Anybody into particle physics?

Question

I find it interesting that neutrinos can shift form as they travel through space, solids, as measured in heavy water facilities...

Some have asserted that neutrinos are the fundamental commonality in the universe.... even with religious implications ( by the religious)...

Your thoughts?

Answer 1

Neutrinos changing flavor seemingly at will certainly is a puzzling phenomenon. I would be hesitant to call them any more fundamental then another fundamental particle however.

Certainly other fundamental particles have caused science a great deal of frustration trying to pin them down; gravitons, tachyons, scalar particles like the higgs boson to name a few.

This simply means there is plenty of work for the new generations of cosmologists, particle physicists, high energy physicists, and astrophysicists.

There have been similar mysteries in the past, some far more puzzling. At the time they may have seemed almost mystical, but eventually some insight allowed us to explain, or at least predict the strangeness. The ultraviolet catastrophe gave rise to quantum, light wave propagation gave rise to relativity. Who knows what neutrino behavior will result in, but religion would be an awfully disappointing answer, it would certainly make my education choice seem inconsequential. I guess it's a good thing I double majored, just in case.

Answer 2

You had to make me google it didn't you! From what I gather (and this is purely speculative) is that the neutrino problem is a problem of data. To put it quite simply, there is just too much information bombarding our planet from super-radioactive sources such as the sun. This is parrellal to our progress with DNA; and thus, perhaps, they are fundamental pieces of science LOL!

Given how difficult neurinos have been to recent experiements, I would guess that they operate upon a different frequency; that they aren't just matter, but pure Godlike energy. That's probably the religious implication. But I think the problem is with nuclear fusion - it's a holy grail, never to be achieved. If we were to create it, armaggedeon, apocalypse, bang...

Answer 3

Hi Smarty Pants:)

The first time I read about neutrinos had no mass! The last time I read they had mass! So now they must have some religious implications...;) lol

Now I find it even more interesting that they go trough things without disturbing anything...Now that they *became religious and* have mass!

Answer 4

I thought neutrinos were a breakfast cereal, seeing as they come in three "flavors": electron, muon and tau. And I was so looking forward to opening a box of yummy neutritious neutrinos, and finding the 'bonus' toy; an antineutrino, or even a boson's whistle..
Please excuse my ap-Pauli-ing attempt at humour.

Answer 5

Newton's third regulation (equivalent reaction) won't be the right automobile for this; easy inertia (first regulation) works greater advantageous. The impression led to an acceleration of the vehicle, and of the driving force's physique; the pinnacle, unsupported, tended to stay interior a similar state of action (i.e., stopped), and this positioned a stress on her neck.

Answer 6

Religion is a fiction of intelligent minds. If they have religious implications, it is meaningless to the cosmos.

Answer 7

Everybody needs something to believe in.
I believe I'm going to have a bit more Scotch ☺

Doug

Answer 8

Thats kind of cool. But I like suction better