Oh, and as to particle names, I never ever noticed a pattern.

And don’t get me started on NASA, talk about a HUGE fucking wasted opportunity.

My degrees are all in various biological subjects, so I’m a complete amateur on this stuff, but a fascinated one.

Where did I hear it? The BBC article was the first place I saw the report about neutrinos. I’m not sure where I came across the axions. (And why “axions”? Are they on some kind of axis? Inquiring minds want to know, but nobody explains it to them!)

The Pioneer Anomaly I heard about when the Planetary Society was fundraising to try to save the relevant data, stored on huge old magnetic tapes which were going to be scrapped by NASA because that outfit is now officially run by idiots. I just recently saw an update that almost all the data has been saved, can now be studied, and we should have an answer sometime.

And the gravitomagnetic research I saw first on Barbelith in their Laboratory section. It’s an originally English discussion board about everything. Sometimes great. Sometimes less great. But almost always interesting.

And yes, I know I’m being a complete geek in saying such, but while I may actually be a sociology phd wonk, I do have a degree in astrophysics as well, which I do miss and love still.

(hope you don’t mind me popping over from Shake’s Sis, etc to comment)

So, where do you pick this stuff up from hon?