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- From: dexter@news.mr.med.ge.com.UUCP (Donald Dexter 4-6489)
- Subject: Re: Structure of Time (SUMMARY)
- Message-ID: <1992Jul24.171101.25117@mr.med.ge.com>
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- Date: Fri, 24 Jul 92 17:11:01 GMT
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- From article <24824@dog.ee.lbl.gov>, by sichase@csa2.lbl.gov (SCOTT I CHASE):
- > 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.
- >
- yea, but are they green? :-)
-
- -don. (neutrinos are the little green things)
-