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Posted on 11/28/2020 6:38:24 PM PST by Red Badger
Theory was first postulated in 1930s.
Scientists this week announced the landmark detection of elusive particles generated from the fusion of hydrogen in the Sun, confirming a nearly-100-year-old theory about the ways in which many stars generate energy.
In a paper published in Nature, a team of researchers called the Borexino Collaboration reported detecting the presence of neutrinos produced during the carbon–nitrogen–oxygen cycle of fusion deep within the Sun.
The scientists stated that the energy produced in the CNO cycle represents just a small fraction of the total energy output of our Sun, but “in massive stars, this is the dominant process of energy production.”
“This work provides experimental evidence of the primary mechanism for the stellar conversion of hydrogen into helium in the Universe,” the paper states.
That detection was made “using the highly radiopure, large-volume, liquid-scintillator detector of Borexino, an experiment located at the underground Laboratori Nazionali del Gran Sasso in Italy,” the paper reports.
Recent technological improves to the detector allowed the scientists to more accurately detect the neutrinos in question.
The article does not say: Who proposed the nearly 100-year-old theory?
It is helpful to me to think about gravity as being something that deforms the space around some kind of object and causes smaller objects to “roll” towards the indentation of space around that object, or actually roll into the “hole” created by a Black Hole.
I think the acceleration comparison was created by Einstein.
It is certainly an interesting and apt comparison, but it has never helped me to visualize what gravity is.
Curiously, gravity can signal the presence of a neutrino, but the signal is so small it is almost impossible to detect it with current instruments.
From memory, they currently detect neutrinos from the flash of light created when a neutrino strikes an electron.
Hope this helps.
Two German scientists.
Carl Friedrich von Weizsäcker and Hans Bethe, around 1937.
Bethe won a Nobel Prize for that and other solar research.
Weizsacker held a number of leadership positions in post-war Germany, but his career was forever tainted because he helped the Nazis with atomic bomb research.
We might need to iron out a few details...
One internet to the first FReeper who gets it!
Would you settle for energy from multi-proton pseudo-annihilation? It’s described as such, although an in-exact analogy— what exits the experiment are flavors of mesons with some energy carried away by (likely) neutrino to balance the books.
Objections from the Standard Model choir? The experimentalist have their data taken from well-shielded experiments. Three different groups in Iceland, Norway, and Sweden continue to expand upon the work originated of University Gothenburg.
What's the problem? Just pass a law shutting it down! It's not nuclear physics or something like that! (/AOC)
The acceleration bit confuses me, but I can understand how, as you say, objects "roll" towards the indentation of space around an object.
Do you understand how that could cause a wormhole and shorten the vast distances? I don't.
Thanks! I really appreciate your help in understanding these things.
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