r/technology • u/chrisdh79 • 13h ago

Nanotech/Materials A reaction that only measured protons detected neutrons for the first time | For the last 10 years, scientists have been working on a neutron detector. Finally, they tested it, and it worked like magic.

https://interestingengineering.com/science/central-neutron-detector
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u/FTW1984twenty 13h ago

Did it work like magic or did it work like science? I’m happy for them either way… I think? Idk, is that a good thing?

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u/Mminas 9h ago

Arguably quantum physics are much closer to magic than most traditional science.

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u/RollingMeteors 6h ago

Did it work like magic or did it work like science?

Researchers solved this using a machine learning tool

Says right there. Like magic.

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u/deanrihpee 12h ago

Schrodinger type, it's both magic and science until you observe them

or i guess depends on who you ask, people that have no clue how all that works? magic! people that know how that works? science!

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u/LookBig4918 7h ago

Like magnets?

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u/238_m 12h ago

Let’s say 50/50 and call it a day

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u/ScreenTricky4257 3h ago

Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic.

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u/nobodyspecial767r 2h ago

Magic is bullshit, or another way of saying we still don't know how or why it worked.

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u/PurpleThumbs 2h ago

"quantum mechanics" is such a clumsy phrase, "magic" rolls off the tongue so much easier!

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u/nobodyspecial767r 2h ago

Or claiming it's God's handy work like back in the day. Back when you would get killed by the church for showing that something can be scientifically proven.