Welcome to the new universe

[Bill Mattocks]

The so-called 'Standard Model' of Particle Physics is about to be stood on its ear.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Standard_Model

Symmetry works differently for quarks than for leptons, mainly because the Standard Model predicts that neutrinos are massless. However, it was recently found that neutrinos have small masses and oscillate between flavors, signaling that the conservation of lepton family number is violated.

By this:

http://articles.latimes.com/2010/may/31/science/la-sci-neutrino-20100601

May 31, 2010|By Thomas H. Maugh II, Los Angeles TimesFor the first time, physicists have confirmed that certain subatomic particles have mass and that they could account for a large proportion of matter in the universe, the so-called dark matter that astrophysicists know is there but that cannot be observed by conventional means.

Clams got legs, and neutrinos got mass. This is a whole new ballgame.

 

[Empty Hands]

Awesome. That would make sense in terms of dark matter, since neutrinos are supposed to be very numerous.

 

[shesulsa]

Clams got legs, and neutrinos got mass. This is a whole new ballgame.

Sure is! I wonder what we will find when we can develop equipment to better observe neutrinos ... and I wonder what else is out there?

 

[elder999]

http://articles.latimes.com/2010/may/31/science/la-sci-neutrino-20100601



Clams got legs, and neutrinos got mass. This is a whole new ballgame.

Confirmation is all, but the indications have been there for years, and it's widely been assumed to be so

http://focus.aps.org/story/v2/st10

The Standard Model really just gets "extended" by this; not particularly daunting, but what it leads to........

Good find, Bill! :asian:

 

[Cryozombie]

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