Mark--Good find--
I just finished the items you noted. The presentation by Fischbach is
compelling IME that the Sun produces something that travels with at least the
speed of light that significantly changes the decay rates of beta emitters at
least. His suggested explanation of spin coupling energy transfer from the
spin of neutrinos via a spin orbit type field (phase space)with a 1 au range
may be the answer. In the various related papers it seems it is also call the
5th force.
Again the spin interactions seem to be important and allow for energy transfer
among particles.
One interesting observation is that the Sun's neutrino source seems to be only
1/9 of the total neutrino flux that could be influencing the decay rates. The
obvious other source is the Earth itself. This may give basis for the theory
that nuclear reactions and their production of neutrinos are providing the
internal heat that the Earth emits. I doubt that the sum total of all the
surface reactors would add up to the neutrino flux being suggested as the
ambient condition on the surface, although it may. The local flux around a
reactor could explain the variation in decay rates reported by various
researchers for any given isotope. Fischbach did not go this far in his talk.
The average neutrino flux from the known reactors could be calculated. It
would be interesting to see how this compares to the total in the vicinity of
the Earth. This would provide the ratio of the man made sources and the
natural sources of neutrino for Earth.
Radioactive decay rate experiments on the Moon would be instructive in further
understanding the issue of the influence of neutrinos.
The other question that comes up is how has the neutrino flux on Earth changed
over the years, if its primary source is internal. It would mean that the
radio isotope decay rates used for geologic dating techniques today would need
to be corrected for such flux changes. This would seem to be necessary at
least for beta decay isotopes being used for dating.
Maybe with spin coupling there is another mechanism for energy transport
through solids--for example the Sun from the center to the surface--that
involves neutrino interactions via spin with the other hadrons in the Sun.
This would add to radiant heat transfer, conduction and convection already
known. It may be important in understanding the fusion rates at the center of
the Sun and predicted lifetimes. Fewer fusions may be happening than
previously thought given the improved heat transfer and lower temperatures.
Other conjectures with pop up in this forum I believe.
Bob Cook
- Original Message -
From: Mark Jurich
To: vortex-l@eskimo.com
Sent: Sunday, April 20, 2014 10:48 PM
Subject: [Vo]:Re: LENR on the sun
Bob Cook wrote:
| The bigger question is how would neutrinos change the half life of a
nucleus in any case?
| The reaction cross section must be very small.
| Has Frishbach suggested any mechanism for the change in decay rate?
...At approximately the 29 minute mark of the previously posted video, he
makes a rather provocative suggestion: Spin-dependent long range force coupling
to neutrinos (and the last question asked after the talk is relevant to that
suggestion):
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DzOOkR3a4vM
... Many of the slides for the presentation can be found here:
http://moriond.in2p3.fr/J11/transparents/fischbach.pdf
This is rather old stuff, actually. If you head to arXiv and fish out the
latest papers authored by Fischbach, you can catch up on latest in the nuclear
decay rate situation. I’m not aware of any further suggestions made by this
collaboration of researchers. Some further info on possible refutations are
touched upon, here:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N76lx-4fN-g
Since this effect has apparently also been seen with Alpha Decay, it has
raised more questions concerning suggestions such as Fischbach, et al.’s,
above...
... The suggestion of a direct or catalytic effect had been made by
Falkenberg back in 2001 (don’t think he’s the first to suggest this):
http://redshift.vif.com/JournalFiles/V08NO2PDF/V08N2FAL.pdf
The aphelion/perihelion solar neutrino flux variation is about +/- 3.2 or
3.3% and the effect he saw with tritium was +/- 0.37% or about 1/9th the
variation. That data was taken in the 1981 timeframe.
- Mark Jurich
