ABSTRACT
The negative mass squared problem of the recent neutrino experiments from the five major institutions prompts us to speculate that, after all, neutrinos may be tachyons. There are number of reasons to believe that this could be the case. Stationary neutrinos have not been detected. There is no evidence of right handed neutrinos which are most likely to be observed if neutrinos can be stationary. They have the unusual property of the mass oscillation between flavors which has not been observed in the electron families. While Standard Model predicts the mass of neutrinos to be zero, the observed spectrum of Tritium decay experiments hasn't conclusively proved that the mass of neutrino is exactly zero. Based upon these observations and other related phenomena, we wish to argue that there are too many inconsistencies to fit neutrinos into the category of ordinary inside light cone particles and that the simplest possible way to resolve the mystery of the neutrino is to change our point of view and determine that neutrinos are actually tachyons.
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From: nick herbert <
Subject: Re: Tachyons... supernovae
Date: October 7, 2011 8:55:10 PM EDT
To: JACK SARFATTI <
neutrinos 3 hours before light.
consistent with the initial relative delay
between neutrinos and photons getting out of star's core.
Both travel at light speed after emergence.
Neutrinos would have arrived 13 years before photons
if they were as fast as CERN measured.
On Oct 7, 2011, at 5:33 PM, JACK SARFATTI wrote:
hey Nick this guy says neutrinos arrived before photons in a supernova event?
Therefore, usual large energy (> MeV ) electron neutrinos are expected to have
the velocity slightly larger than the speed of light which may also explain the
earlier detection of neutrinos from the supernova prior to its visual confirmation,
within the reasonable assumption that both the weak and the electromagnetic
interactions occurred almost simultaneously at the time of the explosion.
On Oct 7, 2011, at 8:51 PM, Saul-Paul Sirag wrote:
Jack,
The neutrinos' arrival before the photons from Supernova 1987A is well understood.
See the Wikipedia article on Supernova 1987A, where one finds this statement:
Approximately three hours before the visible light from SN 1987A reached the Earth, a burst of neutrinos was observed at three separate neutrino observatories. This is likely due to neutrino emission (which occurs simultaneously with core collapse) preceding the emission of visible light (which occurs only after the shock wave reaches the stellar surface). [9]
Saul-Paull
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