[SciShow] An Ancient Roman Shipwreck May Explain the Universe (www.youtube.com)
from threelonmusketeers@sh.itjust.works to archaeology@mander.xyz on 10 Aug 2024 01:28
https://sh.itjust.works/post/23469888

cross-posted from: sh.itjust.works/post/23469886

A 31 minute SciShow video on how lead ingots which were recovered from a Roman shipwreck enabled the CUORE experiment’s search for neutrinoless double beta decay, and the challenges of ethically sourcing “low background material”.

Has anyone set aside lead (and other materials) as a stockpile of low background material for future generations of physicists? Seems like something The Long Now Foundation might do.

#archaeology