fantastic quick explanation

But this raises even more questions!

SONIC BOOM! SONIC BOOM! HADOUKEN! SHORYUKEN! TATSUMAKISENPUKYAKU!

Good'ol Cherenkov radiation, it's such a nice hue of blue isn't it. Neutrinos are definitely odd little sub-atomic particles with "flavors" that may move faster than the speed-of-light according to the recent experiment(s) done by the OPERA team. Of course it's already been partially re-tested, basically looking for "extra"--you could say Cherenkov radiation, caused by the release of energy by these extra fast neutrinos. Specifically, they're looking for extra electrons (matter/anti-matter pairs, as I say below) being released which should eventually release a few anti-matter electrons in the process, called positrons--which when it happens the electron and positron would appear as a couple.

But, the Gran Sasso physicists involved in the re-testing of the OPERA team's experiment have yet to see even one event which is theorized to occur. This puts a very large noose on the OPERA teams finding, and makes it look more likely that what happened is a measurement error of some kind.

This has little to do with the video, but I thought I'd add it it in for the hell of it.

After my wife and I saw 2012, I prank called an IceCube research lab at my university. I asked to speak to the person in charge. At the time most of the people in the group knew me, and they happen to put one of friends on the phone. I basically recounted the plot of 2012. He put me on speaker and started to explain neutrinos to me, how 2012 is just a movie, and that they don't interact with anything. In the end, I couldn't help it and I cracked up laughing. Good times, good times.

PS. Don't do this.
PPS. 2012 is awesome.

*promote

Promoting this video back to the front page; last published Monday, December 19th, 2011 1:17am PST - promote requested by MycroftHomlz.

A neutrino is how Ned Flanders says "Newt".

*tumbleweeds*

anyways...

http://science.slashdot.org/story/11/12/20/2337213/undersea-neutrino-observatory-to-be-second-largest-human-structure

If neutrinos are the "vampires of physics" then does their skin sparkle in the sun when they take their shirts off?

Those are the dudes...
>> ^vaire2ube:

tumbleweeds
anyways...
http://science.slashdot.o
rg/story/11/12/20/2337213/undersea-neutrino-observatory-to-be-second-largest-human-structure