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Old 19-June-2007, 10:31 PM
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Great show, Pamela and Fraser! I've finally been catching up on it and I've been really impressed at how accessible all your content is. One slight criticism, though; I'm pretty sure neutrinos were first postulated strictly as a means of momentum and energy conservation, not as an explanation of how quarks change flavor. You yourself said that Wolfgang Pauli first proposed their existence in 1930. Murray Gell-Mann, the founding father of quark theory, was only a baby at the time, having been born in late 1929. I know Gell-Mann was a child prodigy, but even he wasn't that precocious ;-)

OK, that was much more verbose than I had intended, but keep up the great work. It's always fun to hear what you've cooked up for your podcasts.
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