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In article <1992Nov10.151421.11274@murdoch.acc.Virginia.EDU>, crb7q@kelvin.seas.Virginia.EDU (Cameron Randale Bass) writes...

>          d) the solar neutrino 'problem'.  Is it a problem?  Do we believe 
>     the calculations.  Why do no two experiments seem to tell us the same 
>     thing?   Is something being left out of the 'standard model' of the 
>     sun?  How much *is* gallium chloride by the ton?

You can look up the price of gallium in the CRC.  It's expensive - so much
so that it delayed these experiments for quite a few years.  The different
experiments are not, as you seem to imply, inconsistent.  They tell us different
things because they are looking at different parts of the neutrino spectrum,
and because the statistics are VERY poor.  But it is possible to construct
a neutrino spectrum consistent with all measurements to date, within
statistical erro bars.  Unfortunately, this result does not allow us to 
distinguish clearly between different physics senarios.

-Scott
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				 have no memory at all of that stage of my 
				 life." - Lewis Thomas