{"id":125059,"date":"2021-07-16T20:24:14","date_gmt":"2021-07-17T03:24:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2021\/07\/the-vanishing-neutrinos-that-could-upend-fundamental-physics"},"modified":"2021-07-16T20:24:14","modified_gmt":"2021-07-17T03:24:14","slug":"the-vanishing-neutrinos-that-could-upend-fundamental-physics","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2021\/07\/the-vanishing-neutrinos-that-could-upend-fundamental-physics","title":{"rendered":"The vanishing neutrinos that could upend fundamental physics"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/the-vanishing-neutrinos-that-could-upend-fundamental-physics2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Experiments now online or being built in Japan, South Korea, Italy, Canada and the United States are an order of magnitude more sensitive than the previous generation, and planned future detectors would improve on that by another two orders of magnitude (see \u2018Experiments around the world\u2019). In 2015, an advisory committee to the US Department of Energy identified such a project as a priority and a commitment to fund an experiment to detect Majorana neutrinos \u2014 estimated to cost up to\/around US$250 million \u2014 is thought to be imminent.<\/p>\n<hr>\n<p>The search for exotic \u2018Majorana\u2019 particles that could solve a big antimatter mystery is ramping up around the world.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Experiments now online or being built in Japan, South Korea, Italy, Canada and the United States are an order of magnitude more sensitive than the previous generation, and planned future detectors would improve on that by another two orders of magnitude (see \u2018Experiments around the world\u2019). In 2015, an advisory committee to the US Department [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":417,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[20,48],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-125059","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-futurism","category-particle-physics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/125059","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/417"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=125059"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/125059\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=125059"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=125059"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=125059"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}