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Comment How did the even get approved by the mods? (Score 1) 384

by Chris Greenley (#46874401) Attached to: How Concrete Contributed To the Downfall of the Roman Empire
The article is shitty and the summary is shittier. The article states that the fall of the Roman REPUBLIC may have been influenced by the use of concrete and then for some reason goes on to talk about how lead poisoning may not have been a significant factor in the fall of the Roman EMPIRE, a totally unrelated topic. Then the summary goes and conflates the two and leads to an incredibly misstated post.

Submission + - Muon neutrino to electron neutrino oscillation conclusively shown

Submitted by Chris Greenley
Chris Greenley writes: The T2K long baseline neutrino experiment in Japan has just announced conclusive evidence for electron to muon neutrino oscillation at the 7.5 sigma level. (The level needed for discovery is 5 sigma.) This experiment generates a focused beam of electron neutrinos using an accelerating in the J-PARC facility north of Tokyo which is aimed at the massive Super-Kamiokande detector 295 KM (185 miles) away near the west coast of Japan.

This T2K observation is the first of its kind in that an explicit appearance of a unique flavor of neutrino at a detection point is unequivocally observed from a different flavor of neutrino at its production point.

This result clears the way for CP-violation neutrino studies which could show that "regular" neutrinos act differently than their antimatter counterparts, a phenomenon that so far has only been observed in quarks. If neutrino CP-violation is found, it could explain why there is such a large predominance of matter over antimatter in the universe.

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