[FRIAM] neutrons leaking to parallel mirror universe? Rich Murray 2012.06.18
neutrons leaking to parallel mirror universe? Rich Murray 2012.06.18 http://phys.org/news/2012-06-neutrons-parallel-world.html Neutrons escaping to a parallel world? June 15, 2012 In a paper recently published in European Physical Journal C, researchers hypothesised the existence of mirror particles to explain the anomalous loss of neutrons observed experimentally. The existence of such mirror matter had been suggested in various scientific contexts some time ago, including the search for suitable dark matter candidates. Theoretical physicists Zurab Berezhiani and Fabrizio Nesti from the University of l'Aquila, Italy, reanalysed the experimental data obtained by the research group of Anatoly Serebrov at the Institut Laue-Langevin, France. It showed that the loss rate of very slow free neutrons appeared to depend on the direction and strength of the magnetic field applied. This anomaly could not be explained by known physics. Berezhiani believes it could be interpreted in the light of a hypothetical parallel world consisting of mirror particles. Each neutron would have the ability to transition into its invisible mirror twin, and back, oscillating from one world to the other. The probability of such a transition happening was predicted to be sensitive to the presence of magnetic fields, and could therefore be detected experimentally. This neutron-mirror-neutron oscillation could occur within a timescale of a few seconds, according to the paper. The possibility of such a fast disappearance of neutrons -- much faster than the ten-minute long neutron decay -- albeit surprising, could not be excluded by existing experimental and astrophysical limits. This interpretation is subject to the condition that the earth possesses a mirror magnetic field on the order of 0.1 Gauss. Such a field could be induced by mirror particles floating around in the galaxy as dark matter. Hypothetically, the earth could capture the mirror matter via some feeble interactions between ordinary particles and those from parallel worlds. More information: Z. Berezhiani, F. Nesti, Magnetic anomaly in UCN trapping: signal for neutron oscillations to parallel world? (2012), European Physical Journal C 72: 1974, DOI 10.1140/epjc/s10052-012-1974-5 FRIAM Applied Complexity Group listserv Meets Fridays 9a-11:30 at cafe at St. John's College lectures, archives, unsubscribe, maps at http://www.friam.org
Re: [FRIAM] neutrons leaking to parallel mirror universe? Rich Murray 2012.06.18
Unencumbered by having read any of the related literature, I would as an erstwhile particle experimentalist nevertheless point out that it's got to be extremely difficult experimentally to be sure that neutrons are actually going missing, because they're hard to detect in the first place, being electrically neutral. Bruce On Mon, Jun 18, 2012 at 11:28 AM, Rich Murray rmfor...@gmail.com wrote: neutrons leaking to parallel mirror universe? Rich Murray 2012.06.18 http://phys.org/news/2012-06-neutrons-parallel-world.html Neutrons escaping to a parallel world? June 15, 2012 In a paper recently published in European Physical Journal C, researchers hypothesised the existence of mirror particles to explain the anomalous loss of neutrons observed experimentally. The existence of such mirror matter had been suggested in various scientific contexts some time ago, including the search for suitable dark matter candidates. Theoretical physicists Zurab Berezhiani and Fabrizio Nesti from the University of l'Aquila, Italy, reanalysed the experimental data obtained by the research group of Anatoly Serebrov at the Institut Laue-Langevin, France. It showed that the loss rate of very slow free neutrons appeared to depend on the direction and strength of the magnetic field applied. This anomaly could not be explained by known physics. Berezhiani believes it could be interpreted in the light of a hypothetical parallel world consisting of mirror particles. Each neutron would have the ability to transition into its invisible mirror twin, and back, oscillating from one world to the other. The probability of such a transition happening was predicted to be sensitive to the presence of magnetic fields, and could therefore be detected experimentally. This neutron-mirror-neutron oscillation could occur within a timescale of a few seconds, according to the paper. The possibility of such a fast disappearance of neutrons -- much faster than the ten-minute long neutron decay -- albeit surprising, could not be excluded by existing experimental and astrophysical limits. This interpretation is subject to the condition that the earth possesses a mirror magnetic field on the order of 0.1 Gauss. Such a field could be induced by mirror particles floating around in the galaxy as dark matter. Hypothetically, the earth could capture the mirror matter via some feeble interactions between ordinary particles and those from parallel worlds. More information: Z. Berezhiani, F. Nesti, Magnetic anomaly in UCN trapping: signal for neutron oscillations to parallel world? (2012), European Physical Journal C 72: 1974, DOI 10.1140/epjc/s10052-012-1974-5 FRIAM Applied Complexity Group listserv Meets Fridays 9a-11:30 at cafe at St. John's College lectures, archives, unsubscribe, maps at http://www.friam.org FRIAM Applied Complexity Group listserv Meets Fridays 9a-11:30 at cafe at St. John's College lectures, archives, unsubscribe, maps at http://www.friam.org
Re: [FRIAM] neutrons leaking to parallel mirror universe? Rich Murray2012.06.18
Sounds nearly like the story in The gods themselves from Isaac Asimov, I have read it last week in the holidays. Time to setup a Neutrino pump ? :-) http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Gods_Themselves -J. - Original Message - From: Rich Murray rmfor...@gmail.com To: vorte...@eskimo.com; Rich Murray rmfor...@gmail.com Sent: Monday, June 18, 2012 7:28 PM Subject: [FRIAM] neutrons leaking to parallel mirror universe? Rich Murray2012.06.18 neutrons leaking to parallel mirror universe? Rich Murray 2012.06.18 http://phys.org/news/2012-06-neutrons-parallel-world.html Neutrons escaping to a parallel world? June 15, 2012 In a paper recently published in European Physical Journal C, researchers hypothesised the existence of mirror particles to explain the anomalous loss of neutrons observed experimentally. The existence of such mirror matter had been suggested in various scientific contexts some time ago, including the search for suitable dark matter candidates. Theoretical physicists Zurab Berezhiani and Fabrizio Nesti from the University of l'Aquila, Italy, reanalysed the experimental data obtained by the research group of Anatoly Serebrov at the Institut Laue-Langevin, France. It showed that the loss rate of very slow free neutrons appeared to depend on the direction and strength of the magnetic field applied. This anomaly could not be explained by known physics. Berezhiani believes it could be interpreted in the light of a hypothetical parallel world consisting of mirror particles. Each neutron would have the ability to transition into its invisible mirror twin, and back, oscillating from one world to the other. The probability of such a transition happening was predicted to be sensitive to the presence of magnetic fields, and could therefore be detected experimentally. This neutron-mirror-neutron oscillation could occur within a timescale of a few seconds, according to the paper. The possibility of such a fast disappearance of neutrons -- much faster than the ten-minute long neutron decay -- albeit surprising, could not be excluded by existing experimental and astrophysical limits. This interpretation is subject to the condition that the earth possesses a mirror magnetic field on the order of 0.1 Gauss. Such a field could be induced by mirror particles floating around in the galaxy as dark matter. Hypothetically, the earth could capture the mirror matter via some feeble interactions between ordinary particles and those from parallel worlds. More information: Z. Berezhiani, F. Nesti, Magnetic anomaly in UCN trapping: signal for neutron oscillations to parallel world? (2012), European Physical Journal C 72: 1974, DOI 10.1140/epjc/s10052-012-1974-5 FRIAM Applied Complexity Group listserv Meets Fridays 9a-11:30 at cafe at St. John's College lectures, archives, unsubscribe, maps at http://www.friam.org FRIAM Applied Complexity Group listserv Meets Fridays 9a-11:30 at cafe at St. John's College lectures, archives, unsubscribe, maps at http://www.friam.org
Re: [FRIAM] [WedTech] Robots Go To War
Interesting, but I'm surprised that the article didn't mention the signature drone strikes that are so popular with the Obama administration, whereby you only need to do something that looks vaguely terrorist-y (attend one of their funerals, live near them, go to the same market) to become a legitimate target. (Here'shttp://www.theatlantic.com/international/archive/2012/04/expanding-cia-drone-strikes-will-likely-mean-more-dead-innocents/256106/a piece from The Atlantic about it.) - R On Mon, Jun 18, 2012 at 12:27 PM, Kim Sorvig sor...@santafe-newmexico.comwrote: snip FRIAM Applied Complexity Group listserv Meets Fridays 9a-11:30 at cafe at St. John's College lectures, archives, unsubscribe, maps at http://www.friam.org
Re: [FRIAM] neutrons leaking to parallel mirror universe? Rich Murray2012.06.18
Doesn't such a Neutrino Pump require a Maxwell's Daemon at it's core? I hear (this) universe is short of them... perhaps the parallel ones where our neutrons are going missing has some to spare? Sounds nearly like the story in The gods themselves from Isaac Asimov, I have read it last week in the holidays. Time to setup a Neutrino pump ? :-) http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Gods_Themselves -J. - Original Message - From: Rich Murray rmfor...@gmail.com To: vorte...@eskimo.com; Rich Murray rmfor...@gmail.com Sent: Monday, June 18, 2012 7:28 PM Subject: [FRIAM] neutrons leaking to parallel mirror universe? Rich Murray2012.06.18 neutrons leaking to parallel mirror universe? Rich Murray 2012.06.18 http://phys.org/news/2012-06-neutrons-parallel-world.html Neutrons escaping to a parallel world? June 15, 2012 In a paper recently published in European Physical Journal C, researchers hypothesised the existence of mirror particles to explain the anomalous loss of neutrons observed experimentally. The existence of such mirror matter had been suggested in various scientific contexts some time ago, including the search for suitable dark matter candidates. Theoretical physicists Zurab Berezhiani and Fabrizio Nesti from the University of l'Aquila, Italy, reanalysed the experimental data obtained by the research group of Anatoly Serebrov at the Institut Laue-Langevin, France. It showed that the loss rate of very slow free neutrons appeared to depend on the direction and strength of the magnetic field applied. This anomaly could not be explained by known physics. Berezhiani believes it could be interpreted in the light of a hypothetical parallel world consisting of mirror particles. Each neutron would have the ability to transition into its invisible mirror twin, and back, oscillating from one world to the other. The probability of such a transition happening was predicted to be sensitive to the presence of magnetic fields, and could therefore be detected experimentally. This neutron-mirror-neutron oscillation could occur within a timescale of a few seconds, according to the paper. The possibility of such a fast disappearance of neutrons -- much faster than the ten-minute long neutron decay -- albeit surprising, could not be excluded by existing experimental and astrophysical limits. This interpretation is subject to the condition that the earth possesses a mirror magnetic field on the order of 0.1 Gauss. Such a field could be induced by mirror particles floating around in the galaxy as dark matter. Hypothetically, the earth could capture the mirror matter via some feeble interactions between ordinary particles and those from parallel worlds. More information: Z. Berezhiani, F. Nesti, Magnetic anomaly in UCN trapping: signal for neutron oscillations to parallel world? (2012), European Physical Journal C 72: 1974, DOI 10.1140/epjc/s10052-012-1974-5 FRIAM Applied Complexity Group listserv Meets Fridays 9a-11:30 at cafe at St. John's College lectures, archives, unsubscribe, maps at http://www.friam.org FRIAM Applied Complexity Group listserv Meets Fridays 9a-11:30 at cafe at St. John's College lectures, archives, unsubscribe, maps at http://www.friam.org FRIAM Applied Complexity Group listserv Meets Fridays 9a-11:30 at cafe at St. John's College lectures, archives, unsubscribe, maps at http://www.friam.org
Re: [FRIAM] neutrons leaking to parallel mirror universe? Rich Murray2012.06.18
What intrigues me is that very cold neutrons switching spontaneously out of our realm in seconds via low intensity mirror realm magnetic fields is a scheme that sounds similar to the Widom-Larson conjecture in recent years: strong electric currents creating momentary neutral associations between protons and electrons, on the surfaces of solids, with zero overall charge and very low speed, on surfaces where the proton-electron association can act like a neutron, moving so close to the atomic nucleus as to enable the strong force to grab the proton, which emits a positron that combines with the electron, making an escaping gamma and releasing nuclear energy -- leaving the nucleus with an added unit of mass, enough in many nuclei like Cu to produce short-lived radioactives that give off gammas and electrons one by one via known decay chains, resulting in a stable element with higher proton numbers... search Google for Widom-Larson weak interaction transmutation decay chains... eternal exponential expansion of science is an empirical law that, given the actual single, fully and intimately unified, creative, fey fractal hyperinfinity beyond-within all subjective and objective realms, will forever display unpredictable phenomena on all scales -- just as observed since 1660... heh, heh... Murray's Law... FRIAM Applied Complexity Group listserv Meets Fridays 9a-11:30 at cafe at St. John's College lectures, archives, unsubscribe, maps at http://www.friam.org
[FRIAM] The transcension hypothesis: Sufficiently advanced civilizations invariably leave our universe, John M. Smart: Rich Murray 2012.06.18
uh, see A Course in Miracles (Jesus), Time, Space and Knowledge (Tarthang Tulku, Rinpoche), The Nature of Personal Reality: A Seth Book (Jane Roberts)... http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0094576511003304 Acta Astronautica Volume 78, September -- October 2012, Pages 55-68 Searching for Life Signatures The transcension hypothesis: Sufficiently advanced civilizations invariably leave our universe, and implications for METI and SETI * ** John M. Smart a, b, c, d, , , a Acceleration Studies Foundation, 216 Mountain View Ave, Mountain View, CA 94041, USA b Evo Devo Universe Research Community, USA c Emerging Technologies, University of Advancing Technology, Tempe, AZ, USA d ECCO (Evol, Complexity Cognition) Group, Center Leo Apostel, Free U. of Brussels, Belgium Received 12 March 2011. Revised 2 November 2011. Accepted 4 November 2011. Available online 16 December 2011. http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.actaastro.2011.11.006, How to Cite or Link Using DOI Permissions Reprints View full text Purchase $31.50 Abstract The emerging science of evolutionary developmental (“evo devo”) biology can aid us in thinking about our universe as both an evolutionary system, where most processes are unpredictable and creative, and a developmental system, where a special few processes are predictable and constrained to produce far-future-specific emergent order, just as we see in the common developmental processes in two stars of an identical population type, or in two genetically identical twins in biology. The transcension hypothesis proposes that a universal process of evolutionary development guides all sufficiently advanced civilizations into what may be called inner space, a computationally optimal domain of increasingly dense, productive, miniaturized, and efficient scales of space, time, energy, and matter, and eventually, to a black-hole-like destination. Transcension as a developmental destiny might also contribute to the solution to the Fermi paradox, the question of why we have not seen evidence of or received beacons from intelligent civilizations. A few potential evolutionary, developmental, and information theoretic reasons, mechanisms, and models for constrained transcension of advanced intelligence are briefly considered. In particular, we introduce arguments that black holes may be a developmental destiny and standard attractor for all higher intelligence, as they appear to some to be ideal computing, learning, forward time travel, energy harvesting, civilization merger, natural selection, and universe replication devices. In the transcension hypothesis, simpler civilizations that succeed in resisting transcension by staying in outer (normal) space would be developmental failures, which are statistically very rare late in the life cycle of any biological developing system. If transcension is a developmental process, we may expect brief broadcasts or subtle forms of galactic engineering to occur in small portions of a few galaxies, the handiwork of young and immature civilizations, but constrained transcension should be by far the norm for all mature civilizations. The transcension hypothesis has significant and testable implications for our current and future METI and SETI agendas. If all universal intelligence eventually transcends to black-hole-like environments, after which some form of merger and selection occurs, and if two-way messaging (a send–receive cycle) is severely limited by the great distances between neighboring and rapidly transcending civilizations, then sending one-way METI or probes prior to transcension becomes the only real communication option. But one-way messaging or probes may provably reduce the evolutionary diversity in all civilizations receiving the message, as they would then arrive at their local transcensions in a much more homogenous fashion. If true, an ethical injunction against one-way messaging or probes might emerge in the morality and sustainability systems of all sufficiently advanced civilizations, an argument known as the Zoo hypothesis in Fermi paradox literature, if all higher intelligences are subject to an evolutionary attractor to maximize their local diversity, and a developmental attractor to merge and advance universal intelligence. In any such environment, the evolutionary value of sending any interstellar message or probe may simply not be worth the cost, if transcension is an inevitable, accelerative, and testable developmental process, one that eventually will be discovered and quantitatively described by future physics. Fortunately, transcension processes may be measurable today even without good physical theory, and radio and optical SETI may each provide empirical tests. If transcension is a universal developmental constraint, then without exception all early and low-power electromagnetic leakage signals (radar, radio, television), and later, optical evidence of the exoplanets and their atmospheres should reliably cease as
