It's like something out of science fiction. In China, they've built a 35-meter plexiglass sphere 700 meters underground. It holds 20,000 tonnes of a strange liquid, surrounded by 43,200 photomultiplier tubes that can detect tiny flashes of light. It's deliberately built 50 kilometers from a nuclear reactor. It will start operation soon.
The goal? To measure some numbers in a 3×3 matrix.
It's called the Pontecorvo–Maki–Nakagawa–Sakata matrix. Unless we are seriously confused — which is always possible — this matrix controls the behavior of the 3 kinds of neutrinos. Neutrinos of the first kind are produced as a byproduct of nuclear fission. But they can turn into the other kinds as they shoot along. The rate at which they do is in part described by this matrix. (It also depends on the masses of the 3 neutrinos.)
What's the use of this? Easy: one goal of any prosperous civilization has always been to better understand the universe. It's just a tiny part of the grand scheme. It usually comes well after the goal of eating lots of tasty foods, or watching people run around playing with spheres. But sometimes it has huge effects, and some of us find it very exciting.
To see more on this amazing device, which should start running this fall, read on....
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’Incursione’ di street art in centro: "Basta inerzia mediatica su Gaza"
Tanti i manifesti con immagini anche forti affissi nelle strade per sensibilizzare lucchesi e non in occasione della Notte Bianca.
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Le barriere coralline sono ecosistemi estremamente vivaci e.. rumorosi!
I ricercatori di bioacustica che studiano il paesaggio sonoro del mare, hanno scoperto che questi ambienti in realtà non sono affatto silenziosi ma incredibilmente diversificati acusticamente.
Come sulla terraferma gli animali, una barriera corallina produce suoni sott'acqua, anche particolarmente forti, che possiamo immaginare come scoppiettii, cinguettii, grugniti e schiocchi.
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Corteo Pro Pal a Venezia, migliaia di manifestanti per Gaza
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Corteo Pro Pal a Venezia, migliaia di manifestanti per Gaza
Leggi su Sky TG24 l'articolo Corteo Pro Pal a Venezia, migliaia di manifestanti per GazaRedazione Sky TG24 (Sky TG24)
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Clotilde Esposito al Dopocinema di Venezia 2025: «Torno sempre a Napoli, è il mio porto sicuro»
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Clotilde Esposito al Dopocinema di Venezia 2025: «Torno sempre a Napoli, è il mio porto sicuro»
L’attrice, meglio nota come Silvia Scacco in Mare Fuori, ritira alla Mostra del Cinema il premio Kinéo, passando prima al The Reef, sulla spiaggia dell’hotel Des Bains, per raccontare a Martina Mozzati, Deputy Editor-in-Chief di Cosmopolitan, della s…Redazione Cosmopolitan Italia (Cosmopolitan)
![Screenshot of the console output of the command fastfetch. The NixOS logo is displayed as an ascii art on the left.
Text on the right:
marie@wiiu
OS: NixOS 25.11 (Xantusia) ppc
Host: nintendo,wup-101
Kernel: Linux 6.6.80-wiiu
Uptime: 3 mins
Packages: 211 (nix-system)
Shell: bash 5.3.3
Terminal: /dev/pts/0
CPU: Espresso @ 1.24 GHz
GPU: Nintendo latte-gpu7 [Integrated]
Memory: 127.48 MiB / 1.98 GiB (6%)
Swap: Disabled
Disk (/): 3.71 GiB / 49.54 GiB (7%) - ext4
Local IP (enu1c2): 192.168.1.62/24
Locale: en_US.UTF-8](https://poliverso.org/photo/preview/640/57627980 "Screenshot of the console output of the command fastfetch. The NixOS logo is displayed as an ascii art on the left.
Text on the right:
marie@wiiu
OS: NixOS 25.11 (Xantusia) ppc
Host: nintendo,wup-101
Kernel: Linux 6.6.80-wiiu
Uptime: 3 mins
Packages: 211 (nix-system)
Shell: bash 5.3.3
Terminal: /dev/pts/0
CPU: Espresso @ 1.24 GHz
GPU: Nintendo latte-gpu7 [Integrated]
Memory: 127.48 MiB / 1.98 GiB (6%)
Swap: Disabled
Disk (/): 3.71 GiB / 49.54 GiB (7%) - ext4
Local IP (enu1c2): 192.168.1.62/24
Locale: en_US.UTF-8")
No se puede jugar un juego sin imaginación o ver una peli sin andar predispuesto a creerse mentiras
En otro toot he preguntado ¿por que la gente pasa por alto la cutrez de Star Trek? y al mismo tiempo creo que tiene q ver con jugar videojuegos bien
Jugar al jet pac sin imaginar que eres un astronauta mejor no lo hagas cabrón.
Jugar a Fallout sin creerte la historia y la de los NPCs y solo ver píxeles mal puestos, personajes trotando más q andando, ... MAL
Has de aceptar un pacto de irrealidad
@guizans ya, en esos juegos creo que lo interesante no es ni ganar ni participar. En algunos juegos de mesa lo que mola es crear las normas, jugar al juego con otra gente pero sin seguir totalmente lo que viene en el papel.
Jugar al futbolín dando vueltas por ejemplo.
Lo interesante también es supongo ser participe, dialogar, ceder, llegar a acuerdos en lo que jugamos. El parchís por ejemplo lo juegas con terceros y esa parte es lo que hace diferentes al parchís de los videojuegos. Supongo.
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How to transfer and share files over a network without a USB flash drive — and with just one line of code
For those times when you can’t find a USB flash drive.Les Pounder (Tom's Hardware)
Labour's position on ECHR is now "we don't want to leave it, but we want to reform it"
Why would /any/ of the other State Parties to ECHR weaken their own human rights legislation just to appease the UK far-right?
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![A post from Sky News' live update thread.
Relevant quote: The education secretary has said that the European Convention on Human Rights (ECHR) needs to be reformed.
Bridget Phillipson tells Sky News: "We do believe there needs to be reform of the UK, and that's what the home secretary is looking at. But we also believe as a government that our responsibilities under international law matter, and our standing in the world matters as well."
Challenged on what reform would actually mean, the minister adds: "The home secretary has committed to looking at the article eight provisions [right to a private and family life], to seeing whether they need updating and reforming for the modern age."](https://poliverso.org/photo/preview/640/57629453 "A post from Sky News' live update thread.
Relevant quote: The education secretary has said that the European Convention on Human Rights (ECHR) needs to be reformed.
Bridget Phillipson tells Sky News: \"We do believe there needs to be reform of the UK, and that's what the home secretary is looking at. But we also believe as a government that our responsibilities under international law matter, and our standing in the world matters as well.\"
Challenged on what reform would actually mean, the minister adds: \"The home secretary has committed to looking at the article eight provisions [right to a private and family life], to seeing whether they need updating and reforming for the modern age.\"")
Politics latest: Reform deputy leader says archbishop's criticism of plan to tackle immigration is 'all wrong'
Richard Tice has responded to criticism of his party's plans to tackle illegal migration, from the acting head of the Church of England.Sky News
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Viaggio nella Vienna Imperiale: visitiamo il Museo di Sissi
Se hai in programma un viaggio a Vienna e sei affascinato dalla storia dell’Impero Austro-Ungarico, c’è una tappa che non può mancare nel tuo itinerario: il Museo di Sissi, un luogo dove mito e rea…Blodiario 2.0
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Gaza postwar plan envisions ‘voluntary’ relocation of entire population
https://www.washingtonpost.com/national-security/2025/08/31/trump-gaza-plan-riviera-relocation/?utm_source=flipboard&utm_medium=activitypub
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The image shows a bakery display case filled with a variety of pastries and cakes. The display is organized into several shelves, each containing different types of baked goods. The top shelf features pastries like "Trança com Creme" and "Palmero Coberto," with prices ranging from 1.80 to 2.80. The second shelf includes items such as "Pecan Nudes" and "Carcol de Canela," priced between 1.20 and 2.20. The third shelf displays cakes like "Bara" and "Red Velvet," with prices from 2.20 to 2.50. The bottom shelf showcases larger cakes, including a chocolate cake and a passion fruit cheesecake, with prices ranging from 1.80 to 2.90. Each item is labeled with its name and price, written on small black signs. The display case is well-lit, highlighting the textures and colors of the baked goods, which include a mix of golden-brown pastries, creamy cakes, and vibrant fruit toppings.
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John Carlos Baez
in reply to John Carlos Baez • • •It's one of the most amazing things built by humans, and it's called JUNO, the Jiangmen Underground Neutrino Observatory. Check it out!
It should have been completed by November *2024*. As usual there were delays, but it's been built now, and it should start taking data this fall.
For more on the physics problem it's trying to solve, read on....
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John Carlos Baez
in reply to John Carlos Baez • • •It's a cruel fact that we can't measure neutrino masses by looking at how neutrinos oscillate back and forth between the 3 kinds. We can only measure the differences in the squares of their masses!
This creates a lot of difficulties. In particular, we're still not sure if there are two light neutrinos and one heavy, or two heavy neutrinos and one light. (They're all quite light, but the chart shows what I mean.)
The first scenario seems more likely from the data we have so far, so it's called the 'normal hierarchy'. The second is called the 'inverted hierarchy'.
JUNO should help figure out which hierarchy is correct. It will also help with other questions. The three kinds of neutrino as measured by their *mass* are blends of the 3 kinds as measured by *how they're produced and detected*.
This blending is one of the things described by the Pontecorvo–Maki–Nakagawa–Sakata matrix. And it's also shown in the chart here.
The 3 kinds as measured by how they're produced and detected are called the e, μ and τ neutrinos. They're shown in red, green and blue in this chart. This chart shows how each of the 3 kinds as measured by mass is a mixture of red, green and blue!
For details on what we know and what JUNO will help figure out, try this:
• Francesco Capozzi, William Giarè, Eligio Lisi, Antonio Marrone, Alessandro Melchiorri and Antonio Palazzo, Neutrino masses and mixing: entering the era of subpercent precision, arxiv.org/abs/2503.07752.
Briefly, JUNO will help measure
m₂² − m₁²
and two other numbers that are functions of the Pontecorvo–Maki–Nakagawa–Sakata matrix elements. Alas, the numbers we can measure are not the numbers we most want to know!
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Neutrino masses and mixing: Entering the era of subpercent precision
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