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...neutron in the nucleus doesn't make the water's appearance, chemistry or taste any different from ordinary water used in other detectors. It does, however, change its nuclear structure enough to make this observatory sensitive not just to one but to all three known varieties of neutrinos. Only electron neutrinos--one of the three types--generate flying electrons. But all three will knock the extra neutron from heavy-water molecules...
...allow the device to solve one of the enduring mysteries of astrophysics. Known as the solar neutrino problem, it was discovered back in the 1960s. According to calculations originally made by Bahcall, the nuclear fusion reactions at the sun's core should be generating about 200 trillion trillion trillion electron neutrinos every second. But when physicists set out to find them, they were shocked to see evidence of only about a third that number. Among the possible explanations: perhaps scientists didn't understand nuclear physics as well as they thought, or maybe some unknown factor was cooling...
...Small round-structured viruses (SRSVs) were detected by electron microscopy in stool and vomitus specimens taken from ill students," said Rosenthal...
After that, even Ray doesn't know what will happen. Perhaps the population will reach stasis and stagnate at the level of pond scum. Or perhaps Ray's digital beings will set off down the same sort of evolutionary path our species has traveled, only at electron speed. And if that happens, what then? We may find ourselves face to face with an artificial intelligence so thoroughly immersed in the silicon realm, so distant from our curious, carbon-based concerns, that we cannot even hope to converse with...
...funds will be used to recruit faculty members, to provide a new facility for electron microscopy and to upgrade "the computer backbone allowing better communication between investigators," said Rosalyn A. Segal, director of administration for the Department of Neurobiology...