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Physics Bedrock Cracks, Sun Shines In

By Peter Weiss

- More than 2 years ago

By solving a decades-long mystery about the sun, researchers have set off a scientific ripple that could alter conceptions of the universe as a whole.

Two kilometers down in the Sudbury Neutrino Observatory, sensors on the interior of these studded panels detect dim flashes when neutrinos interact with heavy water inside this ball. Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory

In the first scientific data to emerge from the Sudbury (Ontario) Neutrino Observatory (SNO) in Canada, physicists have found evidence that their most fundamental theory of the universe–the so-called standard model (SN: 7/1/95, p.