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Letter: Neutrino hunt

Published 20 December 2011

From Alec Cawley

Andrew Martin’s letter asks how, if neutrinos are skipping into other dimensions, they “know” when to reappear in this one (3 December, p 39).

But as long as they skip randomly in and out many times on their journey, there will always be some here to be detected. In fact, their unwillingness to interact with other particles could be understood if they were able to spend most of their time in another dimension.

Newbury, Berkshire, UK

Issue no. 2844 published 24 December 2011

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