SpaceGazelle wrote:90% of people live in the Northern hemisphere.
Lord_Griff wrote:Cool, will check it out. Should I drop some acid before reading?
Kow wrote:Well Oliver Sacks did and he's a doctor, so it can't do any harm.
Kow wrote:No, but he had some of his "patients" made into books.
Kow wrote:Surely it's a bang-o-meter.
The name of the detector is a pun, which was bestowed upon it by Fred Reines, one of the scientists working on the project. The name is derived from the Hindi word "bhang", a locally grown variety of cannabis which is smoked or drunk to induce intoxicating effects, the joke being that one would have to be on drugs to believe the bhangmeter detectors would work properly. This is in contrast to a "bangmeter" one might associate with detection of nuclear explosions.
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