[fishtank]

This is the most recent article I could find for the recent research into accelerated radioactive decay rates.

This is my judicious follow-up response to the post I did yesterday.

[fishtank]

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[rickmichaels]

Is this available in English?

[Hegewisch Dupa]

so are you saying Schrodinger’s cat is more or less likely to buy it during peak solar activity???

[yefragetuwrabrumuy]

Neutrinos are created as a result of certain types of radioactive decay, or nuclear reactions such as those that take place in the Sun, in nuclear reactors, or when cosmic rays hit atoms.

There are three types, or “flavors”, of neutrinos: electron neutrinos, muon neutrinos and tau neutrinos. Each type is associated with an antiparticle, called an “antineutrino”, which also has neutral electric charge and half-integer spin.

Most neutrinos passing through the Earth emanate from the Sun. About 65 billion (6.5×10x10) solar neutrinos per second pass through every square centimeter perpendicular to the direction of the Sun in the region of the Earth.

Very much like neutrons do in nuclear reactors, neutrinos can induce fission reactions within heavy nuclei. So far, this reaction has not been measured in a laboratory, but is predicted to happen within stars and supernovae. The process affects the abundance of isotopes seen in the universe.

[Moonman62]

This is the most recent article I could find for the recent research into accelerated radioactive decay rates.

This article is about periodic decay rates, not accelerated.

[RossA]

This is an absurd theory.

Neutrino production occurs in the center of the sun and the neutrinos leave the sun immediately. As opposed to the radiative energy which takes a long time (estimated at 1,000,000 years) to reach the surface of the sun. The solar cycle, though not well understood, is an end product of that 1,000,000 years of radiative heat circulation.