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THE DETECTORS. “These particles decay, giving rise to a neutrino beam (or an antineutrino beam, depending on the conditions used), which is monitored by two detectors 280 metres away.” https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-020-01000-9 View in LinkedIn

THE EXPERIMENT. “In the T2K experiment, a neutrino beam is generated at the Japan Proton Accelerator Research Complex in Tokai. Here, highly accelerated protons hit a dense graphite target, producing large quantities of particles known as pions and kaons.” https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-020-01000-9 View in LinkedIn

NEUTRINO OSCILLATIONS. “The T2K Collaboration has been able to study these oscillations with unprecedented precision, and has observed possible evidence of leptonic CP violation.” (CP = charge-conjugation parity-reversal). https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-020-01000-9 View in LinkedIn

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“METAPHYSICS is spiritual, experimental, abstract, mystical, ephemeral, internal, irreplicable, imprecise, selective, other-worldly, impractical, and impossible to prove. Science studies the world of matter while metaphysics seeks to transcend it.”" " https://lnkd.in/eVXZCsiB View in LinkedIn

ETHER, ELECTROMAGNETIC FIELD, MOLECULE. “[Physicists] wished to keep physics testable. To accomplish this goal, they adopted the safe method, namely to banish every idea that could not be closely tied to observation.” (A world of sense experience; historical footnote). https://lnkd.in/eTkAFGYS View in LinkedIn

SO ENDS this section on the surprising properties of sheets of imperfect graphene stacked at a magic angle to cause moiré interference patterns, and their enormous, and largely untapped applications. Not only are they practical but they are extremely beautiful and very interesting. https://link.springer.com/article/10.1557/s43577-021-00135-y View in LinkedIn

PATIENT HUNT. “Smaller prototypes tested at CERN, Europe’s particle-physics lab near Geneva, Switzerland, have demonstrated the feasibility of the large-scale DUNE detector. T2HK and DUNE therefore provide complementary techniques and measurements. They will probably give us a definitive answer in the quest for CP violation in the next 15 years.” (By 2035). (CP = charge-conjugation parity-reversal)." " https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-020-01000-9 View in LinkedIn

START AT GO. “Graphene twistronics that rely on the artificial stacking of perfect graphene at mismatched angles of 1.1° have gained a lot of research interests since its discovery in 2018. They are promising for superconducting and quantum computing, but still at the infancy stage in terms of scalable fabrication.” https://link.springer.com/article/10.1557/s43577-021-00135-y View in LinkedIn

NEUTRINO CAPTURE DESIGN. “DUNE will use a different detector technology consisting of four modules filled with several thousand tonnes of liquid argon, to detect an intense beam of neutrinos produced 1,300 km away at Fermilab in Batavia, Illinois.” https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-020-01000-9 View in LinkedIn