Frank E. Reed was on the CompuServe Physics Forum in the Good Old Days.
When he wasn't blasting "Cold Fusion" he was teaching good physics.
"I'm currently president of Centennia Software. I design and write software for our CENTENNIA historical atlas software. If you arrived here through some indirect route, you might want to learn a little about the Centennia Historical Atlas software. I am also head cartographer for the project --I decide what goes into the maps and did most of the drawing in the earliest versions of Centennia. But this current career is a long way from my training... By education and interest, I'm a physicist and astronomer. Too bad there's no money in that."
Some of Frank's Physics:
Neutrino Properties from a CompuServe posting by Frank Reed.
" It now seems that a neutrino has no mass and this works just fine in the accepted current mainstream theories. Some properties of neutrinos in accord with currently accepted theory(1997):
- Zero mass (like photons)
- Spin 1/2 like electrons.
- Can't have two of them in the same state ("same place") at the same time. (like electrons, and very much Unlike photons)
- Does not interact electromagnetically so passes right through large quantities of matter as if it weren't there. (unlike electrons and photons, too)
- Has lepton number (Like electrons)
In order to be consistent with Hofstadter's shell construct for mass, a neutrino must be some form of photon. It might be that a spin polarized photon could satisfy theoretical need to conserve energy and angular momentum in accord with the laws of nature. "
But, do photons (infrared to x-rays-gammas) interact in matter?
Fred
