[HN Gopher] Neutrino (2010) [pdf]
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       Neutrino (2010) [pdf]
        
       Author : joebig
       Score  : 19 points
       Date   : 2024-02-24 05:36 UTC (17 hours ago)
        
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       | joebig wrote:
       | Grippingly woven book, albeit at a popular science level.
        
         | dang wrote:
         | (Sorry for offtopicness but can you please email
         | hn@ycombinator.com? I want to send you a repost invite for a
         | different submission. The current one is good too!)
        
           | joebig wrote:
           | Whoa..hi Dang! Sorry for the response delay... was hopelessly
           | tied up. May I send it now?
        
       | frumiousirc wrote:
       | > In 1996, after a year of reconstruction, Kamiokande was ready
       | for more work. With ten times more water and PMTs than before,
       | the detector was renamed SuperKamiokande, or SuperK for short.
       | 
       | After finding this I can't help but give two pedantic
       | corrections: the two were distinct detectors and for a while
       | operated contemporaneously in different caverns of the same mine
       | (Kamiokande was eventually upgraded to KamLAND). And, second, the
       | correct spelling of SK is with a hyphen: Super-Kamiokande.
       | 
       | The doc includes some interesting bits involving how Davis got
       | Goldhaber to fund Homestake despite Goldhaber being skeptical
       | about astronomers 'being able to say anything correct about
       | anything interesting'. A very Goldhaberesque quote and I'm sure
       | not mean spirited.
       | 
       | Reminds me of another quip of Goldhapber's that was about the
       | name of the IMB (Irvine-Michigan-Brookhaven) experiment.
       | Goldhaber, who I believe was the sole Brookhaven scientist on
       | that experiment, would say, "IMB stands for 'I Am B'".
        
       | webdoodle wrote:
       | Thanks for sharing! These tiny little ones are such interesting
       | particles, with applications that are changing the world.
        
         | firebaze wrote:
         | As harmless as they are even in the numbers we are exposed to
         | every second, they can also be deadly: https://what-
         | if.xkcd.com/73/
        
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