Dr Richard Jarecki worked hard at the operating table, but his true love was the roulette table. After he moved to Germany, he, his wife, and a few other people he hired surveyed Europe’s roulette tables in search of “biased roulette wheels”. These wheels were old and a little scuffed; their wear and tear made them more likely to land on certain numbers. He won over 2 million USD (in today’s money) at the Casino San Remo, which almost filed for bankruptcy after he cleared them of their cash. 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
