Comments on: Scientist Smackdown: Are Solar Neutrinos Messing With Matter?

By: Mike

Mike — Mon, 18 Jul 2011 02:23:58 +0000

The research that discovered the varying rate of decay during a solar flare in 2006 did not conclude that the variance was caused by neutrinos, but merely noted the change in decay rate during the storm. To assume the change was caused by neutrino influence is reckless, and hasn’t been established.

By: locale

locale — Fri, 06 May 2011 21:35:47 +0000

Ct’s arduous to search out knowledgeable individuals on this subject, nevertheless , you sound like you already know what you’re talking about! Thanks

By: Melaniki

Melaniki — Sat, 05 Feb 2011 15:52:51 +0000

It is the arrogance of modern humanity, read that as mainly white males since they dominate these fields of “science”, who presume to know all there is to know about a planet on which they are barely a registered dot on the radar, and about a universe they can hardly generate the tiniest reaction in. “We think it, therefore it is so. We say it, therefore it is law.” No wonder my indigenous ancestors locked away the books and sacred records covering these matters for distant generations to discover; generations who would again see nature as a school of learning and the universe as…well a university! This generation is definitely unworthy. An arrogant and pompous group who walk upside down in circles and think they are actually going some place. Sheesh.

By: Kevin

Kevin — Tue, 28 Dec 2010 19:59:59 +0000

My question is, if anything can influence decay rates, can they be completely stopped or accelerated to such an extent that the atoms decay instantly?

By: miki

miki — Wed, 15 Dec 2010 10:08:05 +0000

Is there any neutrinos on earth, if so, in which form ?? Is it possible to find it in a solid form ??

By: Stu

Stu — Tue, 31 Aug 2010 19:27:47 +0000

It sounds like this is the same phenomena detected over 10 years ago:

http://www.21stcenturysciencetech.com/articles/time.html

By: Eliza Strickland

Eliza Strickland — Mon, 30 Aug 2010 21:02:01 +0000

@ Ed White:

Ha! I think you’re right. As I remember it, the quote that made me crack up was something like: “My God, the neutrinos — they’re mutating!”

– Eliza, DISCOVER online news editor

By: Ed White

Ed White — Mon, 30 Aug 2010 18:14:52 +0000

Is it just me or doesn’t this sound like the smoking gun in the plot to the movie 2012? Life imitates art (just not as extremely) or some scientists are taking cues from art rather than reality. Time and research will tell.

By: Sylwester Kornowski

Sylwester Kornowski — Sun, 29 Aug 2010 12:39:32 +0000

As the years go by the probability of finding the Higgs boson(s) and the -inos and s-particles postulated within the supersymmetry is lower and lower. My theory shows that soon we will have to change our vision of nature. The phase transitions of the Newtonian spacetime (it is gas composed of the structureless tachyons) lead, among other things, to the Einstein spacetime – in the ground state it is the field composed of the non-rotating binary systems of NEUTRINOS and its pressure is about 10^44 Pa so it is smooth. The particles bigger than the neutrinos, consist of the binary systems of neutrinos. There are the exchanges of the solar neutrinos for the neutrinos in the binary systems of neutrinos. It suggests that neutrinos should be influencing the rates of radioactive decay in isotopes. My theory starts from only seven parameters and leads to the constants applied in physics and to the other experimental data. The calculations are very simple. I described mathematically the properties of the liquid-like plasma – see the formulae describing the pseudorapidity density in nucleon-nucleon collisions and the temperature and density of the liquid-like plasma.

By: Jarek

Jarek — Sun, 29 Aug 2010 11:41:37 +0000

There is also another news strongly suggesting that we should revise nuclear physics:
http://www.physorg.com/news202020721.html
So maybe they are not just blurry, fluctuating as in QM picture, but rather have some concrete spatial structure near (local?) energy minimum? (analogously to protein folding)
These energy minimas can have different shape – depth, width – and so different statistical dependence on energy carriers like Sun’s neutrinos – comparing such behavior of different isotopes could became the basic tool to finally understand the structure of nucleuses …