hours 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.
        • 1021 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!