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- From: sichase@csa2.lbl.gov (SCOTT I CHASE)
- Newsgroups: sci.physics
- Subject: Re: Structure of Time (SUMMARY)
- Followup-To: sci.physics
- Date: 23 Jul 92 19:14:05 GMT
- Organization: Lawrence Berkeley Laboratory - Berkeley, CA, USA
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- References: <1992Jul20.225813.1@tnclus.tele.nokia.fi> <499@alden.UUCP>
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- In article <499@alden.UUCP>, sgr@ae-sun05 (Stan Ryckman) writes...
- >
- >If _anything_ has a color, it does one or more of:
- > a) emit optical photons;
- > b) reflect optical photons;
- > c) absorb optical photons; or
- > d) refract optical photons.
- >
- >No neutrino ever has been hypothesized by any physicist to interact
- >with photons in any such way. If so, they'd be easy to detect.
-
- Whoa! Neutrinos most definitely can interact with photons of any
- wavelength. After all, neutrinos have a magnetic moment (very small,
- not yet measured, upper limits only known so far) in the Standard
- Model. Think of it this way - every neutrino spends part of its life
- looking alot like a W-lepton pair.
-
- And photons get involved in weak interactions through trilinear and
- quadrilinear boson verticies, so even in first order some unfamiliar
- processes can lead to neutrino-photon interactions. For example,
- neutrino + photon -> lepton + W* + photon -> lepton + W.
-
- The problem with detecting this process and many more is an experimental
- one, not a problem in principle due to absence of the interaction.
-
- -Scott
- --------------------
- Scott I. Chase "The question seems to be of such a character
- SICHASE@CSA2.LBL.GOV that if I should come to life after my death
- and some mathematician were to tell me that it
- had been definitely settled, I think I would
- immediately drop dead again." - Vandiver
-