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From: henry@utzoo.UUCP (Henry Spencer)
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Subject: Re: Giant Magnet
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Date: Thu, 1-Nov-84 14:58:23 EST
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Posted: Thu Nov  1 14:58:23 1984
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> > ... the main
> > particles which escape and head to West Chicago are a very
> > small number of muons, and a very large number of neutrinos.  
> > Neither of these pose a health hazard to citizens of West Chicago.
> 
> Perhaps more accurate:
> "Neither of these pose a known health hazard to citizens of West Chicago."

The citizens of West Chicago are probably exposed to more muons from
cosmic rays than from Fermilab.  And there are many thousands of
neutrinos passing through your body at any given instant, most of them
originating in the Sun.  If either of these is a health hazard, the
citizens of West Chicago have bigger worries than Fermilab.
-- 
				Henry Spencer @ U of Toronto Zoology
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