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2002 3

Neutrinos have mass

A little article on anti-neutrino behaviour. All very fine, except for a line towards the end: The oscillations are a result of the neutrinos having slightly different masses, … Since when did neutrinos start having mass!? (OK, it was in July 98. And no one even told me!)

Strange quarks cause earthquakes

Strange quarks causing earthquakes. Literally. via RobotWisdom

Current state of the Standard Model

Matt’s excellent summary of the current state of the Standard Model at kuro5hin. (The Standard Model what we know of fundamental particles today. Quarks and stuff.)

2001 2

CERN distributed computing

Following SETI, CERN is using distributed computing.