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In article <77499@ut-emx.uucp> johncobb@ut-emx.cc.utexas.edu (John W.
Cobb) suggests a large-scale program of investigating physics at
ultra-low temperatures.

> I beat there are some neat spinoffs from this also. In the "we're responsible
> for NMR" vein of exaggerations, I'll predict that such a program would have
> the benefit of a determination (or strict limits) on the neutrino mass. :>

It would certainly be interesting if this were true!  I realize that
this comment was made more as a joke than anything else, but it sounds
tantalizingly close enough to things I've heard elsewhere that I
imagine it's based on some real (if speculative) discussions.

Every so often, I hear that someone or other has some clever idea for
a low-energy neutrino detector based on some tricky condensed-matter
effect, but I've never learned any details---I have no idea whether or
not I should take this idea seriously.  Does anyone out there know
anything about this?
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