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But one key question that struck me and has stuck with me ever since: How do the hell they keep background radiation away? I mean all things produce background radiation, even us! Do they completely eliminate it or do they reduce them to the point where they know that no background radiation is coming from the universe and atmosphere but only from the ground and rocks surrounding the experiment?
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AFAIK, it just goes undetected. The Sudbury Experiment was the first one that could even detect all 3 types of neutrino. The neutrinos are either solar (electron) neutrinos, or ones created by the interaction of cosmic rays with the atmosphere. The exeriment was very deep underground to minimize the background noise.
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Another question, how did this guy or scientist keep from going nuts doing the same thing over and over doing the repitition stuff for a long time? I would go nuts in a month.
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Yeah, me too. Lol, I guess it takes a certain type to do this work.
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Another question: If the neutrino do have mass, then why do they travel at speed of light? If they do not but close enough to it, then why not according to the relativity equations, they do not get bigger as they go faster?
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don't travel at then speed of light! That's what's so remarkable. It also means that they are sensitive to time. As to the mass question, maybe the flavor shifts have something to do with it, I don't know. But traveling less than C eliminates any infinities.
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All this proves to me that with each model we generate, we only get a bigger glimpse of the picture but necessarily the whole or otherwise we violate the infinity principle. If you get the whole picture of the universe, then you are actually repudiating the infinity principle.
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And this is the way it's always been. What's really interesting to me is that this is the first real solid evidence of a problem in the Standard Model.