Posted by Scott Ellis (216.87.95.64) on January 01, 2003 at 22:21:05:
According to my January 2003 issue of Discover Magazine:
"For physicists, 2002 may go down as the year of the neutrino. In October, Raymond Davis Jr. of the University of Pennsylvania and Brookhaven National Laboratory shared a Nobel Prize for detecting solar neutrinos and discovering that the sun emits far fewer than expected of these ghostly subatomic particles - a finding that exposed a serious flaw in our understanding of fundamental natural laws."
Raymond Davis Jr. - Nobel Prize 2002
http://www.bnl.gov/bnlweb/raydavis/research.htm
Background:
Beta Radioactivity
http://hyperphysics.phy-astr.gsu.edu/hbase/nuclear/beta.htmlWhat's a neutrino?
http://www.ps.uci.edu/~superk/neutrino.htmlrelated: Mysterious Cosmic Rays
http://focus.aps.org/story/v2/st33excerpt from above (my bold):
"Earth's outer atmosphere is regularly blasted by subatomic particles packing so much energy that they defy explanation. These ultrahigh energy cosmic rays (UHECRs) have baffled physicists for decades because no one has found sources powerful enough to generate them in our cosmic neighborhood, yet they could not have traveled far without losing energy. One proposed explanation for UHECRs from 16 years ago has gotten increased attention recently because it requires that neutrinos have mass - a previously heretical idea that now seems probable."Neutrino Enigmas
http://wwwlapp.in2p3.fr/neutrinos/anenigmes.htmlHistory of the neutrinos
http://wwwlapp.in2p3.fr/neutrinos/aneut.htmlThe Ultimate Neutrino Page
http://cupp.oulu.fi/neutrino/
As a long time proponent of "push gravity," I have always been fascinated by the neutrino and its possible relationship to gravity. It is also one of the few "glimpses into the unknown" allowed by established Physics today. The neutrino's existence was postulated by Wolfgang Pauli in 1930 to explain the apparent "disappearance" of linear momentum in the nuclear phenomenon called "beta-decay."
Beta-decay is the spontaneous phenomenon inside an atom in which a neutron disintegrates into its constituent parts, a proton and an electron. It is one of the most common nuclear reactions in the universe, and it has been theorized that we live in a dense neutrino sea (reminiscent of the "ether").
The problem is that during beta decay the proton remains stationary, while the electron zips away at an extremely high speed (nearly the speed of light). Now the electron is known to have mass (however small), which means that it must have momentum (mass x velocity) as it speeds away from the proton. So according to the Conservation Laws, there should be a "recoil effect" on the proton that is not detected. The neutrino was introduced as a mechanism to somehow carry off the energy or "missing momentum," in order to make the equations work out.
So we are bathed in a sea of strange particles that are carrying some kind of primeval linear momentum with them. Sounds like a possible push gravity mechanism to me!
Neutrino/Push Gravity Theories...
Gravity - Push Theory
http://www.topology.org/sci/grav.html
excerpt from above:
"The push theory of gravity would imply that the gravitational field strength inside the Sun would be lower than predicted from the inverse square law. Consequently the temperature inside the Sun would be lower, and the rate of neutrino production would be lower. This could explain the deficit of neutrinos coming out of the Sun."
Neutrinos as cause of gravity
http://mywebpage.netscape.com/clarencedulaney/PUSH+GRAVITY
Neutrinos as cause of gravity/zpe?
http://www.keelynet.com/interact/archive/00002308.htm
Michael Gelman's "Gravity Explained"
http://gravity.ontheinter.net/
Best,
Scott