Also a simple google search would reveal that the mixing of flavors of neutrinos is not a problem for energy conservation:
http://physics.stackexchange.com/questions/2949/how-can-neutrinos-oscillate-though-the-lepton-flavors-have-differing-masses Giovanni On Thu, Jul 18, 2013 at 10:41 AM, Jones Beene <[email protected]> wrote: > There are half a dozen new papers out this summer on various physical > aspects of the neutrino - the elusive "ghost particle" of physics which was > once an abstraction (lest we forget). The neutrino was invented with no > evidence in order to "balance the books" of energetic stellar reactions. > Nowadays, almost everyone (except Don Hotson) agrees that the neutrino has > mass detectable on earth (formerly it was thought to be massless). More on > integrating Hotson's view (and the zero point field) with neutrinos - > later. > > This effective level of neutrino mass has strong implications for dark > matter, due to the incredible neutrino flux... as well as implications for > anomalous earthly energy. BTW the solar neutrino flux is estimated at a > minimum of ~ 3.5 billion/cm^2/sec up to 200 billion/cm^2/sec. Even the low > estimate is mind boggling in terms of how much energy is available on the > capture and conversion of a tiny percentage, and we do know that some > elements capture a few (very few). > > Best I can tell, the consensus for neutrino mass in 2013 is about half the > value which was being floated around in 2010, which was an upper limit or > .28 eV/c^2. This is complicated by the fact that various neutrinos have > differing masses but can "flip" - which itself seems to violate CoE. > > Anyway, the most interesting factoid about the value of neutrino mass for > LENR, and especially in the context of the Rossi HotCat are the > "coincidences". The HotCat is the first devices which seems to work in a > very robust manner at a peak photon resonance in the infrared range ... and > around a wavelength of slightly over 10 microns. This wavelength just so > happens ... drum roll ... ta da... > > ... to "coincidentally" be in a range where plasmon/polaritons are known to > form, which happens "coincidentally" to be the value of the blackbody > emission spectrum of planet earth, which happens "coincidentally" to be a > range of mass-energy corresponding to ... you guessed it ... the solar > neutrino. All of these details are connected at ~10 microns wavelength, > hot-but-not-too-hot. > > Maybe it is too soon to connect the dots? (quantum dots indeed) > > It is worth mentioning the implications of one possibility - that the > plasmon/polariton operates as an effective "antenna" for capturing a small > fraction of the massive solar neutrino flux- since this would help to > answer > the major question of how Rossi can achieve so much thermal gain with zero > gamma radiation. Even if true, this antenna-like function is not enough, > since any IR emitter should show gain at 10 microns, and we know that is > not > the case. > > So if it is not thermal gain which is captured by plasmons/polaritons, then > what is it? > > More on that later, but if you guessed that polaritons interact with > neutrinos in something akin to [mass <-> charge] interaction, then go to > the > head of the class. That would be where the polariton gets it huge electric > field. > > Jones >
