Path: ...!Xl.tags.giganews.com!local-1.nntp.ord.giganews.com!nntp.supernews.com!news.supernews.com.POSTED!not-for-mail NNTP-Posting-Date: Thu, 13 Jun 2024 13:31:09 +0000 From: john larkin Newsgroups: sci.electronics.design Subject: Re: Fun physics writeup Date: Thu, 13 Jun 2024 06:31:10 -0700 Message-ID: <6vsl6jlhfbcf0tm37r1fropli4c621qri7@4ax.com> References: <1ofj6j56ppd61t5d1belml8qhkjpf5ru6i@4ax.com> User-Agent: ForteAgent/8.00.32.1272 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Lines: 29 X-Trace: sv3-tikZJAabGXoCh4k68Mc1kbSIaXUV5EWAgjuK/xhLdH6WjjMnm9z38ba5aXAoplJJ85JLbjltMEDWr9o!DrYT50FQngrtvDYB6y6SG0BWLrm4It6wbUFz/9TA0NTNX8pkzSBvg7Yq5CG04OPDdvZWERwgYC/y!t1lO6Q== X-Complaints-To: www.supernews.com/docs/abuse.html X-DMCA-Complaints-To: www.supernews.com/docs/dmca.html X-Abuse-and-DMCA-Info: Please be sure to forward a copy of ALL headers X-Abuse-and-DMCA-Info: Otherwise we will be unable to process your complaint properly X-Postfilter: 1.3.40 Bytes: 2051 On Wed, 12 Jun 2024 17:26:20 -0000 (UTC), Cursitor Doom wrote: >On Wed, 12 Jun 2024 08:31:24 -0700, john larkin wrote: > >> On Wed, 12 Jun 2024 05:07:20 GMT, Jan Panteltje >> wrote: >> >>>Neutrinos: The inscrutable â??ghost particlesâ?? driving scientists >>>crazy They hold the keys to new physics. If only we could understand >>>them. >>> https://arstechnica.com/science/2024/06/neutrinos-are-infuriating-but- >we-still-have-to-study-them/ >> >> Remember this? >> >> On 12 November 2001, about 6,600 of the photomultiplier tubes (costing >> about $3000 each[13]) in the Super-Kamiokande detector imploded, >> apparently in a chain reaction or cascading failure, as the shock wave >> from the concussion of each imploding tube cracked its neighbours. > >"[13]" ? The text is from wikipedia. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Super-Kamiokande Even breaking one PMT is a distressing event.