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The Skeptics Guide #939 - Jul 8 2023

The Skeptics' Guide to the Universe

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The Physics of Neutrinos

The neutrino telescope is a collaboration of hundreds of scientists from 50 institutions within 14 countries all over the place. It literally uses the ice that's ubiquitous in Antarctica, and also deeply embedded within that ice are arrays of basketball sized optical sensors. A collision produces charged particles that actually exceed the speed of light. The authors say it provides strong evidence that this excess of high energy neutrinos has been confirmed by this machine language method.

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