Astronomers and Physicists Now Believe They Know What Is Happening

question 24

Multiple Choice

Astronomers and physicists now believe they know what is happening to the missing neutrinos from the Sun (the neutrinos that our theories say should be emerging from the Sun, but our experiments in that underground mine could not find) . These neutrinos are:

• A) not being produced by the Sun because our star's nuclear fusion period has ended
• B) turning into a different type of neutrino in a neutrino oscillation
• C) being converted to antimatter in the core of the Sun and being destroyed as they hit matter
• D) changing course before they reach the Earth as they hit other neutrinos in space
• E) all aimed at Bayonne, New Jersey, and our neutrino experiments are located elsewhere

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