From: Robert J. Bradbury (bradbury@aeiveos.com)
Date: Tue Jun 19 2001 - 15:55:51 MDT
As reported in Science Now:
Missing Neutrino Mystery Solved
http://sciencenow.sciencemag.org/cgi/content/full/2001/618/4
It is now almost a certain fact that neutrinos have mass
and neutrino types (electron, muon, tau) can change their
into one antoher.
The best part of the article is how emotional this is making
scientists such as John Bahcall (a leading astrophysicist):
> "I'm thrilled by the precision of the result; I'm thrilled it agrees
> with the solar model calculations; I'm thrilled we have an answer
> to the problem," says John Bahcall, a physicist at the Institute
> for Advanced Study in Princeton, who is not a member of the SNO
> team. "I'm thrilled like someone who was accused of a heinous crime,
> always insisted on his innocence, and now a new DNA technique proves it."
One has to sit back and smile.
Robert
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