Neutrinos: 'Ghost Particles' Can Interact With Light After All
The Italian Ghost Particle 10.14.2015 by ADRIAN HINDES
My audio on the tau neutrino:
This is graviton ring. I wanted to talk for a while about the tau neutrino and its place within the century of science, the nineteen hundreds, about seven years ago, scientists found the tau neutrino, which is a fundamental building block of matter. It is the final building block, bbc news called the tau neutrino a ghostly particle, partly because it took six million tries to find the four events that proved the tau neutrino exists. The magic number of building blocks of matter appears to be six, that is, there are six quarks and six leptons, the tau neutrino, which is a lepton was the last of the dozen, the tau lepton, which is what the tau neutrino becomes after hitting an atomic nucleus, such as iron, quickly disappears. The only evidence the tau lepton leaves is a one-millimeter track.
Not to worry, though, that tiny one millimeter track probably has many billions of smaller superparticles enough to keep scientists busy for at least a hundred years of searching. These superstrings might be the defining line between hard physicists who do not think they exist, or at least can never be proven to exist, and a more imaginative set of scientists, this imaginative set of scientists, perhaps we could call them string theorists, may need a different name for their type of science. Physics seems to be taken by hard matter. Superstrings are probably not what any one would call matter. They may be pure energy. A term that Spock used in the original star trek series, in fact superstrings might be locked up for ever in a world of science fiction. The quantum world where everything that can happen does and even that which cannot happen happens. I think this might be what motivated me to write my movie script, or at least the story-line for the script, I needed a professional ghostwriter to actually produce a screenplay.
The first lepton discovered was our old friend the electron about 1897. It took forty years to find the second lepton, a muon, and another forty years to find the tau lepton in 1976, the tau neutrino showed up about twenty-four years later in 2000. The tau lepton is the only one that can decay into hadrons. This might be a good point at which to say I do not have any actual knowledge of this type of evidence, I only know what I am told so I have included the links to these ideas and discoveries for anyone to follow their own trail of particle physics and string theories. Happy hunting, oh I almost forgot, hadrons are a mixed bag of matter and energy, fermions named for my hero, Enrico Fermi, and bosons, which I think were named after Bose, Einstein's friend from India, Bose and Einstein thought up the bose-einstein condensates, which appeared seventy years later in the laboratory, bosons, are considered to be virtual particles, maybe just an idea of how any type of energy becomes involved with matter. However, there is so much solid evidence of bosons that no one doubts they exist.
Photons, for example, which humans use to see nearly everything that exists, are considered to be virtual bosons, meaning they are probably fundamental, made out of nothing but pure energy. However, there are some characteristics of photons which also seem to divide scientists. The photon wave has been shown to travel over three hundred times faster than the photon itself. c is the speed limit that Father Einstein declared to be the fastest that the photon will ever move, the photon wave, however, might not have a speed limit, which is where the scientists start to divide themselves. Some sticklers for photons being stuck at c can never imagine that the photon wave which does move faster than c will ever carry information that we humans can actually use to send messages faster than c, but what exactly is a message? Is the human imagination limited in any way at all, of course, I believe we do have the ability to understand anything. However, we do seem to be limited in our ability to explain how or why anything happens the way it does, we all drink from the same fountain of wisdom, I'm graviton ring.
Bard: Find links to or discuss discoveries related to the tau neutrino and ongoing research on neutrinos.
Sure, here are some links to discoveries related to the tau neutrino and ongoing research on neutrinos:
Discovery of the tau neutrino
The tau neutrino was first detected in 2000 by the DONUT collaboration at Fermilab. The DONUT experiment used a 735-ton liquid scintillator detector to observe the decay of tau neutrinos into tau leptons. The discovery of the tau neutrino was a major milestone in particle physics, as it completed the set of three known neutrino flavors.
Ongoing research on neutrinos
There is still much to learn about neutrinos. One of the most important questions is what is the mass of the tau neutrino? Neutrinos are thought to have mass, but their exact mass is still unknown. Scientists are working on experiments to measure the mass of the tau neutrino more precisely.
Another important question is whether neutrinos are their own antiparticles. Neutrinos are thought to be their own antiparticles, but this has not been definitively proven. Scientists are working on experiments to test whether neutrinos are their own antiparticles.
Neutrinos are also thought to play a role in dark matter. Dark matter is a mysterious substance that makes up about 85% of the matter in the universe. Neutrinos are thought to be one of the possible candidates for dark matter. Scientists are working on experiments to test whether neutrinos are dark matter.
The research on neutrinos is ongoing, and there are many exciting discoveries still to be made.
The standard model of particle physics is our fundamental description of the stuff in the universe. It doesn’t answer why anything exists, but does describe what exists and how it behaves, and that’s what we’ll be discovering in this video. We will cover the fermions, which contain the quarks and the leptons, as well as the bosons or force carriers. As well as which of the fundamental forces each of these fundamental particles interact with, along with the Higgs field. We’ll also look at the conservation rules of particle physics, symmetries in physics and the various quantum numbers that rule which particle interactions are valid and which are not.
21:19 minutes:
'...does the universe look the same if we run time backwards compared to forwards so we take particle interaction then we flip parity and then charge and then time this combination of transformations is conserved by all particle interactions and this is known as cpt symmetry did that make sense uh maybe not it's a lot to take in but historically physicists have been more and more frustrated that they need to relax these conservation laws as it makes the overall standard model less and less elegant the main takeaway point from all of this is that we've got different conservation laws which are conserved by the different forces...'