Hi Adam,

Comments interspersed...

The results presented today at the Joint American Physical Society/American Astronomical Society meetings in Albuquerque, New Mexico, show that the number of electron-neutrinos observed is only about one third of the total number reaching the Earth. This shows unambiguously that electron-neutrinos emitted by the Sun have changed to muon- or tau-neutrinos before they reach Earth.

The same old figure - one-third of the electron neutrinos This shows nothing "unambiguously" other than that 2/3rds of the neutrinos aren't there.


Dr. Andre Hamer of Los Alamos National Laboratory told the meeting, "In order to make these measurements, we had to restrict the radioactivity in the detector to minute levels and determine the background effects very accurately to show clearly that we are observing neutrinos from the Sun. The care taken throughout this experiment to minimize radioactivity and the careful calibration and analysis of our data has enabled us to make these neutrino measurements with great accuracy

This is the great verbal deception - the fact that they can't explain in the article how the determine these other neutrinos came from the sun - is probably because they did not.

I will read the paper with interest - but I seriously doubt that their 99.999 percent figure of certainty for these other neutrinos holds up at all! In fact, when someone throws a statistic like that...watch out... it is scientific "cover-my-a-- speak" for saying "or we could be wrong."

I have found that scientists who use the number 99 percent to describe the certainty of something - conjure up this figure arbitrariliy because it sounds good - and are almost always wrong.

If it is 99.999 percent certain...it has almost no chance of being correct!

;-)

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