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Re:The physics anomaly no one talks about: What’s up with th... by gumby on Sunday September 19, 2021 @11:07AM (#28584890)
She mentions this in her transcript. First of all they aren’t as common on earth as other particles (she says “10-15 have passed through you while listening to this paragraph”. How many photons hit you in that period of time? If you can make a bunch at once (as a side effect of another high energy interaction) you can look at them in a known place at a known time.

Secondly, she mentions LSND which was a big tub of liquid that would interact with neutrinos that passed through it. Flashes from those interactions would be picked up by photo detectors (hence “scintillation”). The most famous such setup in a mine in Japan, but there are several such “neutrino telescopes”.

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Re:The physics anomaly no one talks about: What’s up with th... by _tom_ on Sunday September 19, 2021 @11:12AM (#28584929)
Not "ten to fifteen", but "ten to the fifteenth"

A bit larger. :-)

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Re:The physics anomaly no one talks about: What’s up with th... by solidgol on Sunday September 19, 2021 @11:27AM (#28585065)
She said 10 to the 15. 10^15
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Re:The physics anomaly no one talks about: What’s up with th... by dnautics on Sunday September 19, 2021 @12:11PM (#28585459)
To be fair I also heard 10-15 on the first pass and then had to think about it for a second.
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Re:The physics anomaly no one talks about: What’s up with th... by _tom_ on Sunday September 19, 2021 @03:25PM (#28587124)
That's because she actually said "ten to the fifteen" not "ten to the fifteenth", so you have to decide if you autocorrect by removing the "the" -> "ten to fifteen" or by adding the "th" -> "ten to the fifteenth".

Easy to get confused.

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Re:The physics anomaly no one talks about: What’s up with th... by mkl on Sunday September 19, 2021 @05:13PM (#28587978)
"Ten to the fifteen" is also correct, and in my experience more common. It's short for "ten to the power of fifteen", whereas "ten to the fifteenth" is short for "ten to the fifteenth power".
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