Neutrino's still going too fast
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Neutrino's still going too fast
Could someone please tell those nasty neutrino's to stop breaking the speed limit!
http://www.guardian.co.uk/science/2011/ ... than-light
So the moving GPS satellites were not the cause of error, I guess we have to wait for someone to reproduce it somewhere else.
Would be great if it was possible to somehow use a natural source of neutrino's and measure the speed on a galactic scale.
http://www.guardian.co.uk/science/2011/ ... than-light
So the moving GPS satellites were not the cause of error, I guess we have to wait for someone to reproduce it somewhere else.
Would be great if it was possible to somehow use a natural source of neutrino's and measure the speed on a galactic scale.
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Write them a ticket, and send the bad news to their insurance carrier....
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Jeroen Vriesman wrote:
> Would be great if it was possible to somehow use a natural source of neutrino's and measure the speed on a galactic scale.
You might be interested in this measurement for a supernova explosion:
http://www.physicscentral.com/explore/a ... rino-1.cfm
Delay was about 3 hours over that distance. Delay could also have been caused by the light being slowed down in the gases index of refraction or scattering before escaping.
If the CERN results are OK the delay would have been much larger (year?) Perhaps different flavour of neutrinos? New physics (neat!)
Note the last comment in the article about measuring only half of the expected solar flux (at the time) from the sun. This was resolved later by discovering neutrino oscillations between three flavours.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Neutrino_oscillation
That resolved the solar issue but there may be lots we still dont understand about these little gems!
Too bad these novae dont blow up on cue, that would be handy.
> Would be great if it was possible to somehow use a natural source of neutrino's and measure the speed on a galactic scale.
You might be interested in this measurement for a supernova explosion:
http://www.physicscentral.com/explore/a ... rino-1.cfm
Delay was about 3 hours over that distance. Delay could also have been caused by the light being slowed down in the gases index of refraction or scattering before escaping.
If the CERN results are OK the delay would have been much larger (year?) Perhaps different flavour of neutrinos? New physics (neat!)
Note the last comment in the article about measuring only half of the expected solar flux (at the time) from the sun. This was resolved later by discovering neutrino oscillations between three flavours.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Neutrino_oscillation
That resolved the solar issue but there may be lots we still dont understand about these little gems!
Too bad these novae dont blow up on cue, that would be handy.
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Hi Guys,
Here is a good balanced lecture on the neutrino problem.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mXUqxdxilfk
Note, it's quite a long lecture..
PS: When these neutrino detectors are eventually decommissioned, there is going to be a heck of a lot of PMT's for sale on ebay
Steven
Here is a good balanced lecture on the neutrino problem.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mXUqxdxilfk
Note, it's quite a long lecture..
PS: When these neutrino detectors are eventually decommissioned, there is going to be a heck of a lot of PMT's for sale on ebay
Steven
http://www.gammaspectacular.com - Gamma Spectrometry Systems
https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Steven_Sesselmann - Various papers and patents on RG
https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Steven_Sesselmann - Various papers and patents on RG
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This is a strange article about the "speedy neutrino problem":
http://www.reuters.com/article/2011/11/ ... ZX20111121
It says that "they cannot go faster than light because they would have lost more energy if they did"
Which is a bit strange, if faster than light is possible, the only thing we know about it is that we don't know anything about it.
Superluminal speed contradicts any known theory for as far as I know, so how is it possible to say anything about the energy of these particles?
The Cherenkov radiation analogy seems to make sense, neutrino's loosing energy by polarization of the medium because of their (very small) magnetic moment.
But extrapolating that to speeds faster than light in vacuum and drawing conclusions from that seems a bit strange to me, any relativistic calculation would give imaginary results for the interaction time between the neutrino and the medium, which doesn't make sense if time is one-dimensional.
Trying to apply theory of relativity for something faster thank light is a contradiction anyway.
Rich Normand:
63ns on 725km is more than 4 years on 160000 lightyears, definitely more than 3 hours.
http://www.reuters.com/article/2011/11/ ... ZX20111121
It says that "they cannot go faster than light because they would have lost more energy if they did"
Which is a bit strange, if faster than light is possible, the only thing we know about it is that we don't know anything about it.
Superluminal speed contradicts any known theory for as far as I know, so how is it possible to say anything about the energy of these particles?
The Cherenkov radiation analogy seems to make sense, neutrino's loosing energy by polarization of the medium because of their (very small) magnetic moment.
But extrapolating that to speeds faster than light in vacuum and drawing conclusions from that seems a bit strange to me, any relativistic calculation would give imaginary results for the interaction time between the neutrino and the medium, which doesn't make sense if time is one-dimensional.
Trying to apply theory of relativity for something faster thank light is a contradiction anyway.
Rich Normand:
63ns on 725km is more than 4 years on 160000 lightyears, definitely more than 3 hours.
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You've got to remember that the theory of relativity is just that... a theory. Even Einstein said it wasn't finished and there's still much of the atomic and quantum level physics that we've yet to understand. Gravitational fields affect velocities even on the atomic scale, as does, entropic/exothermic effects. Who knows what else plays a part in defining the luminal speed.
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Maybe the "lightspeed" is higher for neutrino's.
They don't have any relation with electric charge, just a tiny magnetic moment.
With " lightspeed" being 1/sqrt(permitivity x permeability)
It's just that the permitivity for neutrino's is the permitivity of vacuüm, and SiO2 and water are diamagnetic.
Does anyone here know the average relative permeability of rock?
For some common diamagnetic values a difference of 60ns over a distance of 750 km seems normal.
Or am I talking nonsense?
They don't have any relation with electric charge, just a tiny magnetic moment.
With " lightspeed" being 1/sqrt(permitivity x permeability)
It's just that the permitivity for neutrino's is the permitivity of vacuüm, and SiO2 and water are diamagnetic.
Does anyone here know the average relative permeability of rock?
For some common diamagnetic values a difference of 60ns over a distance of 750 km seems normal.
Or am I talking nonsense?
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Or in other words: the relative magnetic permeability of rock should be 0.999949 to explain the 60ns over a distance of 725km.
The neutrino only has magnetic interaction with matter.
For any other particle the "lightspeed" is lower than c, because of the >1 relative permitivity.
But for the neutrino only the magnetic interaction matters.
I wonder how fast a neutrino would go in a superconductor.
The neutrino only has magnetic interaction with matter.
For any other particle the "lightspeed" is lower than c, because of the >1 relative permitivity.
But for the neutrino only the magnetic interaction matters.
I wonder how fast a neutrino would go in a superconductor.
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Are any of the "confirming" data for c being the maximum attainable velocity, not produced in electromagnetic accelerators?
A simplistic solution might be that all particles with electromagnetic parts i.e. charges, whether or not neutral... may be limited to c because of electromagnetic interaction with a field that has a finite propagation velocity.
The old "luminiferous aether" ideas struggled with implications of this. Assuming that electromagnetic waves were disturbances in some unknown medium (the aether), the observed enormous velocity of c, led to requirements of simultaneously impossibly high density and impossibly low dissipation.
Desperation physics to the rescue: "Assume this doesn't happen...."
Ions, (protons and electrons) and photons, are all electromagnetically influence-able
hence could share this observed limiting velocity. Non- interacting particles - neutrinos and what else (??) may not be so restricted.
Measuring "non-interacting" things is not easy. And other critters in the particle zoo, may have so far escaped detection with this amazingly simple technique.
Of course, the easy answer, and far less interesting, is that there's a mistake hidden away, waiting to leap out and teach humility to the scientific community, once again.
Dave Cooper
A simplistic solution might be that all particles with electromagnetic parts i.e. charges, whether or not neutral... may be limited to c because of electromagnetic interaction with a field that has a finite propagation velocity.
The old "luminiferous aether" ideas struggled with implications of this. Assuming that electromagnetic waves were disturbances in some unknown medium (the aether), the observed enormous velocity of c, led to requirements of simultaneously impossibly high density and impossibly low dissipation.
Desperation physics to the rescue: "Assume this doesn't happen...."
Ions, (protons and electrons) and photons, are all electromagnetically influence-able
hence could share this observed limiting velocity. Non- interacting particles - neutrinos and what else (??) may not be so restricted.
Measuring "non-interacting" things is not easy. And other critters in the particle zoo, may have so far escaped detection with this amazingly simple technique.
Of course, the easy answer, and far less interesting, is that there's a mistake hidden away, waiting to leap out and teach humility to the scientific community, once again.
Dave Cooper
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The fact that the velocity measured is close to c says it is either an error or an adjustment is needed to describe the effect with current physics. It is not an instantaneous speed, it is close to c and this is similar to metamaterials that have a negative index of refraction. Interesting to see how this one plays out but I think no new physics here, just a little more understanding.
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What I mean is that the world for a neutrino is only a collection of magnetic material properties and nothing else.
So normally the lightspeed is c0/sqrt(er * ur),
Where c0 is the speed of light in vacuüm, er is the relative permitivity and ur is the relative permeability of the material.
But for the neutrino's it's c0/sqrt(ur) because for the neutrino there is no electric interaction with matter, just magnetic interaction.
So in a diamagnetic material the neutrino has a speed higher than c0, even if er >1.
That would also explain why they don't loose energy by cherenkov radiation.
They are traveling at the speed of light, it's just that for neutrino's the speed of light >c0
This is not in conflict with relativity, relativity just says that a particle with zero rest Mass will travel at maximum possible speed.
But this maximum speed is not lightspeed, it's c0/sqrt(er * ur), Where er=1 if electric interaction is irrelevant.
It would be easy to verivy by placing a strong diamagnetic material in the bram and see if they arrive sooner.
Relativity seems a bit more relative than expected.
So normally the lightspeed is c0/sqrt(er * ur),
Where c0 is the speed of light in vacuüm, er is the relative permitivity and ur is the relative permeability of the material.
But for the neutrino's it's c0/sqrt(ur) because for the neutrino there is no electric interaction with matter, just magnetic interaction.
So in a diamagnetic material the neutrino has a speed higher than c0, even if er >1.
That would also explain why they don't loose energy by cherenkov radiation.
They are traveling at the speed of light, it's just that for neutrino's the speed of light >c0
This is not in conflict with relativity, relativity just says that a particle with zero rest Mass will travel at maximum possible speed.
But this maximum speed is not lightspeed, it's c0/sqrt(er * ur), Where er=1 if electric interaction is irrelevant.
It would be easy to verivy by placing a strong diamagnetic material in the bram and see if they arrive sooner.
Relativity seems a bit more relative than expected.
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Bram=beam, typo in previous post.