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Solar neutrinos and Gravitational differences of a chemical nature
The solar neutrino problem is discussed in the Physics FAQ at:
http://math.ucr.edu/home/baez/physic..._neutrino.html In essence, the detected number of neutrinos is consistently smaller than the expected number based on the known nuclear reaction energy that is released. Another seemingly unrelated anomaly is consistently reported by Mario Nanni in a series of papers in Apeiron Journal with titles such as "Gravitational differences of a chemical nature", and at last someone else has taken pity on him and been involved in additional experiments which confirm the earlier results. Some papers: Nanni, M. 1997. "Simple Experiments to Test the Dependence of Gravitational Action on Chemical Composition", Apeiron, vol. 4, no. 1 Nanni, M. 2000, "Dependence of Gravitational Action on Chemical Composition: New Series of Experiments", Apeiron, vol. 7, no. 3 -4 Nanni, M. 2001, "Gravitational Differences of a Chemical Nature" Apeiron, Vol. 8, No. 1, January 2001. The variations are of the order of several parts in 10^-5 and many times larger than the experimental errors. I think the altitude difference is several thousand meters. What the experiments show is that the relative weights of different chemical substances vary with altitude. Of course the proportion of relative weights at any one place is also the proportion of the relative masses. These experiments undermine assumptions made by most physicists (other than Narlikar etc) in dealing with cosmological problems. However it is always a good idea to test assumptions thoroughly. It seems to me that if these effects found by Nanni are real then they might also show up in measurements of isotope masses if they have been done at different altitudes (although these are performed in a different way so they also might not show up). The variation in altitude of the isotope mass measuring laboratories is likely to be a lot less than the work done by Nanni, but the accuracy is perhaps also correspondingly greater. Does anyone know where one might obtain isotope mass measurements listed by different laboratories? Now, back to the subject of this post, which is "Solar neutrinos and Gravitational differences of a chemical nature". If there are variations in relative isotope masses with altitude or gravitational potential, then these variations would likely be much more significant in the solar core than they are over several kilometres vertically on the earth. If such were the case, then the energy released in the production of solar neutrinos, being dependant on mass differences, might well be very different to what it is for the same reaction on earth. So Nanni's observations may well provide a clear explanation for the solar neutrino problem. -- Ray Tomes http://ray.tomes.biz/ http://www.cyclesresearchinstitute.org/ |
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In sci.astro.research Ray Tomes wrote:
The solar neutrino problem is discussed in the Physics FAQ at: http://math.ucr.edu/home/baez/physic..._neutrino.html In essence, the detected number of neutrinos is consistently smaller than the expected number based on the known nuclear reaction energy that is released. At the top of that web page we find the words | Updated 1998 by John Bahcall. | Updated 1994 by SIC. In other words, that web page is 7 years old. We've learned a *lot* about the solar neutrino problem in the last 7 years. For a nice non-technical overview of what we now know, see Bahcall's article http://nobelprize.org/physics/articles/bahcall/ (= physics/0406040) # The three years 2001 to 2003 were the golden years of solar neutrino # research. In this period, scientists solved a mystery with which they # had been struggling for four decades. The solution turned out to be # important for both physics and for astronomy. In this article, I tell # the story of those fabulous three years. For a more technical account, see McDonald's review article astro-ph/0406253: Title: Solar Neutrino Measurements Authors: A.B. McDonald Comments: Review Article on Solar neutrino experiments, 18 pages, 4 figures, submitted to Focus Issue on Neutrino Physics, to be published in New Journal of Physics (www.njp.org) Journal-ref: New J.Phys. 6 (2004) 121 Abstract: A review of solar neutrino experiments is provided, including experimental measurements to date and proposed future measurements. Experiments to date have provided a clear determination that solar neutrinos are undergoing flavor transformation and that the dominant mechanism for this transformation is oscillation. The mixing parameters are well defined and limits are placed on sub-dominant modes. The measurements also provide strong confirmation of solar model calculations. New experiments under development will study neutrino oscillation parameters and sub-dominant modes with greater precision and will investigate solar fluxes further, concentrating primarily on the low energy pp, $^7$Be, pep and CNO reactions. Any new theory of the solar neutrino problems needs to confront -- in a *detailed* *quantitative* manner -- the extensive data described in these papers (as well as much other data, notably the high-precision helioseismological measurements of sound speed at various depths within the sun). ciao, -- -- "Jonathan Thornburg (remove -animal to reply)" Max-Planck-Institut fuer Gravitationsphysik (Albert-Einstein-Institut), Golm, Germany, "Old Europe" http://www.aei.mpg.de/~jthorn/home.html "Washing one's hands of the conflict between the powerful and the powerless means to side with the powerful, not to be neutral." -- quote by Freire / poster by Oxfam |
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Jonathan Thornburg -- remove -animal to reply wrote:
Any new theory of the solar neutrino problems needs to confront -- in a *detailed* *quantitative* manner -- the extensive data described in these papers (as well as much other data, notably the high-precision helioseismological measurements of sound speed at various depths within the sun). It should also be pointed out that oscillation of antineutrinos from reactors, and of neutrinos & antineutrinos from decay of cosmic ray secondaries have also been observed, and those observations must also be explained by any successful theory. Paul |
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