Wednesday, 27 February 2013

Promising New Technique for Probing Earth's Deep Interior

Washington DC (SPX) Feb 26, 2013



researchers at Amherst College in Massachusetts and the University of Texas at Austin have described a new technique based in particle physics that might one day reveal, in more detail than ever before, the composition and characteristics of the deep Earth.

There's just one catch: the technique relies on a fifth force of nature that has not yet been detected, but some particle physicists