[MD] Neutrinomarsha

[MarshaV]

Ooops, that should be 'spin', not 'top spin'.  


On Apr 26, 2010, at 6:25 AM, MarshaV wrote:

> 
> Adrie, 
> 
> I had heard that the proof, at Fermilab, for the top quark came from six 
> of six million trials.  I also heard that the existence of the Higgs boson 
> was hypothesized because of the appearance of unwanted zeros in 
> certain calculations..  It is not comforting be at the mercy of such 
> hearsay, but at the same time I can sense the excitement.  
> 
> While I like the excitement, I am very skeptical (rightfully) because I've
> also been exposed to lectures, interviews and articles on the
> 'science wars' of the 1990's.  Add to this how horrifying it is to hear 
> that the calculation for top spin is not just mathematics but something 
> "real".  Real?  In what sense real?   
> 
> Looking at the bubbles in my half-filled teacup.  It seems like a tiny 
> cauldron of chaotic ideas.  It might not be so farfetched to predict that 
> there are some big changes coming, a new world-view even.  
> 
> 
> Marsha, 
>     the knower of nothing.    
> 
> 
> 
> 
> On Apr 25, 2010, at 4:30 PM, Fam. Kintziger-Karaca wrote:
> 
>> hi, Marsha
>> 
>> bubble chambers can be as tiny as a teacup.
>> they use boiling water to make the path of the partikel visible.
>> 
>> The Kamiokande-experiment uses extremely purified water to do the same.
>> And the scale of the detektor is very extreme.
>> 
>> They had a very big accident with imploding Pmt's, after witch the reactor was 
>> downscaled, the price was too high to repair.
>> 
>> It is used now in a lesser form, less Pmt's.But it still works.
>> 
> 
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