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- From: sichase@csa1.lbl.gov (SCOTT I CHASE)
- Newsgroups: sci.physics
- Subject: Re: Compelling Mysteries (II)
- Date: 10 Nov 1992 11:34 PST
- Organization: Lawrence Berkeley Laboratory - Berkeley, CA, USA
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- In article <1992Nov10.151421.11274@murdoch.acc.Virginia.EDU>, crb7q@kelvin.seas.Virginia.EDU (Cameron Randale Bass) writes...
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- > d) the solar neutrino 'problem'. Is it a problem? Do we believe
- > the calculations. Why do no two experiments seem to tell us the same
- > thing? Is something being left out of the 'standard model' of the
- > sun? How much *is* gallium chloride by the ton?
-
- You can look up the price of gallium in the CRC. It's expensive - so much
- so that it delayed these experiments for quite a few years. The different
- experiments are not, as you seem to imply, inconsistent. They tell us different
- things because they are looking at different parts of the neutrino spectrum,
- and because the statistics are VERY poor. But it is possible to construct
- a neutrino spectrum consistent with all measurements to date, within
- statistical erro bars. Unfortunately, this result does not allow us to
- distinguish clearly between different physics senarios.
-
- -Scott
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- Scott I. Chase "It is not a simple life to be a single cell,
- SICHASE@CSA2.LBL.GOV although I have no right to say so, having
- been a single cell so long ago myself that I
- have no memory at all of that stage of my
- life." - Lewis Thomas
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