http://www.einstein-online.info/spotlights/light_deflection.html
Posted on 06/04/2018 7:12:49 AM PDT by Red Badger
How interesting.
Being all Science Fictioney here...sounds like what Star Trek used for transporter beams.
There must be a bunch of math students looking for a summer project so, what are the chances that the existence of these sub atomic particles will enhance and alternately what are the chances that the non existence will diminish our future? Double spaced to a maximum of 20,000 words plus appendixes.
If they are sterile, Then why are there so many of them?...................
If you have a good testable idea, you will have a Nobel Prize.
My basic idea is that these ‘sterile’ neutrinos are actually neutrinos that happen to hit the detector at the moment of their switchover. Like an object that is going up until gravity makes it reverse course...................
Will the Standard Model be superseded in our lifetimes? Or just fudged a little?
Standard Model 1.01
The sterile neutrinos are like ordinary neutrinos as they are spin-1/2 particles that do not possess electric or color charge. But, the sterile neutrinos do not carry weak nuclear or hypercharge. The streile neutrinos are right handed and ordinary neutrinos are left handed.
They can not be normal neutrinos during a switchover.
More here https://arxiv.org/search/?query=sterile+neutrino&searchtype=all&source=header
We will never know as much as we don’t know.
Oh well, there goes my Nobel Prize...................
“mysterious particles that pass through matter without interacting with it at all”
major problem with this :
you cannot detect something that all your detection devices cant give you a reading on (requires “interaction”)
makes only theoretical any indirect ‘invisible’ effects (which then could be any number of other ‘hidden’ ‘invisible’ effects)
premature declaration?
As far back as I remember vinilla plain ‘neutrinos’ dont interact with much anyway, so might be more a case of insufficient detection devices (failure which isnt really news...) ???
Here is an interesting application of neutrino detection:
Finding clandestine reactors is not as important as monitoring known ones, says physicist Patrick Huber of Virginia Tech. Reactors give off heat that can be detected easily with infrared sensitive satellites. We knew where all the Soviet reactors are, and now we know where they are in Russia and North Korea. What we don’t always know is how and when they are being used.
In any country where international treaties allow access, Huber says, small, refrigerator-sized neutrino detectors could be placed nearby to reveal whether reactors were unexpectedly turned on or off. Moreover, he says, neutrinos from different sources have a distinctive energy signature, and that can be used to distinguish plutonium from uranium, and possibly to reveal if someone diverted plutonium from a nuclear reactor.
Warning Warning...
marked for reading, which may possibly happen.
Not necessarily. Photons, among other particles, don't.
Tell that to a black hole.
http://www.einstein-online.info/spotlights/light_deflection.html
Hey, I know. That's what's so crazy. Photons have zero mass (citation), which makes sense because according to General Relativity, anything with mass would require infinite energy to get up to light speed.
Yet they can be captured by a black hole and are bent by items with gravity wells. Almost like space is moving into the black hole faster than a photon travels.
Hey, I wonder if I'm on to something.
It takes infinite energy to accelerate anything with mass to the speed of light.
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