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Neutrino observatories have ruled it out (for meaningfully large aggregate power levels).

- "...hypothetical georeactor at the center of the Earth having power greater than 2.4 TW at 95% C.L. is excluded"

https://arxiv.org/abs/1909.02257

(That physics paper counts more coauthors than neutrinos!)




> That physics paper counts more coauthors than neutrinos.

And that's even before enabling Javascript.

(Javascript-enabled neutrinos will be a key feature of Web 6.0.)

(Oh, and thanks!)

Questions:

- How'd you find this? I'm suspecting something like "earth's core reactor neutrinos".

- I don't even know how to read/interpret the notation used to express neutrino counts. Though if we can divide 112 co-authors (including deceased) by annual detection rates we can come up with a neutrino-seconds equivalent of authors....


From another source --- it looks as if the detector was picking up 2 neutrino events per month. So yes, authors > neutrinos.

(That's a ... really low detection rate.)




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