It’s already 20 years since the Sudbury Neutrino Collaboration (SNO) announced the first results from the heavy water detector experiment in northern Ontario: that neutrinos have a small but finite mass, and therefore their flavours oscillate. That is, that some fraction of electron-type neutrinos produced from the beta-decay of 8B in the thermonuclear chain reactionContinue reading “Remembering the first SNO result”
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Connecting quantum mechanics to the world
It’s not usual in science for a known fundamental problem to remain at the heart of a discipline for a century. Usually these attract the focused attentions of lots of scholars and get solved. But quantum mechanics has resisted this — the combined attentions of some of the smartest minds ever — for all ofContinue reading “Connecting quantum mechanics to the world”
Marcus James Thomson, Ph.D. 