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Hmm .. great article, Steven .. many thanks for that.
A fascinating topic (although, somewhat off-topic .. apologies).
I've been pondering all this stuff over the last few days.
The sigma levels (and other considerations) are important, as they do lead us to regard things as having the status .. of say: 'a primitive physical object', (requiring demonstration that they exist in the lab), as opposed to something having the status of say: 'a concept', which allows us to continue thinking that the Standard Model is still Ok. For eg: the Higgs boson still doesn't have the status of a primitive physical object yet, eh?
I think that this is yet another aspect where much confusion exists outside of scientific circles, and creates a lot of trouble when scientific 'discoveries' hit the mainstream media.
Relativity doesn't have the same status as say an electron .. but it is still a big enabler of extended scientific thinking …
Coming back to the original topic though, if these neutrino oscillations turn out to be agreed as being physically real, then I'd imagine this would put the onus on those who refute fusion as the source of the Sun's energy, to come up with a viable alternative, eh?
Cheers
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