Comments on: Physicists discover large body orbiting Earth!

By: marvin nubwaxer

marvin nubwaxer — Wed, 31 Oct 2012 03:11:02 +0000

funny that a google search yields no results for this phenomenon.

By: Carlo

Carlo — Mon, 02 Apr 2012 18:04:19 +0000

I’ve been as stupid as googling the news… seeing no sign of it, I understood

By: Simon

Simon — Mon, 02 Apr 2012 07:05:41 +0000

More conclusive evidence that scientists should step away from their experiments more often and so thinks like looking up.

By: JimHill

JimHill — Mon, 02 Apr 2012 03:39:54 +0000

nice.

By: pieman

pieman — Mon, 02 Apr 2012 02:16:53 +0000

happy april fools day!

By: Aidan Randle-Conde

Aidan Randle-Conde — Sun, 01 Apr 2012 21:23:00 +0000

I think Super Kamiokande saw something like that! You could be onto something…

By: Aidan Randle-Conde

Aidan Randle-Conde — Sun, 01 Apr 2012 21:21:24 +0000

Looks like you’ve just solved world hunger!

By: Aidan Randle-Conde

Aidan Randle-Conde — Sun, 01 Apr 2012 21:20:52 +0000

Oops, sorry about that! I had spellcheck turned on but sanitycheck turned off for this post. It’s fixed now, thanks for spotting it. (By the way, Ice Cube seeing the shadow of the Luno is the coolest physics phenomenon I’ve heard about in a long time!)

By: sooszq

sooszq — Sun, 01 Apr 2012 20:08:28 +0000

Nice article on April Fools Day! Good gag guys.

By: Frank Cross

Frank Cross — Sun, 01 Apr 2012 19:46:46 +0000

…….sigh………..

By: felix anthony

felix anthony — Sun, 01 Apr 2012 19:46:29 +0000

April Fool’s Day prank???

By: Mike DuVernois

Mike DuVernois — Sun, 01 Apr 2012 19:25:05 +0000

Though of course a serious answer on a day like today is always suspect…

By: Mike DuVernois

Mike DuVernois — Sun, 01 Apr 2012 19:24:34 +0000

It’s not actually neutrinos being stopped by the Luno, but rather cosmic rays that would otherwise interact in the Earth’s atmosphere and generate atmospheric showers of charged particles and neutrinos.

By: April

April — Sun, 01 Apr 2012 18:23:28 +0000

I thought that neutrinos could penetrate a light-year of lead. How can Luno stop them? Is it made of some unusual substance, perhaps green cheese, with a high neutrino cross section?

By: Daniel Cohen

Daniel Cohen — Sun, 01 Apr 2012 13:42:51 +0000

Great article!
My reading of the Egyptian hieroglyphs told me, too, that the ancients suspected the something was there. It’s been difficult for modern space exploration to prove that some kind of massive particle is up there, so it’s good progress to finally identify it.

Now I would like to take this idea one step further: I predict that there’s another particle, located somewhere in a different direction from the new Luno. I predict that you’ll find it where it reduces the flux of electromagnetic radiation from the universe at large. It will also affect the tides.

I love living in our modern era of scientific discovery. So many brave scientists, working out so many exciting facts! Congratulations to all you thousands of seekers and finders.