*reads*

*Shudder*

I loved that idea. I can't remember where King mentioned it now.

I must have been very young, but I swear I remember one of these operating in England in the early 1970s.

I hoped Dr Goldberg would chime in.

"What's the wavelength of a neutrino? "

That's around when I remember first encountering the idea. I've been fascinated by it ever since. It'd just be so delightfully wacky if it was true!

It just drops out of the equations of special relativity once you let v > c.

It's "only" tachyons (!). I mean, it would be fascinating if neutrinos turned out to have velocities greater than c, but Feinberg was kicking tachyons around back in the '60s, and people have been playing with them ever since. Especially tachyon neutrinos.

Yes, I know the theoretical mechanism. The point being that the suggestion that neutrinos exhibit velocities greater than c has raised its head before.

Say you attempt to measure the mass of an electron antineutrino by observing tritium decay, in which a tritium nucleus decays to Helium 3, an electron and an antineutrino. You get a bell-shaped spectrum for the kinetic energy of the emitted electron. The endpoint of that distribution is where the electron has maximum…

I attended two co-ed schools (in different countries) up to the age of 11, and then a private boy's school in England from 11-18.

Fascinating... best to be very skeptical until extensive research is done, of course.

Thanks! I think I read most of those, but I'll have a look through now they're all in one place.

I thoroughly enjoy that script; I can read it as if watching the movie.

"Alien 4 written completely by Joss. I wonder, if it existed and if it can be found on the internet."

Agree with all. As far as I'm concerned, Gibson's Alien script is what happened after Aliens.

"Are the tidal effects based upon how massive the star is?"

That's an awfully good pair of binoculars! The star is around magnitude 11.5, which is about the same apparent brightness as Enceladus, and a good deal dimmer than Neptune. It'd be a lot easier to go looking for bright asteroids.