SMILEY ANDERS FOR JUNE 16, 2010

By SMILEY ANDERS
Advocate staff writer
Published: Jun 16, 2010

Elementary physics

J.R. Madden, our senior science contributor, says the Kenilworth neighborhood newsletter reports that the daughter of a resident will study this summer at a nuclear power plant in France.

She will work with more than 100 physicists from eight countries studying the oscillations of nutrinos.

For those unfamiliar with the term, J.R. explains that nutrinos are “sub-atomic particles which result when one or more nutria collide at high speed.”

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