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Bizarre Particles Keep Flying out of Antarctica's Ice, and They Might Shatter Modern Physics
scienticamerican.com ^ | 9/29/2018 | Rafi Letzier

Posted on 10/03/2018 9:43:57 PM PDT by bitt

Cosmic rays emanating from the south polar ice cap could lead to new physics

There’s something mysterious coming up from the frozen ground in Antarctica, and it could break physics as we know it.

Physicists don’t know what it is exactly. But they do know it’s some sort of cosmic ray—a high-energy particle that’s blasted its way through space, into the Earth, and back out again. But the particles physicists know about—the collection of particles that make up what scientists call the Standard Model (SM) of particle physics—shouldn’t be able to do that. Sure, there are low-energy neutrinos that can pierce through miles upon miles of rock unaffected. But high-energy neutrinos, as well as other high-energy particles, have “large cross-sections.” That means that they’ll almost always crash into something soon after zipping into the Earth and never make it out the other side.

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TOPICS: Culture/Society; Extended News; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: antarctica; particles; physics
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1 posted on 10/03/2018 9:43:57 PM PDT by bitt
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2 posted on 10/03/2018 9:44:19 PM PDT by bitt (We need electric benches, not electric chairs.)
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Hey, as long as they don’t attach any type of ‘Russia Collusion,’ or ‘Judge Kavanagh Assault,’ to it, those particles can just be on doing what they’re doing. LOLOL


3 posted on 10/03/2018 9:46:25 PM PDT by Notthereyet (Notthereyet)
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I’m sure it’s due to GoreBull warming.


4 posted on 10/03/2018 9:46:25 PM PDT by beethovenfan (I always try to maximize my carbon footprint.)
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It’s The Thing!


5 posted on 10/03/2018 9:46:54 PM PDT by skr (May God confound the enemy)
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Are they certain that Judge Kavanaugh wasn't in the vicinity, throwing his ice around again?

6 posted on 10/03/2018 9:49:38 PM PDT by Songcraft
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AVP.


7 posted on 10/03/2018 9:51:22 PM PDT by Hugin ("Not one step from his weapons should a traveler take"...Havamal 38)
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How do they catch these ephemeral things?


8 posted on 10/03/2018 9:57:05 PM PDT by Paladin2
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Could be worse.

Could be flying out of that big planet.


9 posted on 10/03/2018 9:59:55 PM PDT by BenLurkin (The above is not a statement of fact. It is either satire or opinion. Or both.)
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And, combining the IceCube and ANITA data sets, the Penn State researchers calculated that, whatever particle is bursting up from the Earth, it has much less than a 1-in-3.5 million chance of being part of the Standard Model.

But there is a chance! (Better odds than the Super-Lotto!)

10 posted on 10/03/2018 10:06:25 PM PDT by roadcat
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It’s a Stargate!


11 posted on 10/03/2018 10:10:50 PM PDT by Tai_Chung
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Look at this self-entitled meddler on NOV 11 2016

https://antarcticsun.usap.gov/features/contenthandler.cfm?id=4283


12 posted on 10/03/2018 10:11:38 PM PDT by thesligoduffyflynns (get off my lawn)
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Why are they wasting their time trying to change settled science?


13 posted on 10/03/2018 10:11:38 PM PDT by NonValueAdded (#DeplorableMe #BitterClinger #HillNO! #cishet #MyPresident #MAGA #Winning #covfefe)
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They’re not going to pin this crap on me!


14 posted on 10/03/2018 10:12:30 PM PDT by heights
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You know you’re from a different era when you have to look up AVP and when you saw the Thing in black and white.


15 posted on 10/03/2018 10:13:23 PM PDT by skr (May God confound the enemy)
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16 posted on 10/03/2018 10:15:28 PM PDT by Beowulf9
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Hollow Earth finally proven /s


17 posted on 10/03/2018 10:16:42 PM PDT by jcon40 (The other post before yours really nails it for me. I have been a DOithS / PC guy forever and alway)
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Pretty sure there is an Ancient base there with a Stargate and a ZPM and everything.


18 posted on 10/03/2018 10:20:38 PM PDT by Valpal1
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what’s the name of that desk toy with the little silver balls hanging from nylon string? - hit the ball on one side and the last one on the other side swings out from energy transfer?


19 posted on 10/03/2018 10:30:57 PM PDT by blueplum ( "...this moment is your moment: it belongs to you... " President Donald J. Trump, Jan 20, 2017)
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Dark matter particles slowly decay when they hit a strong magnetic field in the earth’s core and they do so along the same axis of the magnetic field but they only flow in ONE direction along the south pole.

Hey better than other theories and I just made this one up.


20 posted on 10/03/2018 10:37:43 PM PDT by GraceG ("If I post an AWESOME MEME, STEAL IT! JUST RE-POST IT IN TWO PLACES PLEASE")
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