# missing neutrinos *The Urth list — 2 messages, 2 voices, 06 Jul 1998* > Exported from an unofficial mirror of a public mailing list. Copyright > in each message remains with the person who wrote it. > Email addresses are obscured as `user at host`, the form the original > archive published. This file was rebuilt from parsed fields rather than > retained headers, so it is faithful in content but not byte-exact. --- ### m.driussi *06 Jul 1998, 13:59* Damien Broderick, I'm glad you mentioned the "missing neutrinos" belief! This led to scientific scenarios ranging from a black hole in the Sun (as the ultimate source of the fusion) to a "dying sun"; and the science fiction seems to have moved accordingly--Clarke's SONGS OF DISTANT EARTH has the Solar System wiped out by a dying sun traceable to the missing neutrinos, IIRC. I think it is consciously used by Wolfe in the Urth Cycle--a clever "science retro-fit" of Zothique/The Dying Earth, using off-the-shelf items. And recent news, "Neutrinos have mass!" (Picture them in their itty bitty little pews.) Science marches on! =mantis= --- ### Derek Bell *06 Jul 1998, 19:59 · follows m.driussi* In message <199807061408.HAA06316 at lists1.best.com>, m.driussi at genie.geis.com wr ites: > And recent news, "Neutrinos have mass!" (Picture them in their itty > bitty little pews.) Science marches on! Ah, but were they raised Catholic or did they convert, like Gene? :-) Derek ---