For the Physics Hobbiests and Enthusiasts: Neutronon Confirmed

[L0n3Gr3yW0lf]

It's Official: For The First Time Neutrinos Have Been Detected in a Collider Experiment

Hello there. I've been a fan of Physics and Astrophysics since I was a kid (but really bad at math) and I love reading articles (but I can't read scientific papers) about them. I am quite excited at the potential of confirming the existince of Neutrinos and what information they can reveal about the subatomic construct of our Universe and what it means for Quantum Physics.

Anyone else interested about it or other aspects of Physics?

 

[John King]

Yes.

 

[John King]

Even if a photon (or neutrino) has a mass below our limit of measurement, there are so many of both, that we must change our entire view of the Universe in order to account for their combined mass ...

 

[L0n3Gr3yW0lf]

I listened to Neil De'Grass Tyson's Star Talk podcast yesterday and one thing that was said that really put a perspective on my lack of imagination and perspective (I know) was: A Planck unit is like a tree is to the size of the entire Universe.

 

[John King]

I listened to Neil De'Grass Tyson's Star Talk podcast yesterday and one thing that was said that really put a perspective on my lack of imagination and perspective (I know) was: A Planck unit is like a tree is to the size of the entire Universe.

I think Professor Brian Cox has a far better grasp of these things.
He is also starting to question the whole concept of the big bang theory, something that I have personally disputed for well over 40 years.

 

[L0n3Gr3yW0lf]

I think Professor Brian Cox has a far better grasp of these things.
He is also starting to question the whole concept of the big bang theory, something that I have personally disputed for well over 40 years.

Dr. Brian Greene , theoretical physicist, was the guest of the podcast and the person I quoted.

 

[Herman]

Yip!
It's clear that the standard model needs to be extended.
Guess physics is in need of "Erfolg".

 

[Herman]

I love theoretical physics.

 

[John King]

Dr. Brian Greene , theoretical physicist, was the guest of the podcast and the person I quoted.

I far prefer a pragmatic approach.

Theories should explain the facts as observed.
If the facts disagree with the theory, the theory should be discarded.

Fundamentals of hypothesis formulation and testing.

 

[Brian]

The first detection of Neutrinos was in 1970, using a Hydrogen Bubble Chamber. I remember that from the Physics class I took in 1975. As I remember- A neutrino has about a 50% chance of interacting with matter when passing through the Earth. I also remember a proposed project from that time of using a Neutrino based communication system with an atomic reactor as a Transmitter and a Hydrogen Bubble Chamber as the receiver. The data rate was slow, but you could communicate between any station on the Earth. It did not get funded.

This new article is in regard to detecting them in a collider experiment.

I'll be really excited if someone confirms the existence of Tachyons. Apply infinite force to slow down to the speed of light, and travel with infinite velocity at absolute zero.

 

[John King]

A friend of mine, Dr Grant Gartrel, first postulated the theoretical basis for tachyons in South Australia many decades ago.

 

[John King]

Yip!
It's clear that the standard model needs to be extended.
Guess physics is in need of "Erfolg".

Herman, the first change I would suggest would be to remove the term "standard model" from the title. It assumes that: 1) mathematical cosmologists know anything much about the Universe; and 2) we can accurately estimate the amount of baryonic matter in the Universe; and 3) that the Universe is bounded. We know none of these things at even a first approximation.

 

[Brian]

Tachyon - Wikipedia

en.wikipedia.org

I first read about them in a Sci Fi story by James Blish. The term tachyon was coined by Gerald Feinberg in a 1967 paper titled "Possibility of faster-than-light particles", after he read the story.

In 1975 wrote my Freshman Physics paper on them, postulating that Gravitons were in fact Tachyons and thus explain how Gravity could escape from a Black Hole. Take the Negative solution of a Lorentz transformation, get Tachyons that can only travel faster than light.

 

[Brian]

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For the Trekkies, and some history: James Blish adapted the Star Trek scripts to short stories in a series of books. His Novel "Spock Must Die", 1970, - is the first original story in the Star Trek line after the series ended.
Tachyons are central to the plot of the story. I still have the book, and the original James Blish short story adaptations- all bought new..