Comments on: Finding 1 atom in 10,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000

By: Jeremy Roberts

Jeremy Roberts — Fri, 04 Jun 2010 10:08:29 +0000

About poster #8, it is in fact 10^28

By: Harry

Harry — Wed, 03 Jun 2009 18:54:09 +0000

Nice article, but could have had another sentence or two about the implications of DBD. Character of the neutrino is mentioned (Majorana vs Dirac). What about neutrino mass and lepton (non) conservation? All these would be even more earth shaking than the grand technology development discussed. As valuable as a whole accelerator’s worth.

Anyway, kudos to a fine experimental team and a very bold experiment, and a warm fuzzy article about it all.

By: Racquel

Racquel — Thu, 21 May 2009 21:49:32 +0000

I’m no geek like all of you… but that is my brother conducting the experiment!!! Great Job Brian. I still have no clue what you do.

By: David Harris

David Harris — Mon, 11 May 2009 14:54:24 +0000

@Math-A-MAGICIAN: You might like to count again. There are definitely 28 zeroes after the 1 in that figure which means 10^^28.

By: Math-A-MAGICIAN!!!!

Math-A-MAGICIAN!!!! — Fri, 08 May 2009 17:11:29 +0000

Um, I believe you have a typo here: 10,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000 = 10^^27, NOT 10^^28. I know it’s “only” a factor of 10, but… at these levels of precision, a factor of 10 is too much.

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By: David Harris

David Harris — Mon, 04 May 2009 18:36:10 +0000

@Kris: That has been corrected above. Indeed it wasn’t a salt mine, but the facility is dug out of a salt bed.

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Interesting Reading #281 - The Blogs at HowStuffWorks — Mon, 04 May 2009 16:02:03 +0000

[...] Finding 1 atom in 10,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000 – “Physicists are used to dealing with rare events and very small quantities, but rarely do they tackle a challenge of the kind facing the Enriched Xenon Observatory, or EXO. To find what they’re looking for, not only will they try to find a rare event, but to be sure they will need to find a single barium atom in the 10 ton bath of liquid xenon–1028 atoms…” [...]

By: Kris

Kris — Mon, 04 May 2009 15:30:35 +0000

FYI: WIPP was never a salt mine; it is an active repository for transuranic waste. The