A major physics experiment just detected a particle that shouldn't exist

[Judi Lynn]

There's something strange happening in the universe that is making humanity's most cutting-edge physics experiments contradict one another.
Jun.03.2018 / 12:29 PM ET / Source: Live Science

Scientists have produced the firmest evidence yet of so-called sterile neutrinos, mysterious particles that pass through matter without interacting with it at all.

The first hints these elusive particles turned up decades ago. But after years of dedicated searches, scientists have been unable to find any other evidence for them, with many experiments contradicting those old results. These new results now leave scientists with two robust experiments that seem to demonstrate the existence of sterile neutrinos, even as other experiments continue to suggest sterile neutrinos don't exist at all.

That means there's something strange happening in the universe that is making humanity's most cutting-edge physics experiments contradict one another.

STERILE NEUTRINOS

Back in the mid-1990s, the Liquid Scintillator Neutrino Detector (LSND), an experiment at Los Alamos National Laboratory in New Mexico, found evidence of a mysterious new particle: a "sterile neutrino" that passes through matter without interacting with it. But that result couldn't be replicated; other experiments simply couldn't find any trace of the hidden particle. So the result was set aside.

More:
https://www.nbcnews.com/mach/science/major-physics-experiment-just-detected-particle-shouldn-t-exist-ncna879616

[dhill926]

1. well....Sterile Neutrinos...

would be a great band name....

[dameatball]

2. Yes, but Trump would want to ban any group whose name ends in "inos."

[saidsimplesimon]

3. How about Fertile N....?

As always, many thanks to Judi for sharing science and other interesting updates.

From Shakespeare, Hamlet to Horatio

"There are more things in heaven and earth, Horatio, than are dreamt of in your philosophy."

[CatMor]

4. At first I thought this was going to be a joke meaning it was trump

other than that it is hard to comprehend.

[exboyfil]

5. I just watched a lecture on this topic yesterday

from The Great Courses. It is Lecture 11 - How Neutrino Identity Oscillates from the series

The Theory of Everything: The Quest to Explain All Reality

https://www.thegreatcourses.com/courses/the-theory-of-everything-the-quest-to-explain-all-reality.html

I get the courses through my library's Hoopla.

[Duppers]

6. Wow.