Very cool, but I suspect that as I age my braincells are slowly leaking to a parallel universe. Paul
-----Original Message----- From: Steve Smith <[email protected]> To: The Friday Morning Applied Complexity Coffee Group <[email protected]> Sent: Mon, Jun 18, 2012 6:46 pm Subject: 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" <[email protected]> > To: <[email protected]>; "Rich Murray" <[email protected]> > 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
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