It has been evident for years that Rossi has been spending time boning
up on atomic physics.
What he writes here makes sense to me, but perhaps others here, more
expert than me, will comment.
1.
Andrea Rossi
March 31, 2017 at 12:55 PM
<http://www.journal-of-nuclear-physics.com/?p=892&cpage=223#comment-1273347>
Eugene Atthove:
As a matter of fact, neutrinos and antineutrinos in the nuclear
physics equations are “tricks”, assumed to be real to obtain the
respect of the leptons conservation law.
For example: the neutron decay, of which we talked yesterday, gives
one proton, one electron and one antineutrino: why? Because at the
left of the neutron decay equation you do not have leptons, at the
right you have one lepton and this would be against the leptons
number conservation law: therefore you have to assume the emission
of an antineutrino, so you have one plus lepton ( the electron ),
one minus lepton ( the antineutrino ) = zero leptons also at the
right of the equation, so that the law is respected. You could say
that this sounds a little bit tricky, like an artifact, but…it is,
albeit without this trick the Standard Model would brutally crack
down: realistically, between a crack and a trick is better the trick.
Warm Regards,
A.R.
