Hi AZPaul3
Thanks, that makes sense:
If we are measuring departure time from the peak production max point in the starting bell curve, and the arrival time from the peak detections max point in the arrival bell curve ...
AND the arrival bell curve is significantly smaller (both lower and thinner) than the departure bell curve ...
THEN it could logically be displaced anywhere along the range of the departure that it fits under the departure bell curve and still be a sampling of the departed neutrinos.
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It could be earlier, it could be later, or it could be about the same time.
One test for this would be the spread of the detected bell curve -- if it is the same width as the production bell curve, then we could assume that it is random sampling from the production of neutrinos, whereas if it is narrower then that could indicate biased sampling.
And given that the result has been repeated quite a number of times already, that would be another indicator of bias in the sampling.
* The questions then become (a) what makes one type of neutrino more detectable than another type of neutrino and (b) how do they become sorted in this test.
** This could also be tested by varying the distance between production and detection: if the variation is constant it likely indicates bias but if it varies with distance then not so likely.
Enjoy.
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