In major breakthrough, scientists announce detection of elusive solar particles produced by fusion

https://justthenews.com ^

[Bookshelf]

The article does not say: Who proposed the nearly 100-year-old theory?

[zeestephen]

Of the four prime forces in nature (electro-magnetic, the weak and strong nuclear forces, and gravity) gravity is the least understood.

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.

[zeestephen]

Re: Who proposed the nearly 100-year-old theory?

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.

[null and void]

Only one way to do this and that is to shut down the reactions in the sun.

We might need to iron out a few details...
One internet to the first FReeper who gets it!

[Ozark Tom]

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.

[17th Miss Regt]

We might need to iron out a few details...

What's the problem? Just pass a law shutting it down! It's not nuclear physics or something like that! (/AOC)

[Savage Beast]

This helps a lot. Thanks!

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.

[SunkenCiv]

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