The Solar Neutrino Problem 

And I had his fans emailing me out of the blue.

They fullfil the inquisitive nature in me too.

Wow, thank you!

My pleasure!

Those neutrinos almost certainly don't come from the sun, so they would be outside this video's scope.

There are a lot of engineering jobs and internships at NASA. Never hurts to inquire

Short answer, yes. Long answer, yyyeeeeesssssss.

fusion research will never solve energy problems , its all for cross subsidizing military . Fusion is the easy bit , economically extracting useful heat next to hundreds of tons of supercooled magnets with weeks of cool down /warm up for maintenance times , then all the neutron embrittlement and you have the stupidest way of boiling water ever imagined .

Around 100 Trillion Neutrinos are passing thru our bodies every second. They interact with atoms very rarely, A neutrino goes thru the Earth and can go thru a light year of lead, so there is no way to shield against them Fortunately neutrinos from the sun are streaming thru you even at night they shine thru the whole Earth an upward thru your feet. They react so rarely that this has been going for billions of years with no effect on living critters.

But neutrinos don't interact with anything...

No, not neutrinos.

I guess it's a matter of perspective. The electron is leaving the nucleus? But strictly speaking, yes, it's an exchange. One neutron for a proton and an electron.

Wow, that seems scary!

@@JasonKendallAstronomer Nah... I recognized that unique shade of blue almost immediately and had a general idea of what was going on. I was so interested in trying to figure out how it worked that I didn't really think about worrying about it at the time. I could see the x-ray emitters? Bulbs? whatever... spinning in the CT scanner and then slow down at the end of the scan. That was pretty cool. I told the tech that I had seen 3 "Bulbs" or whatever, emitting the x-rays... and that kind of threw him for a loop because you couldn't see the mechanism at all in visible light. It was all behind plastic. I doubt the effect would have any real-world uses as... I could only see the x-ray emitters themselves, and then stuff that reflected the x-rays... I'm assuming metal in the room... like the framework of the machine and stuff. If you had that on "all the time" I assume you'd be getting cancer pretty quickly... also, not to mention the radioactive tracer I had in my CSF at the time as well. My only assumption is that, with the tracer in my CSF fluid, it somehow worked its way into my optic nerves or something? Then the x-rays were pointed at my sinuses... so basically directly at my eyeballs... so... Cherenkov radiation makes the most sense... of course, I could have just hallucinated the whole thing. They were giving me random drugs throughout the day... But it seems like an awfully specific hallucination given the circumstances.

Thanks.

Yes, audio is great. :)

Yes, audio is great. :)