Comments on: Did Physicists Find Evidence of a Fourth Neutrino Flavor?

By: Keith

Keith — Fri, 05 Nov 2010 09:36:47 +0000

What I don’t understand (my post-grad theoretical stuff is too far out of date!) is whether dark matter, dark energy and indeed “new” flavours of neutrino, neutrino flavour transitions etc. are all manifestations of the higher dimensions predicted by String Theory. Could higher dimensions explain some of these apparently unexpected phenomena? Is it also possible that we don’t “see” gravity easily in detectors for the same reason? Wouldn’t that be a major coup for String Theory? I assume (hope) someone has looked at this. It would be interesting to know.

By: JMW

JMW — Thu, 04 Nov 2010 16:26:49 +0000

Might this also have implications for the problem of why the universe is made up of 99.999999% matter?

By: michael-savory

michael-savory — Thu, 04 Nov 2010 10:59:10 +0000

The standard model needs to make room for a fourth neutrino. Does this mean matter could potentially oscillate between even more states of matter than previously thought. Awesome if this thing makes a good dark matter candidate. By the way check out this cool Physics site, http://BlueSolver.com