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In article <10NOV199211345007@csa1.lbl.gov> sichase@csa1.lbl.gov (SCOTT I CHASE) 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.

This is something I should have pointed out in my earlier posting
today about solar neutrinos: the different experiments give different
numbers (even when two experiments are measuring the same part of the
neutrino spectrum, they still give different numbers), but the numbers
tend to be statistically consistent with each other---that is, they
fall within each other's one- or two-sigma error bars.

Again: these measurements are very difficult, and have a great many
uncertainties associated with them.  The people who are doing the
measurements know that, and they accordingly report large error
estimates.
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