The neutrino experiments MiniBooNE http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MiniBooNE http://www-boone.fnal.gov/about_boone/interestingfacts.html and its predecessor LSND http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/LSND find evidence conflicting with the usual view that there are 3 neutrino flavors. Instead, they think there must be an extra two "sterile" neutrino types and with comparatively large mass for at least one, namely over about 1eV. This would be an excellent detection of the long-sought "dark matter" except that 1eV is too large to be compatible with cosmological observations, i.e. there would be *too much* dark matter. Oops. Also, these detectors seem to think neutrino flavor oscillations behave much differently than for antineutrinos, which also would be a massive shock to physics ("CPT violation" claimed, which I find absolutely unbelievable, so they are probably wrong, at least about that) plus a large "matter/antimatter asymmetry." I got this from this Los Alamos magazine article http://www.lanl.gov/science/1663/january2012/story2full.shtml it would be nice to know more... -- Warren D. Smith http://RangeVoting.org <-- add your endorsement (by clicking "endorse" as 1st step)
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