Re: Fun physics writeup

On Wed, 12 Jun 2024 17:26:20 -0000 (UTC), Cursitor Doom
<cd999666@notformail.com> wrote:

On Wed, 12 Jun 2024 08:31:24 -0700, john larkin wrote:
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On Wed, 12 Jun 2024 05:07:20 GMT, Jan Panteltje <alien@comet.invalid>
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.

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"[13]" ?

The text is from wikipedia.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Super-Kamiokande

Even breaking one PMT is a distressing event.