Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.2 beta 4/10/84; site seismo.UUCP Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!burl!mgnetp!ihnp4!mhuxl!houxm!houxz!vax135!floyd!cmcl2!seismo!flinn From: flinn@seismo.UUCP (E. A. Flinn) Newsgroups: net.physics Subject: Re: What are axions? Message-ID: <1544@seismo.UUCP> Date: Mon, 18-Jun-84 18:40:24 EDT Article-I.D.: seismo.1544 Posted: Mon Jun 18 18:40:24 1984 Date-Received: Fri, 22-Jun-84 09:45:42 EDT References: <483@cornell.UUCP> Organization: Center for Seismic Studies, Arlington, VA Lines: 7 I don't know what present-day axions are, but about ten years ago a Dr. Anton Schneiderov used to show up at APS and AGU meeting and give papers on his kind of axions, hypothetical zero-mass particles that Schneiderov thought pervaded the entire universe. He attempted to put an upper bound on the axion flux through the earth from observed free oscillations of the earth.