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Message 1174043 - Posted: 27 Nov 2011, 12:14:22 UTC - in response to Message 1173973.  
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BBC, yesterday said Large Hadron Collider was 80% complete. Since physics is not my strong suit, I've tried to understand this particle through the library and the Web but everything I find makes my eyes glaze over.

If you go to the Test4Theory@home message boards, Cafe,AltF2 you'll find an explanation by Peter Skands, a CERN physicist,about what this program is trying to do/ I am taking part in it.
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Message 1174044 - Posted: 27 Nov 2011, 12:18:17 UTC - in response to Message 1174000.  

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I think that the neutrino thing will be explained by what we know. The Higgs boson will also be confirmed. It may take a while and another boost in energy to find it. There is a lot for sure that we don't know, and we can only model reality by what we observe and interpret in terms of what we already "understand".

The neutrinos coming from SN1987A arrived simultaneously with the photons. How can this be if they have a mass?I am afraid we know very little about them.
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Message 1174125 - Posted: 27 Nov 2011, 19:29:28 UTC - in response to Message 1174043.  

BBC, yesterday said Large Hadron Collider was 80% complete. Since physics is not my strong suit, I've tried to understand this particle through the library and the Web but everything I find makes my eyes glaze over.

If you go to the Test4Theory@home message boards, Cafe,AltF2 you'll find an explanation by Peter Skands, a CERN physicist,about what this program is trying to do/ I am taking part in it.
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I will, and thanks, Tullio.
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Message 1174186 - Posted: 28 Nov 2011, 2:32:55 UTC - in response to Message 1174044.  

In fact we really know very little about the electron, though we control it quite well. Perhaps we know more about it than we do about a neutrino.
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Message 1174187 - Posted: 28 Nov 2011, 2:33:57 UTC - in response to Message 1174044.  

In fact we really know very little about the electron, though we control it quite well. We can also do chemistry quit nicely. Perhaps we know more about it than we do about a neutrino.
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Message 1174239 - Posted: 28 Nov 2011, 11:38:20 UTC - in response to Message 1174187.  
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In fact we really know very little about the electron, though we control it quite well. We can also do chemistry quit nicely. Perhaps we know more about it than we do about a neutrino.

At the Cavendish Laboratory, after J.J.Thomson had discovered the electron, a toast was made in 1897: To the electron, may it be useful to none!
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