“For few decades there, though, barbed wired brought people not apart but together.” Barbed wire was used by rural communities to connect their telephones before the Bell system became widespread. This brought the community together at a relatively low cost, as the fences were abundant. People used the system to host community events, like music nights, getting on their phones with some playing instruments, others singing, and the rest listening in from the comfort of their homes. Read full article here
Science
‘Ghostly’ neutrinos provide new path to study protons
In groundbreaking research, an international collaboration of scientists from the University of Rochester have used a beam of neutrinos to measure the size and shape of the protons that make up the nuclei of atoms. This feat, once thought impossible, provides scientists with a new way of looking at the small components of an atom’s nucleus and opens up a wealth of new information about the structure of an atom’s nucleus and the dynamics of the forces that affect neutrino interactions. The researchers solved the challenge of harnessing neutrinos in large numbers by using a neutrino detector containing a target of both hydrogen and carbon atoms, and over nine years of data collection at Fermilab’s accelerator. Read full article here
Merv
March 25, 2023
