Throughout history, the standardization of time had been met with protest. Americans condemned Greenwich Median Time as going against the truth set by the sun, while the indigenous peoples of Australia refused to give up their own form of nature-based timekeeping. Even today there are rebels against the clock because it doesn’t conform to the natural truth; in Xinjiang, where the sun sets at midnight, the Uighurs use their own local solar times.
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‘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
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March 25, 2023
