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Title: Solar Neutrinos
Post by: bowler on August 04, 2008, 06:43:02 AM
Just wondering how the FE theory explained low energy solar neutrinos. Some background, the neutrino is a light weakly interacting ( < 1eV) particle. On weakly interacting means that it very rarely interacts means that it can pass through very large amounts of material, a planet for example. In 1949 it was suggested that if Hans Bethe was right about the sun being powered by nuclear fusion then we could detect these solar neutrinos.

Over the past 40 years detectors have been searching for these neutrinos. The current generation SNO and Superkamiokande are capable of determining the direction from which the neutrinos are appearing. We find that during the day solar neutrinos come from above, and during the night they are travelling through the Earth. I guess this doesnt necessarily prove the Earth is flat but it does demonstrate that the sun 'goes round the back' . Given that its always day somewhere and night somewhere else a sphere becomes a likely geometry for the surface of the Earth.

Not just solar neutrinos, we can also see cosmic neutrinos passing through the Earth so whatever the topolgy of the Earth there is a cosmos capable of producing the same spectrum of neutrinos on the other side.

Finally long baseline neutrino experiments are a new generation that use a particle accelerator to generate a beam of neutrinos. These are then allowed to propagate some distance before being detected. Examples of such experiments are K2K (Japan) with a baseline of roughly 300km, MINOS (US) with a baseline of almost 800km. When the source of your particles is so far from the detector these experiments actually fire their beams into the ground (typically a few degrees from the plane of the surface). This beam then re-emerges a few hundred km away, obviously this would not happen if the world was flat. These experiments would fail if the Earth surface was not curved. Larger baseline experiments are currently under design with huge baselines (7000km) with beams passing well into the centre of the Earth. If i were to stick a rod into the Earth at some angle and see it reappear some distance away I would argue I have a curved surface, not a flat one.

While im at it, if Earths surface was a plane im having problems picturing how the Earths magnetic field could be created so as to create the 'northern' and 'southern' lights where they are currently seen. Ill have to look at the geometry but it also seems that a return trip from Sydney to Patagonia might be quicker if done via the North Pole, which as far as im aware is not how its currently done. Im sure i can think of further questions.

edit: poor grammar and spelling
Title: Re: Solar Neutrinos
Post by: Dr Matrix on August 04, 2008, 07:10:53 AM
I have to say this is one of the best physical arguments I have read on here - you have to dig through a lot of "OMGWTF" before you get to someone who can provide a comment like this...  I look forward to hearing the Flat-Earth counter-argument (and I really hope it's not that the researchers are conspirators - I know some of them quite well!!).

Just out of curiosity, is the generally accepted Flat Earth view that all other celestial bodies are discs, or is the Earth unique in the Universe (at least, so far observed)? Anyone can buy a telescope and look at the other planets of the Solar System and so on, so are these other discs, or are they spheres?  Is anything in the Universe beyond the surface of the Earth preferentially spherical?
Title: Re: Solar Neutrinos
Post by: Bushido on August 04, 2008, 07:12:32 AM
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Solar_neutrino_problem (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Solar_neutrino_problem)
Title: Re: Solar Neutrinos
Post by: bowler on August 04, 2008, 07:27:15 AM
Ah I was hoping someone would mention the solar neutrino problem. I was going to talk about it in my original post but I didn't because its not actually related to their source, the issue here. Rut the number of them we se;, although it is a very interesting account of how theory and experiment can come together in reality.

The first attempt to calculate how many solar neutrinos we should see was done by John Bacall in the early 60s (cant remember the paper, there the name) at the birth of the SSM (Standard Solar Model). The first experiment was very crude but for the technology available very elegant, this was carried out by Ray Davis in 1968 and he found that there were only about 1/3 as many seen in practice as there were in theory. Despite more elegant experiments this discrepancy remained until very recently.

The solution it turns out is something called neutrino oscillations where quantum mechanical effects mean that a particle can turn from one type into another. For those mathematically minded this is caused by a rotation between mass and flavour states. This had already been seen with quarks (the constituents of protons and neutrons). It was suspected that a similar mechanism could caused neutrinos from the sun to oscillate into flavours we cant detect. The SNO experiment was capable of detecting all flavours by one method and the type the sun should generate through another method. In 2002 it confirmed that theory had been correct and that the fact neutrinos do not interact allowed them to oscillate into other types. The agreement between theory and experiment is now very good.

The theory for this had been around since before John Bacall's theory, it was first suggested by Bruno Pontecorvo, way back when (1935ish) but only in 2002 was an experiment able to show it.
Title: Re: Solar Neutrinos
Post by: Ski on August 04, 2008, 07:33:42 AM
Just out of curiosity, is the generally accepted Flat Earth view that all other celestial bodies are discs, or is the Earth unique in the Universe (at least, so far observed)? Anyone can buy a telescope and look at the other planets of the Solar System and so on, so are these other discs, or are they spheres?  Is anything in the Universe beyond the surface of the Earth preferentially spherical?

I won't pretend to know enough about neutrinos (other than a smattering I've picked up watching science shows and brief articles, no papers) to address the OP, other than to say neutrinos as currently understood by RE models would indeed be capable of passing through the underside of the disc to reach the surface. Interestingly enough, an anti-sun and anti-moon have been proposed in FE for completely separate reasons and may account for this phenomena. I'm not sure the problem has ever been approached from a flat earth perspective.


As to your question, most heavenly bodies appear to be globes, but discs are relatively common in the heavens as well. Most galaxies, for example are discs.
Title: Re: Solar Neutrinos
Post by: Bushido on August 04, 2008, 07:41:05 AM
bowler,

You say that neutrinos interact very weakly with matter, allowing them to pass through whole planets, and the interior of the Sun.

I probably missed the detail, but I am very interested to know how the neutrino observatories determine the direction from which the neutrions come from.
Title: Re: Solar Neutrinos
Post by: Dr Matrix on August 04, 2008, 07:51:00 AM
Thanks Ski - I'll have to think about the implications of an anti-Sun/Moon since these are not concepts I have dealt with very much in the past, although I would have thought that having two sources of neutrinos would result in two spikes in detectors rather than one, unless either the 'underground' topology and consistency of the FE was extremely peculiar or the sources switched on and off in synchrony.

As to your question, most heavenly bodies appear to be globes, but discs are relatively common in the heavens as well. Most galaxies, for example are discs.
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As to this point, while the distribution of 'bright' matter (stars) can form into discs such as the Milky Way and others, the overall distribution of matter such as hydrogen gas (observed by radio telescope) tends to be far more ellipsoid than disc-like, which is what one expects for a spinning mass distribution due to the conservation of angular momentum.  The 'round Earth' bulges in this way, as does the Sun, the Moon, the other planets (particularly visible in the gas giants).  Is there a logical reason for the Earth to be a disc as opposed to a sphere(ish), in the same vein as the reasoning for a galaxy or black hole accretion disc?
Title: Re: Solar Neutrinos
Post by: bowler on August 04, 2008, 07:53:21 AM
I appreciate that not everyone is a physicist (that much is pretty evident). An anti-sun would not explain it, because we would then see two suns one on one side of the Earth and one at the other. There are differences in the physics but I cant work it out quickly enough to say how pronounced the difference would be. More obviosuly SNO is in Canada and Super-kamiokande is in Japan, the night time data at one is day time at the other. Actually introducing an anti-sun so close to our Earth makes and anti-solar wind that will be eating away at the underside of our disc.

From through going cosmic neutrinos we know that there must be an atmosphere on the otherside of the 'disc' to convert cosmic rays to cosmic muons.

Also while do like my arguments i thought the firing a beam into the Earth and having it re-emerge a few hundred km later was the stronger argument mostly because its simple and elegant. It has nothing to do with quantum mechanics or general relativity. You can get a stick and see which shapes you can stick it through 2 points on.
Title: Re: Solar Neutrinos
Post by: bowler on August 04, 2008, 07:57:00 AM
Direction is determined, in principle, by conservation of momentum. By looking at the velocities of the produced particles it is possible to tell what momentum the incoming particle had. The reality is of course more complicated and particle reconstruction is a very complex field but the pricniple is simple. These are not precision measurements we cant do degree level precision but we can do somewhat better than which side of the horizon it came form. Infact in recent years with improved statistics we can do the attenutation due to the presence of the Earth and start studying more subtle effects.
Title: Re: Solar Neutrinos
Post by: Dr Matrix on August 04, 2008, 08:05:21 AM
bowler,

You say that neutrinos interact very weakly with matter, allowing them to pass through whole planets, and the interior of the Sun.

I probably missed the detail, but I am very interested to know how the neutrino observatories determine the direction from which the neutrions come from.

It is true that neutrinos interact very weakly (since their only interaction method is through the weak nuclear force, as opposed to the electromagnetic force for photons, for example) but they do sometimes still interact.  The particle interaction  mechanism is explained well by the SNO detector website:

http://www.sno.phy.queensu.ca/sno/sno2.html (http://www.sno.phy.queensu.ca/sno/sno2.html)

The basic idea is that a neutrino hits a heavy water molecule and causes the emission of an electron - the trick is that the electron picks up so much energy that it travels faster than the speed of light in the water (but not faster than the speed of light in a vacuum, which is forbidden by relativity) and emits the equivalent of a 'sonic boom' for light.  This is called Cerenkov radiation and is what causes the blue glow in nuclear reactor/waste cooling water. The Cerenkov light is picked up by very sensitive photodetectors, and the distribution of light over the detectors (which surround the spherical water tank and so cover all observable directions) tells you which direction the electron (and hence, the neutrino) was travelling in.  This has been correlated very precisely with the location of the Sun in the sky and so we can be sure we are looking at solar neutrinos and not cosmic ones (the control measures are very extensive and are also described on the previously linked site).

Any SNO/nuclear physics guys reading this please feel free to correct me! I'm only a lowly atomic physicist :)
Title: Re: Solar Neutrinos
Post by: bowler on August 04, 2008, 08:09:34 AM
Yeah that a reasonable synopsis. I've never worked on SNO but im from the particle physics side of life.
Title: Re: Solar Neutrinos
Post by: bowler on August 04, 2008, 11:55:39 AM
Ive had a think and so far I can't think of a way to fire a beam into the Earth and the have it re-emerge hundreds of km away on a flat surface.
Title: Re: Solar Neutrinos
Post by: Ski on August 04, 2008, 01:39:47 PM
who is firing these beams into the earth?
Title: Re: Solar Neutrinos
Post by: bowler on August 04, 2008, 01:51:07 PM
The K2K collaboration were the first long baseline experiment and they have now completed data taking. The MINOS collaboration are currently taking data. Other experiments including T2K and Nova are currently under construction and will be taking data in the next couple of years. There are a number of other proposed experiments. The largest proposal is for the neutrino factory that will have a baseline of 7000km.
Title: Re: Solar Neutrinos
Post by: Ski on August 04, 2008, 02:03:49 PM
Have fun with them. I'd love to see the results when published.
Title: Re: Solar Neutrinos
Post by: bowler on August 04, 2008, 02:08:21 PM
Well K2K and MINOS both have. K2K was a very successful experiment being the first experiment designed with the right baseline for neutrino oscillations it saw the first experiment to actually plot the oscillation. MINOS improved on the results of K2K but didn't find anything totally new. T2K will start next year and hopefully find one of the big unknowns in neutrino physics. This is largely irrelevant for this discussion. These experiments work only because the world is spherical.
Title: Re: Solar Neutrinos
Post by: Ski on August 04, 2008, 02:33:31 PM
The stations aren't exactly on eachother's antipodes. Terrain variances between the stations may account for the "underground" beam shooting. Kamioka Cho has a much higher elevation than Tsukaba. Might they simply be passing the beam through ground between them?
Title: Re: Solar Neutrinos
Post by: bowler on August 04, 2008, 02:40:02 PM
Your referring to the K2K experiment. Taking into accout the height of the mine at Kamioka, at its deepest the K2K beam is of order 1000m under the ground. As I understand it this is 1000m below sea level not the surface of the land. This of course is the shortest baseline. The higher energy NOVA beam has a baseline of 810km on the plains of the northern US. I don't know the NOVA details so well but id guess this goes to about 3km deep.

edited: Wrote T2K not K2K
edited: and wrote MINOS not NOVA, having a moment here
Title: Re: Solar Neutrinos
Post by: markjo on August 04, 2008, 02:51:45 PM
Have fun with them. I'd love to see the results when published.

K2K site: http://neutrino.kek.jp/
MINOS: http://www-numi.fnal.gov/
Title: Re: Solar Neutrinos
Post by: trig on August 04, 2008, 02:53:08 PM
As far as the Flat Earth or Round Earth debate, bowler and Matrix are being great teachers but way too discreet. Far from explaining anything, an Anti-moon and an Anti-sun make everything a lot worse for the Flat Earth hypothesis.

The neutrinos from both suns do not average out, they do not mix to appear as a single source, they do not fool the detectors. The only way any one of the previous behaviors could happen is if the whole book on particle physics is rewritten.

In fact, the neutrino detectors would immediately show the existence of the Anti-sun.

The only way we can have somebody declaring that the Sun produces a constant flow of neutrinos and that we detect them from the place where the Sun is expected to be according to RE, is to include every particle physicist in the Conspiracy.

As a byline, Tom Bishop and others have understood that the atmosphere should have the most amazing refractive properties to make the Sun, stars, etc. appear to be in one place while they are in another. Now we have to believe that neutrinos are refracted in the same way, so they come from the place we think the Sun is. But of course, neutrinos are not refracted the same way as light, so you need the conspiracy even more.
Title: Re: Solar Neutrinos
Post by: markjo on August 04, 2008, 03:05:48 PM
Trig, I think that bowler and Matrix are handling themselves exceptionally well.  I think that they quickly figured out that you can not attack FET directly.  You must undermine FET one piece at a time with real science.  They are also doing quite nice job of keeping this thread from degenerating into a flame war.  I commend both of them and hope that they stick around for a while.
Title: Re: Solar Neutrinos
Post by: Bushido on August 04, 2008, 05:05:50 PM
Now we have to believe that neutrinos are refracted in the same way, so they come from the place we think the Sun is. But of course, neutrinos are not refracted the same way as light, so you need the conspiracy even more.

Except in gravitational fields.
Title: Re: Solar Neutrinos
Post by: bowler on August 05, 2008, 01:51:44 AM
The mass of a neutrino is not significant, we know it is massive but it is so light we have not been able to measure it directly. For the purposes of any meaningful kinematic calculation we assume it to be massless. Your correct, its path will be pertured by a gravitational field in the same way light is. Does FE predict a neutron star or a balck hole at the centre of the Earth? I guess we've already has an anti-sun.
Title: Re: Solar Neutrinos
Post by: bowler on August 05, 2008, 04:21:13 AM
I have checked with a member of MINOS their beam is 10km into the Earth at is deepest.
Title: Re: Solar Neutrinos
Post by: Dr Matrix on August 05, 2008, 05:29:35 AM
Now we have to believe that neutrinos are refracted in the same way, so they come from the place we think the Sun is. But of course, neutrinos are not refracted the same way as light, so you need the conspiracy even more.

Except in gravitational fields.

Bowler is right, and this is what I was alluding to with my comment previously about why neutrino detector results are incompatible with an anti-Sun... the only way to explain the data from the terrestrial long-baseline neutrino experiments is either some extremely potent (and localised) spacetime curvature beneath the surface of the Earth, which would be easily detectable by just drilling boreholes into the region of the neutrino beamline, or by some form of exotic matter (same test).

As for the various comments about mine and bowlers conduct, I'd like to also thank bowler for treating the FE like any other theory and joining me in not resorting to name calling and the like.  I have no problem with people coming up with any theory they like, so long as they are prepared to accept that it might be wrong and to join me in performing an unbiased assessment of observed evidence against predictions.
Title: Re: Solar Neutrinos
Post by: sokarul on August 05, 2008, 06:20:36 AM
This thread is lacking the people I thought would come post in it. 
Title: Re: Solar Neutrinos
Post by: Dr Matrix on August 05, 2008, 07:23:04 AM
This thread is lacking the people I thought would come post in it. 

If you know people who can make a decent contribution, could you invite them?
Title: Re: Solar Neutrinos
Post by: sokarul on August 05, 2008, 09:11:15 AM
This thread is lacking the people I thought would come post in it. 

If you know people who can make a decent contribution, could you invite them?
None of them are Fe'ers.
Title: Re: Solar Neutrinos
Post by: bowler on August 05, 2008, 12:36:37 PM
a pity
Title: Re: Solar Neutrinos
Post by: cbarnett97 on August 05, 2008, 01:33:57 PM
a pity
It really is, it is too bad that as soon as someone puts forth a well thought oput argument all of the FE'ers run away and hide. If they really believed they should welcome the chance to demonstrate that they are correct
Title: Re: Solar Neutrinos
Post by: Lord Wilmore on August 05, 2008, 02:02:18 PM
Trig, I think that bowler and Matrix are handling themselves exceptionally well.  I think that they quickly figured out that you can not attack FET directly.  You must undermine FET one piece at a time with real science.  They are also doing quite nice job of keeping this thread from degenerating into a flame war.  I commend both of them and hope that they stick around for a while.

I agree. A good RE'er is an ally in the search for truth.
Title: Re: Solar Neutrinos
Post by: bowler on August 05, 2008, 02:30:49 PM
It strikes me as interesting that this conspiracy has two general threads. The (pseudo-)scientific and the conspiracy, men in black suits, particularly aimed at NASA aspect. The pseudo-scientific part allows direct comparison to what we know. Things like the inability to explain how modern long baseline neutrino experiments work. How a plane can fly from Sydney to Patagonia and not find. Indeed how in all these years of global exploration no one has realized that we're going a terrible way. Particularly round the world sailors should be taking far longer than they do in the south.

More subtly the fact that with the dimensions I found the sun would not shine, or even ignite. We then have to question our understanding of quantum mechanics and atomic physics as the models that so well understood the spectral frequency of the sun.

The observed cosmos I can't see how you can replicate the observed star patterns of a sphere from a discoid. In this case the Southern hemisphere should not all see the same star pattern.

Anyway the masacre of Physics is not what bothers me, that can be argued about. The part that bothers me is the conspiracy aspect that means that this is more about subjective opinion that objective Science. I am happy that satellites are in orbit around the world, I have a couple of friends that have sat at the controls and got data, that would not be possible from inside the Earths atmosphere. But not believe the photos or that there are satellites is a choice.

In this respect im not sure I can contribute much more to this debate. Any argument I make can be countered with silence, answering a slightly different question or coming up with an alternative that can't easily be distinguished. The last is actually allowed I suppose but stratellites when you can see the ISS I think is a bit of a stretch. We all have our own way of looking for the truth, I get mocked by my religious friends because I tend to follow something resembling scientific method, which of course will always give the wrong answer should theists be correct.
Title: Re: Solar Neutrinos
Post by: Dr Matrix on August 05, 2008, 02:59:19 PM
I do have to say that I agree in some respects with bowler in that some of the arguments on these pages have ended with "Well it's all just part of the conspiracy" which is analagous to the intelligent design "God did it" retort.  It's a shame when there is an end point that falls outside of reason, and as such leaves the argument unresolvable by debate.  I hope that the points bowler and I have raised in this thread do not fall into that category and look forward to examining the logic behind this alternative model for the Earth.
Title: Re: Solar Neutrinos
Post by: bowler on January 26, 2009, 05:57:08 AM
The experiment I was talking about is due to being in a couple of months time. Firing neutrinos into the Earths crust and measuring them emerge at another point.
Title: Re: Solar Neutrinos
Post by: Johannes on January 28, 2009, 08:26:42 PM
Neutrinos supposedly can travel through light years of lead, I am being hit by neutrinos right now  ::)

More realistic explanation: neutrinos do not exist.
Title: Re: Solar Neutrinos
Post by: cbarnett97 on January 28, 2009, 08:38:22 PM
Neutrinos supposedly can travel through light years of lead, I am being hit by neutrinos right now  ::)

More realistic explanation: neutrinos do not exist.
you are not being hit by any neutrinos at all they are passing right through you
Title: Re: Solar Neutrinos
Post by: AdrianaT5363 on January 28, 2009, 08:55:28 PM
How do we detect them then?  ???
Title: Re: Solar Neutrinos
Post by: cbarnett97 on January 28, 2009, 08:58:12 PM
Here is a basic explanation

"Detecting Neutrino Mass
An international team of physicists has refuted the idea that subatomic particles called neutrinos have no mass. The experiments are taking place in a detector tank located 3,250 feet below a mountain in Japan. Here is an overview of the detection process: 1) Cosmic ray hits Earth's atmosphere, creating a spray of secondary particles, some of which decay into neutrinos. 2) Neutrinos begin to oscillate as they pass through Earth. 3) Neutrino strikes another elementary particle in detector tank. This interaction is analyzed to determine the type of neutrino and its flight path. The farther neutrinos travel, the more time they have to oscillate. By comparing neutrinos coming "up" through the Earth to those coming from overhead, physicists determined that they were different and that neutrinos from below oscillate, which they could do only if they have mass. "

Edit: here is a better article
http://www.wesleyan.edu/synthesis/GROUP4/FINALVERSIONS/neutrino.html
Title: Re: Solar Neutrinos
Post by: bowler on January 29, 2009, 01:52:34 AM
The neutrino  is a actually a good example of how science should be done, perhaps this is a pertinent place for the discussion. The particle was first hypothesized by Pauli who used the idea of a light non-interacting particle to explain beta decay, he needed the particle to conserve momentum but it couldn't interact because beta decay was well studied and nothing had been seen. After this he was very apologetic about this,

"I have done a terrible thing. I have postulated a particle that cannot be detected."  - Wolfgang Pauli
 
With the development of quantum mechanics and particle physics a reason for the ghostly nature of the particle was found. It only interacts via the weak interaction, which if nothing else is well named. Particles such as quarks and electrons which can interact weakly also interact via other interactions the neutrino only interacts weakly. This means that it rarely interacts with matter. By comparison a gamma ray will typically travel a few inches through lead whereas a neutrino can travel of order 10 light years through lead depending on its energy. However the sun was predicted to generate vast quantities in the fusion process so while the chance of an interaction low there are lots to detect so overall they shouldn't be impossible to find. The first solid evidence was found by Reines and Cowan in 1956.

Years later and detector technology has improved and detectors like superKamiokande and SNO with thousands of tonnes of water make detecting neutrinos far easier. These days we can reconstruct the direction a neutrino has come from, even the neutrinos from a single supernova have been detected. Of course you still don't get enough neutrinos for precision studies of their properties. So in recent years accelerators have been used to study their properties typically you have a near and a far detector. The near detector will get many events and can get more precise results while the far detector, located where the beam re-emerges from the Earth, studies their passage through the Earth. Two such experiments have been carried out K2K has been completed, MINOS has been running for a few years and T2K will commence this April. I would argue that these experiments directly exclude the Earth being flat.
Title: Re: Solar Neutrinos
Post by: Tom Bishop on January 29, 2009, 12:44:24 PM
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I would argue that these experiments directly exclude the Earth being flat.

How does a detector detecting a few neutrinos passing through the earth exclude the possibility of the earth being flat?
Title: Re: Solar Neutrinos
Post by: cbarnett97 on January 29, 2009, 12:47:51 PM
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I would argue that these experiments directly exclude the Earth being flat.

How does a detector detecting a few neutrinos passing through the earth exclude the possibility of the earth being flat?
Neutrinos that come through the earth from the sun unless you want to invent an anti-sun as well
Title: Re: Solar Neutrinos
Post by: C-Ray on January 29, 2009, 12:52:44 PM
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I would argue that these experiments directly exclude the Earth being flat.

How does a detector detecting a few neutrinos passing through the earth exclude the possibility of the earth being flat?
Neutrinos that come through the earth from the sun unless you want to invent an anti-sun as well

Exactly, read the thread Tom.  Lurk more.
Title: Re: Solar Neutrinos
Post by: Tom Bishop on January 29, 2009, 12:54:56 PM
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Neutrinos that come through the earth from the sun unless you want to invent an anti-sun as well

How do you know that they're coming from the sun?
Title: Re: Solar Neutrinos
Post by: cbarnett97 on January 29, 2009, 12:55:57 PM
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Neutrinos that come through the earth from the sun unless you want to invent an anti-sun as well

How do you know that they're coming from the sun?
By the Fequency and the oscillation
Title: Re: Solar Neutrinos
Post by: Tom Bishop on January 29, 2009, 01:02:17 PM
By the Fequency and the oscillation

Do you have anything to support those contentions?
Title: Re: Solar Neutrinos
Post by: cbarnett97 on January 29, 2009, 01:19:05 PM
http://www.wesleyan.edu/synthesis/GROUP4/FINALVERSIONS/neutrino.html
Title: Re: Solar Neutrinos
Post by: Tom Bishop on January 29, 2009, 01:20:36 PM
http://www.wesleyan.edu/synthesis/GROUP4/FINALVERSIONS/neutrino.html

Fourth paragraph down it says:

Title: Re: Solar Neutrinos
Post by: cbarnett97 on January 29, 2009, 01:36:51 PM
http://www.wesleyan.edu/synthesis/GROUP4/FINALVERSIONS/neutrino.html

Fourth paragraph down it says:

    "Neutrinos come from a variety of sources"
Yes but we can tell where they come from
Title: Re: Solar Neutrinos
Post by: Tom Bishop on January 29, 2009, 01:58:00 PM
Yes but we can tell where they come from

How?
Title: Re: Solar Neutrinos
Post by: cbarnett97 on January 29, 2009, 03:10:30 PM
By the Fequency and the oscillation
Title: Re: Solar Neutrinos
Post by: Tom Bishop on January 29, 2009, 04:25:56 PM
By the Fequency and the oscillation

Please explain how the frequency and oscillation of the incoming neutrinos could only be produced by the sun.
Title: Re: Solar Neutrinos
Post by: cbarnett97 on January 29, 2009, 05:44:21 PM
By the Fequency and the oscillation

Please explain how the frequency and oscillation of the incoming neutrinos could only be produced by the sun.
Study Particle Physics them I can begin to explain it to you
Title: Re: Solar Neutrinos
Post by: Tom Bishop on January 29, 2009, 06:03:00 PM
So no explanation or anything at all to support your contentions then?
Title: Re: Solar Neutrinos
Post by: cbarnett97 on January 29, 2009, 06:29:17 PM
So no explanation or anything at all to support your contentions then?
You want me to explain how to run before you even know what it is to crawl so like I said study particle physics and then I can give you a better explaination
Title: Re: Solar Neutrinos
Post by: cbarnett97 on January 29, 2009, 06:33:47 PM
I will even help you Tom, go ahead and read this:

http://pdg.lbl.gov/2006/reviews/numixrpp.pdf
Title: Re: Solar Neutrinos
Post by: Tom Bishop on January 29, 2009, 06:35:36 PM
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You want me to explain how to run before you even know what it is to crawl so like I said study particle physics and then I can give you a better explaination

Still refusing to provide an explanation or data for your contentions?
Title: Re: Solar Neutrinos
Post by: cbarnett97 on January 29, 2009, 06:36:18 PM
I will even help you Tom, go ahead and read this:

http://pdg.lbl.gov/2006/reviews/numixrpp.pdf
Title: Re: Solar Neutrinos
Post by: Tom Bishop on January 29, 2009, 06:37:53 PM
Guess you don't really have an explanation then.
Title: Re: Solar Neutrinos
Post by: cbarnett97 on January 29, 2009, 06:42:20 PM
Guess you don't really have an explanation then.
Read the article and it will explain it to you why should I type it out when someone else already has
Title: Re: Solar Neutrinos
Post by: Tom Bishop on January 29, 2009, 06:44:43 PM
That article had nothing to do with explaining why the neutrinos could only come from the sun.
Title: Re: Solar Neutrinos
Post by: cbarnett97 on January 29, 2009, 06:45:33 PM
That article had nothing to do with explaining why the neutrinos could only come from the sun.
I never claimed that they only come from the sun
Title: Re: Solar Neutrinos
Post by: Marcus Aurelius on January 29, 2009, 06:51:47 PM
I think what Tom is trying to say is, if you capture a nuetrino, how can you tell if it is from the sun, or some other far away nuclear source?
Title: Re: Solar Neutrinos
Post by: cbarnett97 on January 29, 2009, 06:55:16 PM
I think what Tom is trying to say is, if you capture a nuetrino, how can you tell if it is from the sun, or some other far away nuclear source?
That is what the paper addresses
Title: Re: Solar Neutrinos
Post by: markjo on January 29, 2009, 07:39:36 PM
I think what Tom is trying to say is, if you capture a nuetrino, how can you tell if it is from the sun, or some other far away nuclear source?
Perhaps the article is saying that different neutrino sources have different frequency and oscillation characteristics, similar to the way that different elements have different spectral patterns.  Once the sun's frequency and oscillation characteristics are figured out, then you can determine which neutrinos came from the sun and which neutrinos come from other sources.  That doesn't seem to hard to understand, but then we are talking about Tom.
Title: Re: Solar Neutrinos
Post by: Tom Bishop on January 29, 2009, 08:15:38 PM
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Perhaps the article is saying that different neutrino sources have different frequency and oscillation characteristics, similar to the way that different elements have different spectral patterns.  Once the sun's frequency and oscillation characteristics are figured out, then you can determine which neutrinos came from the sun and which neutrinos come from other sources.  That doesn't seem to hard to understand, but then we are talking about Tom.

Where does the article say anything remotely like that?
Title: Re: Solar Neutrinos
Post by: cbarnett97 on January 29, 2009, 08:24:17 PM
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Perhaps the article is saying that different neutrino sources have different frequency and oscillation characteristics, similar to the way that different elements have different spectral patterns.  Once the sun's frequency and oscillation characteristics are figured out, then you can determine which neutrinos came from the sun and which neutrinos come from other sources.  That doesn't seem to hard to understand, but then we are talking about Tom.

Where does the article say anything remotely like that?
read the Article and you will find out
Title: Re: Solar Neutrinos
Post by: Tom Bishop on January 29, 2009, 10:27:54 PM
read the Article and you will find out

The article doesn't say anything about it.
Title: Re: Solar Neutrinos
Post by: cbarnett97 on January 29, 2009, 10:37:57 PM
Well the is the first way to determine where the Neutrino comes from based on it oscillation is on page 2 so maybe you should actually read the article and get back to us

Title: Re: Solar Neutrinos
Post by: bowler on January 30, 2009, 12:25:26 AM
Sorry I was sleeping. Ok, how do we know where the neutrinos come from. Firstly these particles are very weakly interacting so when we detect them in any quantity we are looking for a source very close or a source very, very, very intense. As I suggested previously a far away source such as a supernova can cause this. However the only particularly strong nuclear source close to us is the sun. After the realization (think my browser may be using the American dictionary) that the sun could not be a chemical source the theory of nuclear fusion and spectroscopic studies of the light from the sun quickly showed not only that the sun was powered by nuclear fusion but also gave us a good handle on its power output. John Bachall, who sadly died recently, has over the years developed very accurate solar models predicting the solar neutrino flux. Very early neutrino experiments found only 1/3 the expected flux of neutrinos, these experiments had no tracking but the assumption was most neutrinos would come from the sun as any other source was far away by comparison.

Some physics is necessary at this point, there are three types of neutrino to partner the three leptons (electron, muon, tau). As only the electron neutrino is created in nuclear fusion the assumption was that you only needed an experiment sensitive to electron neutrinos. However by the 1990's it was realised that the weakly interacting neutrino with its low mass could oscillate from one species to another. I cant really explain this in much detail in words, there is a wiki page with some qualitative detail. For anyone versed in quantum mechanics stems from a neutrino having a rotation between its mass eigenstate and its flavor eigenstate. It is created in its flavour eigenstate but travels in its mass John Bachall eigenstate. The fact it travels so far without interaction allows us to observe it changing species in flight. In 2003 (or sometime around then) the SNO experiment in Canada was sensitive to electron neutrinos, muon and tau neutrinos. I determined that the solar neutrinos are 1/3 electron neutrinos and 2/3 the other two species. Of course the whole time we can compare the number of neutrinos we observe with what we would expect from optical and radio data from the sun and this all agrees to within experimental uncertainty.

Its worth noting that the modern generation of detectors do have tracking abilities. They can use the kinematics of the outgoing particles from a neutrino interaction to determine where it came from. The tracking on the big neutrino observatories isn't great but its good enough to say roughly where neutrinos are coming from. You can certainly see though the Earth reliably which is the important bit. We can of course also study neutrinos from cosmic rays and we can tell that there are cosmic rays hitting the otherside of whatever from Japan. So the cosmos is isotropic even if the Earth is a giant CD.

Finally back to beam neutrinos, topology can be a very difficult subject with strange manifolds and bizarre differential equations, thats why god gave us balls, paper and pencils. The challenge is to take the pencil and put it in the ball such that it comes out of the otherside, easy probably don't even need to puncture the ball. Now do the same to the paper without bending it. This is a substantially less trivial task. Ah, but what I were to bend the pencil (i.e. the neutrino beam bends) a cunning and devious solution. Except the neutrino beam is very weakly interacting so there would need to be a very dense source of matter down there, way, denser than a neutrino star. Also as the beams we have used so far only go a few Km under ground we would expect this to be on the same order as the Earths deeper mines. Yet I have heard no rumors of diamond mines swallowed up by a close black hole. Also something that dense would warp space so much that wired things would happen if you got into a plane not that the plane would get of the ground that close to something this dense. For those who like science we could study the structure of this layer by looking at the flavour consistency of the emerging neutrinos, but we dont even see any change in our beam flux so we're back to a flat piece of paper and a rigid pencil. Anyway I'm just having fun now.
Title: Re: Solar Neutrinos
Post by: trig on January 30, 2009, 09:31:21 AM
In all this discussion one simple fact about the neutrino sensors is not mentioned: these sensors detect individual neutrinos that coincidentally smash the nucleus of an atom of a heavy water molecule. The direction of every individual detected neutrino is measured with some precision. Only a few neutrinos are detected each day, so you just cannot have a strange interaction of several neutrinos giving the illusion of a different origin of the neutrinos.

Every single detected neutrino is either known to have come from the general position where the Sun is or known to have come from a different place. With some statistics you can take the coincidences into account and get to the inescapable conclusion that most of the neutrinos come from the general direction where modern science calculates the Sun is.

The only way to explain this is to add the scientists from every neutrino observatory to the long list of conspirators. Or, just maybe, accept that there is no conspiracy and that every FE model is unsustainable.
Title: Re: Solar Neutrinos
Post by: bowler on February 01, 2009, 02:59:55 PM
True SuperKamiokande has just had a big upgrade which will improve its tracking even further. Though I think linking individual events to the sun is probably old hat now unless your doing a specific solar neutrino analysis. Although in practise that is probably done on the energy of the neutrino as thats an equally good way to distinguish from the interstellar background.
Title: Re: Solar Neutrinos
Post by: Tom Bishop on February 01, 2009, 03:46:14 PM
In all this discussion one simple fact about the neutrino sensors is not mentioned: these sensors detect individual neutrinos that coincidentally smash the nucleus of an atom of a heavy water molecule. The direction of every individual detected neutrino is measured with some precision. Only a few neutrinos are detected each day, so you just cannot have a strange interaction of several neutrinos giving the illusion of a different origin of the neutrinos.

Every single detected neutrino is either known to have come from the general position where the Sun is or known to have come from a different place. With some statistics you can take the coincidences into account and get to the inescapable conclusion that most of the neutrinos come from the general direction where modern science calculates the Sun is.

The only way to explain this is to add the scientists from every neutrino observatory to the long list of conspirators. Or, just maybe, accept that there is no conspiracy and that every FE model is unsustainable.

Where's the data to demonstrate this unfounded contention?
Title: Re: Solar Neutrinos
Post by: cbarnett97 on February 01, 2009, 04:12:15 PM
Right here (http://www.letmegooglethatforyou.com/?q=Solar+Neutrinos/)
Title: Re: Solar Neutrinos
Post by: bowler on February 01, 2009, 04:24:53 PM
A concise review of solar neutrino physics can be found in http://arxiv.org/abs/hep-ex/0312045.
This contains an older superKamiokande plot showing the origin of its neutrinos relative to the location of the sun assuming a spherical Earth.

The latest Super-K can be found at: http://arxiv.org/abs/0803.4312

The SNO experiment is also worth I think there approach is more elegant but the plots are more involved.
Title: Re: Solar Neutrinos
Post by: Tom Bishop on February 01, 2009, 04:41:31 PM
So still no data which demonstrates that the neutrinos can only come from the sun?
Title: Re: Solar Neutrinos
Post by: bowler on February 01, 2009, 04:56:41 PM
The papers I have linked to show that the vast majority of neutrinos detected on the Earth originate from the point in the sky where the spherical Earth theory predicts the sun is.

While I'm at this the follwoing are results from some of the experiments that have fired neutrinos into the Earths crust and then studied the emerging beam where the spherical Earth hypothesis predicts.

K2K - http://arxiv.org/abs/hep-ex/0606032
MINOS - http://arxiv.org/pdf/0711.0769v1
Title: Re: Solar Neutrinos
Post by: markjo on February 01, 2009, 08:00:41 PM
So still no data which demonstrates that the neutrinos can only come from the sun?

Tom, it has been clearly stated that neutrinos come from a variety of sources including, but not limited to the sun.  It has also been shown that the source of these neutrinos can be determined based on their direction, frequency and oscillation characteristics.  Are you having trouble keeping up again?
Title: Re: Solar Neutrinos
Post by: cbarnett97 on February 01, 2009, 08:32:44 PM
So still no data which demonstrates that the neutrinos can only come from the sun?

Tom, it has been clearly stated that neutrinos come from a variety of sources including, but not limited to the sun.  It has also been shown that the source of these neutrinos can be determined based on their direction, frequency and oscillation characteristics.  Are you having trouble keeping up again?
Tom hasnt been programmed to read mathematical information so he can not understand the data
Title: Re: Solar Neutrinos
Post by: Tom Bishop on February 01, 2009, 10:49:59 PM
Tom, it has been clearly stated that neutrinos come from a variety of sources including, but not limited to the sun.  It has also been shown that the source of these neutrinos can be determined based on their direction, frequency and oscillation characteristics.  Are you having trouble keeping up again?

Right, so where's the data demonstrating that the neutrinos we see can only come from the sun?

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the vast majority of neutrinos detected on the Earth originate from the point in the sky where the spherical Earth theory predicts the sun is.

Where's the data to support this contention?
Title: Re: Solar Neutrinos
Post by: cbarnett97 on February 01, 2009, 11:42:10 PM
Tom, it has been clearly stated that neutrinos come from a variety of sources including, but not limited to the sun.  It has also been shown that the source of these neutrinos can be determined based on their direction, frequency and oscillation characteristics.  Are you having trouble keeping up again?

Right, so where's the data demonstrating that the neutrinos we see can only come from the sun?

Who ever said this?
Title: Re: Solar Neutrinos
Post by: bowler on February 02, 2009, 01:20:22 AM
The data is in the links I posted, I did actually check on another machine that my posts appeared. I even picked the paper that used colour images, unfortunately there isn't a ladybird book published as of yet. I cannot actually decide if you never read them, weren't prepared to find out or dont even believe the world is flat and are simply having me on. None of which I particularly appreciate to be honest given that I went to the trouble of finding the data you requested.

If you aren't prepared to look at experimental data we should probably move this whole debate to a religion forum because it by definition is not science.
Title: Re: Solar Neutrinos
Post by: cbarnett97 on February 02, 2009, 01:23:45 AM
We are all pretty convinced that tom is a script so just keep that in mind when you "debate" with him
Title: Re: Solar Neutrinos
Post by: Tom Bishop on February 02, 2009, 01:40:02 AM
Who ever said this?

You're supposed to be demonstrating that the neutrinos are coming from the sun. You haven't.

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The data is in the links I posted, I did actually check on another machine that my posts appeared. I even picked the paper that used colour images, unfortunately there isn't a ladybird book published as of yet. I cannot actually decide if you never read them, weren't prepared to find out or dont even believe the world is flat and are simply having me on. None of which I particularly appreciate to be honest given that I went to the trouble of finding the data you requested.

If you aren't prepared to look at experimental data we should probably move this whole debate to a religion forum because it by definition is not science.

Show us the data. There's nothing in those links demonstrating that the neutrinos can only come from the sun.
Title: Re: Solar Neutrinos
Post by: cbarnett97 on February 02, 2009, 01:41:40 AM
Who ever said this?

You're supposed to be demonstrating that the neutrinos are coming from the sun. You haven't.

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The data is in the links I posted, I did actually check on another machine that my posts appeared. I even picked the paper that used colour images, unfortunately there isn't a ladybird book published as of yet. I cannot actually decide if you never read them, weren't prepared to find out or dont even believe the world is flat and are simply having me on. None of which I particularly appreciate to be honest given that I went to the trouble of finding the data you requested.

If you aren't prepared to look at experimental data we should probably move this whole debate to a religion forum because it by definition is not science.

Show us the data. There's nothing demonstrating in those links that the neutrinos can only come from the sun.
We did, read the papers in the links provided
Title: Re: Solar Neutrinos
Post by: cbarnett97 on February 02, 2009, 01:43:02 AM
Though you may have to get a better understanding of science first
Title: Re: Solar Neutrinos
Post by: Tom Bishop on February 02, 2009, 01:44:38 AM
We did, read the papers in the links provided

So no data then?
Title: Re: Solar Neutrinos
Post by: bowler on February 02, 2009, 02:46:40 AM
I'm now fairly sure that you are having me on. I guess the money shot is the figure in the first showing the angle between where the spherical Earth theory predicts the sun to be and the direction that neutrinos are coming from. The other point I should make is that I'm still not happy with the question you are asking and you seem to ignore any of my attempts to correct you. Neutrinos do not only come from the sun, they come from all over space. However as that paper shows the vast majority of the ones we see from Earth come from the direction of the sun. So the question I have answered is; When viewed from Earth where do the neutrinos of energies created by nuclear fusion come from?

I still don't understand why the beams going through the Earth is being ignored I would have said that is even better evidence.

Im really not aiming this at people who are determined to believe the round is flat, or to be honest, those who believe it is spherical if they have no evidence for it. If the shape of the world is a matter of religion to you then you could go up in a space ship and say that it was all smoke and mirrors.
Title: Re: Solar Neutrinos
Post by: cbarnett97 on February 02, 2009, 03:00:04 AM
I know ot os hard to click a link so here:

 B. Oscillation Results -SK Only
A minimization of the 2 in the previous section yields excluded regions when β and η are left unconstrained. By constraining the 8B ux to the total NC ux value from SNO [12], allowed parameter regions can be ob-tained. Figure 15 shows both excluded and allowed re-gions at 95% con dence level. They are consistent with previous SK-I results. The primary constraint in SK-II is from the time-variation data although some spectral exclusion is also seen at m2 ≈ 10쀀4eV2 . The same os-cillation analysis is performed while including 2 terms corresponding to the SK-I values (namely, the spectrum and unbinned time variation for SK-I). In this combined analysis, SK-II helps expand the 95% c.l. exclusion from the SK-I-only analysis, mostly along a region dominated by the spectral constraint (10쀀4 < tan2 θ < 0:4 and 4 ? 10쀀5eV2 < m2 < 2 ? 10쀀4eV2). However, when constraining 8B to the SNO NC ux, the SK allowed regions are largely una ected by the addition of SK-II data. C. Oscillation Results -SK and Other Solar Experiments The combination of other solar neutrino experiments such as the SNO and radiochemical results with the    SK combined analysis is accomplished by tting the to-tal CC and NC rates observed by SNO's 306-day pure D2O [13] and 391-day salt phases [12]. Also, the SNO NC constrained predicted day-night asymmetry for the pure D2O phase is used for added exclusion power. The radiochemical experiments of Homestake, GALLEX, and SAGE [14] are then added using the best 8B and hep uxes from the SK-SNO t. Figure 15 shows the com-bined solar allowed areas. The best t parameter set is tan2 θ = 0:40 and m2 = 6:0310쀀5eV2 consistent with the SK-I global analysis.
 V. CONCLUSION
Super-Kamiokande has measured the solar 8B ux to be (2:38 ? 0:05(stat.)+0:16 쀀0:15(sys.)) ? 106 cm쀀2sec쀀1 during its second phase. The uncertainties in SK-II are larger than in SK-I but a low analysis threshold of 7 MeV was achieved (7.5 MeV in the day-night variation analysis). A day-night asymmetry value was observed to be 쀀0:063 ? 0:042(stat.) ? 0:037(sys.) which is consistent with zero and the result from SK-I. SK-II has brought the total SK time-dependent ux measurement to a length of 9.5 years and this measurement is compared with solar activity in solar cycle 23 resulting in no strong correlation. In the combined SK-I and SK-II global oscillation analysis, the best t is found to favor the LMA region at tan2 θ = 0:40 and m2 = 6:03 ? 10쀀5eV2, in excellent agreement with previous solar neutrino oscillation measurements. SK-I and SK-II agree well, showing no evidence of any systematic e ects from the introduction of new methods, blast shields, reduced PMT coverage, etc.
Title: Re: Solar Neutrinos
Post by: bowler on February 02, 2009, 03:15:09 AM
Thats the mixing result and the consistency with different models of matter effects on neutrino oscillation. Not sure how useful it is here, its really the plot showing where the neutrinos come from that matters. While the oscillation analysis does provide evidence I'm not going to argue it here.
Title: Re: Solar Neutrinos
Post by: markjo on February 02, 2009, 02:52:56 PM
We did, read the papers in the links provided

So no data then?

Tom, why should he post data to support a claim that he never made? ???
Title: Re: Solar Neutrinos
Post by: Euclid on February 02, 2009, 07:02:02 PM
(http://i307.photobucket.com/albums/nn291/gary2914458/Gla.png?t=1233629845)

Here is the key graph.  It depicts the number of events as a function of cosine of angle to the Sun.  There is a clear peak at 1, representing solar neutrinos.  The other events along the line ~.08 represent other background neutrinos.
Title: Re: Solar Neutrinos
Post by: bowler on February 03, 2009, 01:23:21 AM
Thanks, I couldn't b bothered to cut that out.
Title: Re: Solar Neutrinos
Post by: basketballjones on February 03, 2009, 07:37:23 PM
This graph is related to your Neutrino graph. I'd rather put it in this thread rather than make a new one since i feel it and the Neutrino graph are compelling evidence of a RE.

(http://www.physicalgeography.net/fundamentals/images/insolation_latitude.gif)

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Insolation is a measure of solar radiation energy received on a given surface area in a given time.

Notice the blue line detailing the insolation at the equator and the double peak. Note that on the August/September border the amount of solar radiation received by the equator is (slightly) less than what is received at 30 degrees N but more than what is received at 60 degrees N. In a RE world this is explained by the tilt of the earth's axis and subsequent oscillation of the equator above and below the plane of the ecliptic. I can't come up with any plausible explanation that fits with a FE world (although they could claim the graph doesnt actually match the real world i guess)
Title: Re: Solar Neutrinos
Post by: Euclid on February 04, 2009, 03:14:42 AM
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(although they could claim the graph doesnt actually match the real world i guess)

Bingo.  That's exactly what Tom will claim.  Get used to it.
Title: Re: Solar Neutrinos
Post by: ghazwozza on February 04, 2009, 07:57:45 AM
What a brilliant thread. It's been said before, but congrats to Bowler.
It's just annoying to see a good thread descend into stupidity when TB arrives.
Title: Re: Solar Neutrinos
Post by: bowler on February 05, 2009, 08:57:04 AM
Thanks I thought it was a nice little proof. Its helpful that the Earth is transparent to something.
Title: Re: Solar Neutrinos
Post by: Dr Matrix on February 05, 2009, 01:10:16 PM
...Mostly.
Title: Re: Solar Neutrinos
Post by: Johannes on February 05, 2009, 01:57:57 PM
(http://i307.photobucket.com/albums/nn291/gary2914458/Gla.png?t=1233629845)

Here is the key graph.  It depicts the number of events as a function of cosine of angle to the Sun.  There is a clear peak at 1, representing solar neutrinos.  The other events along the line ~.08 represent other background neutrinos.
Proof that is real?
Title: Re: Solar Neutrinos
Post by: cbarnett97 on February 05, 2009, 02:00:20 PM
(http://i307.photobucket.com/albums/nn291/gary2914458/Gla.png?t=1233629845)

Here is the key graph.  It depicts the number of events as a function of cosine of angle to the Sun.  There is a clear peak at 1, representing solar neutrinos.  The other events along the line ~.08 represent other background neutrinos.
Proof that is real?
Read the entire scientific report, if you dispute its findings conduct your own experiment to refute his one then publish those results. Or learn a bunch of math and find an error in what they have published or GTFO your choice.
Title: Re: Solar Neutrinos
Post by: bowler on February 05, 2009, 02:30:15 PM
Well if you choose to disbelieve an experiment that your choice but its good have a reason. Theres a lot of checks before these plots are shown. Because every little flaw and statistically significant histogram bin will be queried at conference having been in some you need to have a good result to be accepted. You can of course argue that the scientists are in on the conspiracy I know personally thats not true but obviously theres no reason to take my word for it.
Title: Re: Solar Neutrinos
Post by: ghazwozza on February 05, 2009, 04:11:46 PM
Proof that is real?

Why do we bother? We RE'ers could have the most beautifully constructed argument tying together theory and evidence, and the FE'ers would claim it's a fabrication and we can't be trusted (something we obviously can't disprove).

How about FE'ers stick to science or STFU?
Title: Re: Solar Neutrinos
Post by: bowler on February 06, 2009, 02:37:31 PM
I first posted on here a while ago to bring my neutrino argument to the forum and I have ended up in many others. In some ways I quite enjoy this forum, despite having done science at all levels for some time I had never asked myself what shape I thought the world is, like many I had just assumed it was an oblate spheroid. I have no thought it through for myself and decided that I agree with the majority that the world is roughly spherical. However the point is a good one that there is no reason to believe something just because everyone else does, mind you often there is a good reason that everyone holds the same opinion about something.

This final post is going to be a short rant about scientific method and proof. Modern philosophy of science is largely based around Karl Popper and Thomas Khun. It is true that it takes an infinite number of experiments to prove something true and only 1 experiment to prove it false. In this spirit electromagnetism is still a theory despite experiment and theory being confirmed to the 11th or so decimal place. After all who knows what we will find at the 12th decimal place. What bothers me about much of the debate here is a huge amount of hypocrisy. A person visiting this forum as someone who genuinely has no idea what shape the world is flat, spherical, doughnut will find little evidence the world is flat just tirade of conspiracy theories against anything that suggests the world is round (most of modern science). Much of the FE argument is concerned with trying to show that all of the spherical Earth evidence is either part of a conspiracy as in the solar neutrino, GPS, air travel, mapping discussions. Unknown science as in the Solar neutrino, Sun, geology, optics discussions. There is an intense belief, fervently religious in nature, that the world in flat regardless of evidence, I cannot find a single thread where the spherical Earth is on the defensive. Its all trying to reinterpret the spherical Earth data to fit a flat Earth usually inducing new physics of a conspiracy or both.

On that note I don't think that scientifically I have anything further to add not that science really has much to do with it. Another neutrino beam experiment will start in 2 months. No one ever addressed my first original challenge of taking a straight rod, inserting into a flat surface and making it re-emerge at another point on the surface. Always keep looking but do remember that sometimes a cigar is just a cigar.
Title: Re: Solar Neutrinos
Post by: Johannes on February 06, 2009, 09:59:18 PM
Proof that is real?

Why do we bother? We RE'ers could have the most beautifully constructed argument tying together theory and evidence, and the FE'ers would claim it's a fabrication and we can't be trusted (something we obviously can't disprove).

How about FE'ers stick to science or STFU?
Posting a graph is not science.
Title: Re: Solar Neutrinos
Post by: cbarnett97 on February 06, 2009, 10:02:15 PM
Proof that is real?

Why do we bother? We RE'ers could have the most beautifully constructed argument tying together theory and evidence, and the FE'ers would claim it's a fabrication and we can't be trusted (something we obviously can't disprove).

How about FE'ers stick to science or STFU?
Posting a graph is not science.
Correct but the paper it was attached to is, so go read that and get back to us
Title: Re: Solar Neutrinos
Post by: Johannes on February 06, 2009, 11:15:53 PM
there is no paper

have any more delusions to reveal?
Title: Re: Solar Neutrinos
Post by: bowler on February 07, 2009, 03:17:02 AM
This is utterly farcical. I don't think ill be posting any more. I came to discuss the science but there is precious little science. This is a full on wear a hat made of tin foil conspiracy theory and nothing more. 
Title: Re: Solar Neutrinos
Post by: Jack on February 07, 2009, 03:48:54 AM
Proof that is real?

Why do we bother? We RE'ers could have the most beautifully constructed argument tying together theory and evidence, and the FE'ers would claim it's a fabrication and we can't be trusted (something we obviously can't disprove).

How about FE'ers stick to science or STFU?
Posting a graph is not science.
Johannes, debating against RE'ers is wonderful; however, you need to tone yourself down a bit with the low-content postings.
Title: Re: Solar Neutrinos
Post by: bowler on February 08, 2009, 02:28:20 PM
Something I forgot to post before is that a large scale neutrino experiment is currently under construction at the Scott-Amundsen station on Antarctica. This lies within a couple of hundred meters of the geographic south pole under the RE theory. Of course I guess under FE theory it could be just about anywhere. Im not going to attempt to discuss the implications of the Physics. But the time it takes to get to this lab is apparently not significantly different from either New Zealand or South America. Though I guess they could be taken to a remote part of the Sahara where a local space time distortion involving matter causes it to be really really cold.
Title: Re: Solar Neutrinos
Post by: ghazwozza on February 09, 2009, 03:27:35 AM
Scott-Amundsen station

This phrase will cause Tom to dismiss this experiment entirely.
Title: Re: Solar Neutrinos
Post by: Ergonomicsky on February 15, 2009, 01:09:32 PM
*bump for response*

Because I thought that the essays "bowler" has presented here, are perfect examples of carefully conducted experiments that irrefutably showed us this: the largest part of the neutrinos that come through Eart's crust - thus "from underground" - or to Earth as a whole, are descended from the Sun => 3 possibilities:

1. Earth is really round, spinning around its axis and orbiting the Sun
2. FET-sun has an "anti-Sun" underneath Earth's disk, which explains the solar neutrinos coming through the crust
3. If there's no anti-sun, the somehow FET-sun is able to "catapult" its neutrinos around and under Earth's disk, to have them rise up again through Earth's crust.

As long as FET doesn't come up with an acceptable explanation for the phenomenon of solar neutrinos "shooting up through Earth's crust", then this phenomenon is clear proof against the flatness of the Earth.
Title: Re: Solar Neutrinos
Post by: bowler on February 17, 2009, 04:51:55 PM
Actually we can remove the sun from the equation altogether. People keep forgetting the beam experiments that fire neutrinos into the crust at one point and measure the emerging beam at another point hundreds of km away. This at first only appears to prove the Earth has a curved surface. But the face that if the Earth was not the shape we think it is then the beams would miss the detectors and, well, they don't miss.
Title: Re: Solar Neutrinos
Post by: Johannes on February 18, 2009, 07:53:18 PM
Neutrinos do not exist.
Title: Re: Solar Neutrinos
Post by: Chief Standing Horse on February 18, 2009, 08:04:55 PM
Neutrinos do not exist.

I'd like to see some evidence of that. :)
Title: Re: Solar Neutrinos
Post by: hi on February 18, 2009, 08:58:58 PM
Fuck Yes!

Finally a topic that the Fe'res are placed in our posistion (but we have actual proof).

I would like to thank bowler for discussing the ideas of quantum and partical physics, this is a moment I have been waiting for. If I was more educated in physics (planning on getting my degree in it when I finally get to college, right now I'm just in my high school physics class) I would pitch in.

Face in FE'ers you can't compete with this, all you can do is make up more crap and hope we believe it.

(sorry I was a bit excited)
Title: Re: Solar Neutrinos
Post by: Johannes on February 18, 2009, 09:02:14 PM
There is no compelling proof of neutrinos, if you have taken college level physics classes like many of us FE'ers have you would know that.
Title: Re: Solar Neutrinos
Post by: hi on February 18, 2009, 09:41:17 PM
There is no compelling proof of neutrinos, if you have taken college level physics classes like many of us FE'ers have you would know that.
I will be taking AP Physics C next year, which will give me a further understanding of the physics field before i head off till college.
Title: Re: Solar Neutrinos
Post by: hi on February 18, 2009, 09:52:01 PM
But I'm going to stay out of this topic for now, I'm not educated well enough to understand the full concepts of partical and quantum physics. So till I gain the knowledge I'm going to remain quiet in topics like these.

So please continue on I appologize for the disturbance.
Title: Re: Solar Neutrinos
Post by: bowler on February 19, 2009, 01:08:42 AM
Oooooo what about if your PhD is in particle physics? The neutrino was discovered in 1956 though the first accurate experiments came later. Now though they are created and detected as a matter of course. If you were told that neutrinos were still hypothetical on any course in the last 40 years or so i'd ask hard questions of your Physics department.
Title: Re: Solar Neutrinos
Post by: Dr Matrix on February 19, 2009, 11:13:31 AM
There is no coherent FET argument regarding solar neutrinos. Chalk it up to a win for RE and move on to the next topic :)
Title: Re: Solar Neutrinos
Post by: ghazwozza on February 19, 2009, 01:23:28 PM
Neutrinos do not exist.

So what particle preserves spin in beta decay?

You're trying to overturn an enormous amount of science here. You'd better have a good theory and some solid evidence to go with this.
Title: Re: Solar Neutrinos
Post by: Dr Matrix on February 19, 2009, 01:44:22 PM
You'd better have a good theory and some solid evidence to go with this.

In b4 teh burden of proof.
Title: Re: Solar Neutrinos
Post by: Johannes on February 20, 2009, 06:10:55 PM
Neutrinos do not exist.

So what particle preserves spin in beta decay?

You're trying to overturn an enormous amount of science here. You'd better have a good theory and some solid evidence to go with this.
You don't need evidence to prove a theory wrong.
Title: Re: Solar Neutrinos
Post by: ghazwozza on February 20, 2009, 06:12:43 PM
Neutrinos do not exist.

So what particle preserves spin in beta decay?

You're trying to overturn an enormous amount of science here. You'd better have a good theory and some solid evidence to go with this.
You don't need evidence to prove a theory wrong.

No, but there's a titanic quantity of evidence for the neutrino. I'm asking you why you are ignoring this.

Also, you still haven't answered my question: what particle conserves spin during beta decay?
Title: Re: Solar Neutrinos
Post by: Johannes on February 20, 2009, 06:42:15 PM
Unknown, the standard model is held together by duck/t tape and will be exposed as fraud pretty soon.
Title: Re: Solar Neutrinos
Post by: ghazwozza on February 21, 2009, 06:31:28 AM
Unknown, the standard model is held together by duck/t tape and will be exposed as fraud pretty soon.

At the moment, all you have is a belief that particle physicists are wrong. Not just wrong, but spectacularly so. Belief doesn't cut it in scientific debate.

So, any word form the FE'ers on where the neutrinos are coming from at night? Or how a beam of neutrinos was sent through the Earth?
Title: Re: Solar Neutrinos
Post by: Ambassadork on February 21, 2009, 03:56:38 PM
...Or how a beam of neutrinos was sent through the Earth?
Obviously they had someone from "The Fraternity" fire the neutrinos so that they would bend.  ::)
Title: Re: Solar Neutrinos
Post by: trig on February 22, 2009, 09:02:37 AM
You don't need evidence to prove a theory wrong.
Talk about low content postings.
Ghazwozza, you are being too kind by acknowledging an excessively simplified and mostly wrong statement. Truth is, Johannes Kepler knows next to nothing about the scientific method.
Title: Re: Solar Neutrinos
Post by: Johannes on February 22, 2009, 10:33:03 PM
ghazwozza, do you have an open source neutrino detector I can build? If something can not be replicated it is not admissible evidence.
Title: Re: Solar Neutrinos
Post by: markjo on February 22, 2009, 10:45:23 PM
ghazwozza, do you have an open source neutrino detector I can build? If something can not be replicated it is not admissible evidence.

As I recall, the early neutrino detectors were basically a large pools of ultra pure water a kilometer or so underground surrounded by very sensitive photodetectors.  Essentially, they were looking for the Cherenkov effect as the passing neutrinos react with the water molecules.  Shouldn't be too hard to replicate.
Title: Re: Solar Neutrinos
Post by: Johannes on February 22, 2009, 10:47:19 PM
ghazwozza, do you have an open source neutrino detector I can build? If something can not be replicated it is not admissible evidence.

As I recall, the early neutrino detectors were basically a large pools of ultra pure water a kilometer or so underground surrounded by very sensitive photodetectors.  Essentially, they were looking for the Cherenkov effect as the passing neutrinos react with the water molecules.  Shouldn't be too hard to replicate.
Instructions please.
Title: Re: Solar Neutrinos
Post by: markjo on February 22, 2009, 10:59:10 PM
ghazwozza, do you have an open source neutrino detector I can build? If something can not be replicated it is not admissible evidence.

As I recall, the early neutrino detectors were basically a large pools of ultra pure water a kilometer or so underground surrounded by very sensitive photodetectors.  Essentially, they were looking for the Cherenkov effect as the passing neutrinos react with the water molecules.  Shouldn't be too hard to replicate.
Instructions please.
Sorry, but that would contaminate your "clean room" replication (very important in the review process).  You can't allow any possibility of conspiracy influence in your design.
Title: Re: Solar Neutrinos
Post by: Robbyj on February 23, 2009, 01:02:13 AM
Shouldn't be too hard to replicate.

Except for that kilometer deep hole in the ground you have to dig.
Title: Re: Solar Neutrinos
Post by: bowler on February 23, 2009, 02:42:12 AM
Well I know they exist having visited some but that doesn't prove i'm not lying I suppose. The standard model is not held together by duck tape, it is the most successful theory ever designed. Which is a real pain because it is not compatible with GR so we know its wrong somewhere. Quietly many are hoping that the Higgs does not exist (or at least something else as well as the Higgs would be the real jackpot) because if we don't find a crack soon we will have real problems. Although much of neutrino physics is beyond the standard model anyway so the standard model is not really relevant here anyway.

Most modern neutrino experiments are done with large tanks of liquid often water though other materials are better but more expensive. This is to get more events and also to reconstruct precise kinematic information. Do merely detect neutrinos then far simpler apparatus is needed and in principle can be done with equipment from a hardware store, the limiting factor is the quantity need which puts costs up.

DIY neutrino detector instructions:
1) Fill a large container with salt water Cadmium Chloride is best as cadmium is a large atom but I think any salt will work just the event rate will be lower. Though of course the sensitivity to different energies of neutrino will change.
2) Set up scintillator paddles around the outside of the tank.
3) Look for coincidence of the two gamma rays produced by a neutrino interaction  followed by a neutron decay after a short gap.

There are lots of variations on a theme and one would want to tailor their exact experiments around whether they wanted to look for solar neutrinos or ones produced by man made activity. But with appropriate modification the procedure above will find low energy neutrinos.
Title: Re: Solar Neutrinos
Post by: ghazwozza on February 23, 2009, 03:33:50 AM
ghazwozza, do you have an open source neutrino detector I can build? If something can not be replicated it is not admissible evidence.

Sure, if you have a spare underground cavern, a few thousand photoreceptors and several million litres of salt solution handy.

If you don't trust the scientists, then go and get a phD in the field and start working at one of these places: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_neutrino_experiments (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_neutrino_experiments). You're right in saying science needs to be repeatable, but not necessarily easily repeatable.
Title: Re: Solar Neutrinos
Post by: Pongo on February 23, 2009, 04:38:59 AM
Which is a real pain because it is not compatible with GR so we know its wrong somewhere. Quietly many are hoping that the Higgs does not exist

You aren't allowed to tease me with advanced scientific theory and not dumb it down to laymen terms so I can understand it!
Title: Re: Solar Neutrinos
Post by: bowler on February 23, 2009, 05:18:34 AM
The standard model pf particle physics describes our understanding of 3 of the 4 fundamental forces. The 4 fundamental forces are gravitation (see i'm being good), the strong force, the weak force and electromagnetism. The electromagnetic and weak force are actually the same force at high energy called the electroweak force. The Higgs boson is a result of the electroweak theory and gives inertial mass to quarks and leptons (essentially everything as this includes electrons, protons and neutrons). The strong force is still a separate force but can also be explained by quantum field theory the mathematical framework in which all of this is described. However there is some reason to believe that at high energy this may unite with the electroweak force. While this theory, electroweak in particular, has proved spectacularly successful it has a number of annoying holes. The biggest of which is its complete incompatibility with general relativity. In everyday physics this is not important the behavior of an atom is not significantly affected by gravity of small scales and the behavior of the Earth and the sun is not significantly affected by a single electron. However to fully understand the interplay between spacetime and matter this is important, i've pinched this next bit whole from the wiki entry on the Planck Scale.
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Because the Compton wavelength is roughly equal to the Schwarzschild radius of a black hole at the Planck scale, a photon with sufficient energy to probe this realm would yield no information whatsoever. Any photon energetic enough to precisely measure a Planck-sized object could actually create a particle of that dimension, but it would be massive enough to immediately become a black hole (a.k.a Planck particle), thus completely distorting that region of space, and swallowing the photon. This is the most extreme example possible of the uncertainty principle, and explains why only a quantum gravity theory reconciling general relativity with quantum mechanics will allow us to understand the dynamics of space-time at this scale.
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There are other problems with the standard model more related to this thread such as the mass of the neutrino, which interestingly can relate to the bit above. This is a very interesting if not speculative area of physics which I can't really do justice to here. Its probably not true to say that people would like not to find the Higgs but they'd certainly like to find other stuff. Finding the Higgs would be fantastic, if not rather expected, but it doesn't give as a clue as to these other conundrums. What we would really like to find are clues as to how to link GR and the standard model. The graviton maybe a bit optimistic but some clues wold be fantastic.
Title: Re: Solar Neutrinos
Post by: markjo on February 23, 2009, 06:25:04 AM
Shouldn't be too hard to replicate.

Except for that kilometer deep hole in the ground you have to dig.

What's wrong, can't you find an old abandoned mine to use?
Title: Re: Solar Neutrinos
Post by: Johannes on February 23, 2009, 07:30:07 AM
I don't want to do original research, I want to peer review the work on solar neutrinos. Please post plans/code for the neutrino detector used in the study.

Otherwise the machinery could be rigged.
Title: Re: Solar Neutrinos
Post by: trig on February 23, 2009, 08:59:56 AM
I don't want to do original research, I want to peer review the work on solar neutrinos. Please post plans/code for the neutrino detector used in the study.

Otherwise the machinery could be rigged.
"Peer review" means review by peers, that is review by people of equal qualifications. You can review the published works if you like, since most university libraries are open to all. It would be better if you get into a physics graduate program, assuming you are qualified.

If those machines were rigged (something I am absolutely sure is not true) you are the least qualified to find the rigging mechanism. I have not seen from you even one complete argument where you show a model, a prediction and a comparison with observed results. Maybe not even a formula or a numeric result from an experiment or observation.

In short, I do not know the name for "review by people totally incapable of reviewing this subject".
Title: Re: Solar Neutrinos
Post by: Johannes on February 23, 2009, 09:17:06 AM
Ok - just as I expected. RE doesn't reveal how to make the instrumentation that "proves" RE. I should have said earlier that solar neutrinos do not exist, as the name "neutrino" is arbitrary.
Title: Re: Solar Neutrinos
Post by: bowler on February 23, 2009, 09:32:53 AM
The experiments you need to study are SNO and Superkamiokande. There were earlier ones, particularly the Homestake experiment, but all the modern results come from these two. SNO and Super-K have detailed results on the arXiv pre-print server if you don't have academic access. To get details of the hardware will probably need to read the Technical Design Report as the analysis papers may not contain suitable data, this will available on public facing websites. The only real evidence I can give that this is not faked data is that hundreds of Physicists in multi-national collaborations design this, not the CIA. To fake this data would require the co-ordination of many physicists to be honest given the evidence from beam neutrinos passing into and out of the crust (K2K, MINOS, CNGS) as well in practice the whole particle physics community would have to be in on it.

Though as trig says, if you have to ask where to find the data you probably won't know enough of the subtle details to do a real critical analysis. Rather like asking to try a car then asking how to make it start. I don't mean that in a condescending way I know how to find a large number of physics papers but no nothing like enough to really get into the cracks. So if i don't even know enough about the field to find the articles i'm unlikely to be able to do a 'peer review'.
Title: Re: Solar Neutrinos
Post by: ghazwozza on February 23, 2009, 10:01:10 AM
Ok - just as I expected. RE doesn't reveal how to make the instrumentation that "proves" RE. I should have said earlier that solar neutrinos do not exist, as the name "neutrino" is arbitrary.

Everyone ignore him, he's just trolling.
Title: Re: Solar Neutrinos
Post by: trig on February 23, 2009, 10:01:24 AM
Ok - just as I expected. RE doesn't reveal how to make the instrumentation that "proves" RE. I should have said earlier that solar neutrinos do not exist, as the name "neutrino" is arbitrary.

There is a nice little instrument that "proves" (gives enormous amounts of evidence for) modern science, or, as you call it, RE. Well, in fact it's two: a sextant and a clock. Or a telescope and a clock, if you prefer.

But beware, the Secret RE Police hunts down those who buy both items, and send them to the super-secret Gulag on the dark side of the Moon, only to return them as zombies. I should know, I feel strange after buying my telescope.
Title: Re: Solar Neutrinos
Post by: markjo on February 23, 2009, 10:32:02 AM
I don't want to do original research, I want to peer review the work on solar neutrinos. Please post plans/code for the neutrino detector used in the study.

Otherwise the machinery could be rigged.

That's why you should build  your own, so that you can be absolutely sure that it hasn't been rigged.
Title: Re: Solar Neutrinos
Post by: C-Ray on February 23, 2009, 02:24:59 PM
Even if you supplied him with the plans and the materials he wouldn't build the damn thing.  He's just being argumentative.  They constantly push aside accepted science.  Science that has been peer reviewed and accepted by the scientific community; yet they do nothing to advance their own theories.
Title: Re: Solar Neutrinos
Post by: markjo on February 23, 2009, 02:34:24 PM
Well, the fact that he doesn't know how neutrino detectors work simply proves that he isn't qualified to peer review the work anyways.
Title: Re: Solar Neutrinos
Post by: Johannes on February 23, 2009, 04:32:30 PM
Of course I don't know how your Neutrino detector works. You haven't posted the plans. This is starting to get pathetic. You guys like the scientific method where convenient... but when someone actually wants to peer review work you drop the notion of the necessity for repeatability.
Title: Re: Solar Neutrinos
Post by: Johannes on February 23, 2009, 04:35:03 PM
Ok - just as I expected. RE doesn't reveal how to make the instrumentation that "proves" RE. I should have said earlier that solar neutrinos do not exist, as the name "neutrino" is arbitrary.

Everyone ignore him, he's just trolling.
You are the one trolling.
Title: Re: Solar Neutrinos
Post by: markjo on February 23, 2009, 05:00:09 PM
Of course I don't know how your Neutrino detector works. You haven't posted the plans. This is starting to get pathetic. You guys like the scientific method where convenient... but when someone actually wants to peer review work you drop the notion of the necessity for repeatability.

Peer review is absolutely vital to scientific research.  However, since you admit that don't know anything about detecting neutrinos, that proves that you don't have the required expertise to competently review the experiments.  If you don't know what you're doing then it's pure research, not peer review (based on a line borrowed from Einstein, if I'm not mistaken). 
Title: Re: Solar Neutrinos
Post by: ghazwozza on February 23, 2009, 05:22:46 PM
Of course I don't know how your Neutrino detector works. You haven't posted the plans. This is starting to get pathetic.

Why should I spoon feed you? There is no reason to suspect that the experiments have been tampered with. Good, consistent science has been coming out of these detectors for years. If you really think there is foul play involved then go get the plans for yourself.

It's not our job to prove we're not lying -- that's an impossible task. It's up to you to expose fraud.

You guys like the scientific method where convenient... but when someone actually wants to peer review work you drop the notion of the necessity for repeatability.

We've always said it is repeatable. I don't see how the fact you can't figure out how to build a neutrino detector changes that.

OK, no more feeding the troll, I promise  ;)
Title: Re: Solar Neutrinos
Post by: Johannes on February 23, 2009, 05:23:18 PM
I have never said I know nothing about detecting Neutrinos. I don't know how the Neutrino detectors you cite work because you haven't posted documentation/instructions/source code.

I have studied nuclear physics... I'm no idiot. It would be naive for me to believe these detectors work without a doubt without inspecting them myself though.

Basically, you don't know how they work and are reluctant to admit it/ are hiding the fact that they do not really work....

Another victory for FE!
Title: Re: Solar Neutrinos
Post by: NTheGreat on February 23, 2009, 05:42:47 PM
I could quite easily say that you're trying to avoid learning how they work. Instead of investigating, you're just sitting here asking for everyone to spoon-feed you documents consisting of hours of work by architects, engineers physicists and programmers.

If you really feel that the scientists at the facility don't know how to detect neutrinos, then feel free to contact them and ask for evidence of how they do what they do. But they're not going to waste bandwidth hosting all the documentation about how every little aspect of the detector works.
Title: Re: Solar Neutrinos
Post by: markjo on February 23, 2009, 06:35:04 PM
I have never said I know nothing about detecting Neutrinos. I don't know how the Neutrino detectors you cite work because you haven't posted documentation/instructions/source code.

I have studied nuclear physics... I'm no idiot. It would be naive for me to believe these detectors work without a doubt without inspecting them myself though.

Basically, you don't know how they work and are reluctant to admit it/ are hiding the fact that they do not really work....

I never said that I knew the ins and outs of neutrino detectors.  I have a basic overview of how they work and that's about it.  What makes you think that I'm any more qualified to peer review the neutrino research than you are?   ???
Title: Re: Solar Neutrinos
Post by: hi on February 23, 2009, 07:06:46 PM
I have never said I know nothing about detecting Neutrinos. I don't know how the Neutrino detectors you cite work because you haven't posted documentation/instructions/source code.

I have studied nuclear physics... I'm no idiot. It would be naive for me to believe these detectors work without a doubt without inspecting them myself though.

Basically, you don't know how they work and are reluctant to admit it/ are hiding the fact that they do not really work....

Another victory for FE!
Not even close, I do believe earlier in this conversation there was a link or a discussion explaining how they work (not into full details though). Just the basics.
Title: Re: Solar Neutrinos
Post by: Johannes on February 23, 2009, 08:08:31 PM
I could quite easily say that you're trying to avoid learning how they work. Instead of investigating, you're just sitting here asking for everyone to spoon-feed you documents consisting of hours of work by architects, engineers physicists and programmers.

If you really feel that the scientists at the facility don't know how to detect neutrinos, then feel free to contact them and ask for evidence of how they do what they do. But they're not going to waste bandwidth hosting all the documentation about how every little aspect of the detector works.
Oh come on. Not very many people will be looking at neutrino detector specifications.
Title: Re: Solar Neutrinos
Post by: bowler on February 24, 2009, 02:46:08 AM
You'd be suprised. Firstly you have the neutrino direct neutrino physics community who design and calibrate and use the detectors. Which i'd estimate at 1000 people the the right order of magnitude. Then you have the funding councils and other scientists who review the designs again probably of the order 1000 people, probably less in detail but maybe more skim the documents. Then there are the civil engineers and architects who flesh out the specifics of the design from a mechanical perspective. Finally there are the thousands of contractors and builders involved in the construction. Usually some miners as well as far detectors are deep underground. These are not small devices in a lab, they are large civil engineering projects, the scientists who work on them do not constitute the main source of people who work on them.
Title: Re: Solar Neutrinos
Post by: trig on February 24, 2009, 05:40:29 AM
You'd be suprised. Firstly you have the neutrino direct neutrino physics community who design and calibrate and use the detectors. Which i'd estimate at 1000 people the the right order of magnitude. Then you have the funding councils and other scientists who review the designs again probably of the order 1000 people, probably less in detail but maybe more skim the documents. Then there are the civil engineers and architects who flesh out the specifics of the design from a mechanical perspective. Finally there are the thousands of contractors and builders involved in the construction. Usually some miners as well as far detectors are deep underground. These are not small devices in a lab, they are large civil engineering projects, the scientists who work on them do not constitute the main source of people who work on them.
And the neutrino detectors are similar to the detectors at the end of every particle accelerator, so lots of people have some knowledge about subatomic particle detection. Universities and hardware providers work hard in these subjects, and have some of the best minds in the world reviewing each other's work.

The amount of geniuses that has to be conned to make a multimillion dollar neutrino observatory that does not work is even larger than the 2000 you calculate. It would actually be easier to convince all of them, in all the 100 or more countries with advanced Physics programs to join in one big conspiracy.
Title: Re: Solar Neutrinos
Post by: Johannes on February 24, 2009, 01:24:26 PM
Even in 10000 people (huge overestimate) downloaded a 100 mb documentation file (huge overestimate) the bandwidth wouldn't be very expensive. Universities want to show off their research. Thats the whole point. Stop distracting from the argument. You have no documentation on how the neutrino detectors are assembled, therefore the legitimacy of the experiments is non-existent.
Title: Re: Solar Neutrinos
Post by: C-Ray on February 24, 2009, 01:38:39 PM
Here's documentation of the construction and calibration of a solar neutrino detector.
http://www.sno.phy.queensu.ca/sno/sno2.html#excavation (http://www.sno.phy.queensu.ca/sno/sno2.html#excavation)

I am in the process of looking for more.
Title: Re: Solar Neutrinos
Post by: trig on February 24, 2009, 03:26:08 PM
Even in 10000 people (huge overestimate) downloaded a 100 mb documentation file (huge overestimate) the bandwidth wouldn't be very expensive. Universities want to show off their research. Thats the whole point. Stop distracting from the argument. You have no documentation on how the neutrino detectors are assembled, therefore the legitimacy of the experiments is non-existent.
You are making my own point. Lots of people in lots of countries are working on our current state of the art installations and not-so-state-of-the-art installations. Most are repeating the experiments that demonstrated the standard model, others are breaking new ground. All of them have the problem of making invisible subatomic particles visible for a few nanoseconds so that they can be investigated, so the intricacies of the detectors used for neutrino observations are well known by lots of people. All have to be in the conspiracy or there is no conspiracy at all.

Of course, for somebody like you who has not shown even the simplest of abilities required to study physics, nobody is stressing himself to make the documentation available. You should show some capabilities even as a high school physics student even before trying to get access to the more advanced stuff.
Title: Re: Solar Neutrinos
Post by: zork on February 24, 2009, 04:04:55 PM
Here's documentation of the construction and calibration of a solar neutrino detector.
http://www.sno.phy.queensu.ca/sno/sno2.html#excavation (http://www.sno.phy.queensu.ca/sno/sno2.html#excavation)
Kepler, let us know when yo have dug hole big enough for neutrino detector.
Title: Re: Solar Neutrinos
Post by: markjo on February 24, 2009, 04:16:32 PM
Even in 10000 people (huge overestimate) downloaded a 100 mb documentation file (huge overestimate) the bandwidth wouldn't be very expensive. Universities want to show off their research. Thats the whole point. Stop distracting from the argument. You have no documentation on how the neutrino detectors are assembled, therefore the legitimacy of the experiments is non-existent.
You are making my own point. Lots of people in lots of countries are working on our current state of the art installations and not-so-state-of-the-art installations. Most are repeating the experiments that demonstrated the standard model, others are breaking new ground. All of them have the problem of making invisible subatomic particles visible for a few nanoseconds so that they can be investigated, so the intricacies of the detectors used for neutrino observations are well known by lots of people. All have to be in the conspiracy or there is no conspiracy at all.

Of course, for somebody like you who has not shown even the simplest of abilities required to study physics, nobody is stressing himself to make the documentation available. You should show some capabilities even as a high school physics student even before trying to get access to the more advanced stuff.

This may help:

Quote from: http://www.sno.phy.queensu.ca/sno/institutions.html
SNO Prime Contractors and Suppliers

    * Agra-Monenco/Canatom Limited (Project Management and design)
    * INCO Limited (Cavity excavation and support systems)
    * Dynatec International (Civil construction)
    * Reynolds Polymer Technology Incorporated (Acrylic vessel)
    * Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (Photomultiplier support structure)
    * Hamamatsu Photonics (Photomultipliers)
    * Schott Glass Incorporated (Photomultiplier glass bulbs)
    * CVD Manufacturing Inc. (CVD nickel for neutral current detectors)
    * Mirotech Limited (CVD nickel for neutral current detectors)

Of course that doesn't include all of the sub-contractors required.
Title: Re: Solar Neutrinos
Post by: Johannes on February 24, 2009, 06:45:15 PM
I am perfectly capable of studying physics. That is what I do for enjoyment.

Now please, documentation....
Title: Re: Solar Neutrinos
Post by: markjo on February 24, 2009, 07:16:59 PM
I am perfectly capable of studying physics. That is what I do for enjoyment.

Now please, documentation....

Then you should be capable of researching the documentation yourself too.  You have been provided with a list of contractors and suppliers to get you started.  I'm sure that each facility has it's own unique requirements so looking at existing facilities will only get you so far.
Title: Re: Solar Neutrinos
Post by: hi on February 24, 2009, 07:19:07 PM
I am perfectly capable of studying physics. That is what I do for enjoyment.

Now please, documentation....
I study physics for free time too, and I'm only in high school. And I at least get the basic concepts of the whole Solar Neutrion idea.
Title: Re: Solar Neutrinos
Post by: Johannes on February 24, 2009, 07:36:28 PM
I am perfectly capable of studying physics. That is what I do for enjoyment.

Now please, documentation....

Then you should be capable of researching the documentation yourself too.  You have been provided with a list of contractors and suppliers to get you started.  I'm sure that each facility has it's own unique requirements so looking at existing facilities will only get you so far.
Why are you blindly assuming these detectors are legit?
Title: Re: Solar Neutrinos
Post by: markjo on February 24, 2009, 07:39:33 PM
I am perfectly capable of studying physics. That is what I do for enjoyment.

Now please, documentation....

Then you should be capable of researching the documentation yourself too.  You have been provided with a list of contractors and suppliers to get you started.  I'm sure that each facility has it's own unique requirements so looking at existing facilities will only get you so far.
Why are you blindly assuming these detectors are legit?
Why are you blindly assuming that they are a DIY project?
Title: Re: Solar Neutrinos
Post by: hi on February 24, 2009, 07:44:42 PM
I am perfectly capable of studying physics. That is what I do for enjoyment.

Now please, documentation....

Then you should be capable of researching the documentation yourself too.  You have been provided with a list of contractors and suppliers to get you started.  I'm sure that each facility has it's own unique requirements so looking at existing facilities will only get you so far.
Why are you blindly assuming these detectors are legit?
Why are you blindly assuming that they are a DIY project?
Because if you can't do it yourself it's obviously fake.  ::)
Title: Re: Solar Neutrinos
Post by: markjo on February 24, 2009, 07:55:45 PM
I am perfectly capable of studying physics. That is what I do for enjoyment.

Now please, documentation....

Then you should be capable of researching the documentation yourself too.  You have been provided with a list of contractors and suppliers to get you started.  I'm sure that each facility has it's own unique requirements so looking at existing facilities will only get you so far.
Why are you blindly assuming these detectors are legit?
Why are you blindly assuming that they are a DIY project?
Because if you can't do it yourself it's obviously fake.  ::)
Then 747s must be fake too because I'll be damned if I can put one together myself, even if I did have the plans.
Title: Re: Solar Neutrinos
Post by: Johannes on February 24, 2009, 09:13:10 PM
You have probably seen 747s. I would venture a guess that you have never directly seen a Neutrino.

Also, you can find flaws in an experiment even if you do not assemble it. What if one of the formulas used in the program for finding neutrinos said the derivative of sin is tangent or did something to rig the experiment????
Title: Re: Solar Neutrinos
Post by: bowler on February 25, 2009, 01:04:38 AM
In actually finding a neutrino not a lot of maths is involved. You look for a flas in you detector and then reconstruct it. There is a fair bit of maths in the reconstruction and interpretation of results but it all gets checked many times. Though as we're getting pretty close to my day job at this point I may well be part of the conspiracy. This thread has got a little sillt in my eyes I started it to talk about science.
Title: Re: Solar Neutrinos
Post by: trig on February 25, 2009, 03:20:40 AM
I am perfectly capable of studying physics. That is what I do for enjoyment.
I am confused. Maybe you can show us some of the physics you have done? Maybe you can explain to us what is described about the detectors already in the proposed articles? Like, for example, how do the photodetectors reach the sensitivity to sense individual photons?

Or, for that matter, could you show me anything you have done that a physicist may call physics? Like the calculation of anything related to any FE model for anything? Or the verification of predictions made with any models of modern or classical physics? Or anything that you have posted in this forum that has actual formulas and numbers?

And would you explain to me what do you have against the requirements of repeatability that are so basic to physics?

Accept this challenge and show us that you are a real physicist and not just somebody that likes to read light articles about science.
Title: Re: Solar Neutrinos
Post by: C-Ray on February 25, 2009, 09:32:42 AM
I too would like to know what makes Kepler so much more qualified then the people who have devoted their lives to this work; not just the hour or two they have before The Sarah Conner Chronicles comes on.
Title: Re: Solar Neutrinos
Post by: Johannes on February 25, 2009, 09:50:40 AM
Stop distracting. You have no detailed documentation on how to detect solar neutrinos. Therefor, it is not an repeatable experiment and the data is not admissible scientific proof.
Title: Re: Solar Neutrinos
Post by: ghazwozza on February 25, 2009, 10:02:38 AM
Stop distracting. You have no detailed documentation on how to detect solar neutrinos. Therefor, it is not an repeatable experiment and the data is not admissible scientific proof.

You're right, we don't have the docummentation. So why don't you ask someone who does? We're tired of you repeatedly asking us to do your research. If you don't know how it works, go find out. Stop clogging up serious discussion boards.
Title: Re: Solar Neutrinos
Post by: bowler on February 25, 2009, 10:09:08 AM
Im not sure what else you want. You have the SNO TDR, access to the SNO results papers I have posted these links. If you read all of those sources you would have a very good grasp of modern neutrino detectors. Or go on holiday to Soudan, take a tour why not. It is a repeatable experiment SNO and Superkamiokande have consistent result from the older experiments. I know from personal experience SuperK is very real.
Title: Re: Solar Neutrinos
Post by: C-Ray on February 25, 2009, 11:05:27 AM
More Solar Neutrino experiments.
http://lens.in2p3.fr/nu_exp.html (http://lens.in2p3.fr/nu_exp.html)

The information is there for you to find.  I can't read it to you.
Title: Re: Solar Neutrinos
Post by: trig on February 25, 2009, 02:52:03 PM
Im not sure what else you want. You have the SNO TDR, access to the SNO results papers I have posted these links. If you read all of those sources you would have a very good grasp of modern neutrino detectors. Or go on holiday to Soudan, take a tour why not. It is a repeatable experiment SNO and Superkamiokande have consistent result from the older experiments. I know from personal experience SuperK is very real.
He is fishing for reasons why his failure can be shown as something different. Of course, he has to call "not repeatable" an experiment that is not "DIY". We have to say it clearly: even with the spare parts and the resources, Kepler would not know where to begin constructing this observatory because he is only a high-school-grade physics student that has learned many physics terms but no physics knowledge.
Title: Re: Solar Neutrinos
Post by: Johannes on February 25, 2009, 07:58:35 PM
Thats a load of ****....

but isn't anyone supposed to be able to participate in the scientific community? You certainly wouldn't be afraid of posting documentation if you know it worked right?

This experiment is not repeatable because it there is no procedure to build the instrumentation. This is not science.
Title: Re: Solar Neutrinos
Post by: hi on February 25, 2009, 07:59:55 PM
Thats a load of ****....

but isn't anyone supposed to be able to participate in the scientific community? You certainly wouldn't be afraid of posting documentation if you know it worked right?
Wow... angry much? Just calm down and we'll get back to you.
Title: Re: Solar Neutrinos
Post by: markjo on February 25, 2009, 08:04:33 PM
Thats a load of ****....

but isn't anyone supposed to be able to participate in the scientific community? You certainly wouldn't be afraid of posting documentation if you know it worked right?

This experiment is not repeatable because it there is no procedure to build the instrumentation. This is not science.

???
Title: Re: Solar Neutrinos
Post by: C-Ray on February 25, 2009, 08:11:33 PM
Are you reading the thread?  I know I have made two posts about current experiments under way.  One of the links I provided links to at least 4 other websites using the same techniques.  The information has been given to you.  Start researching, start building.
Title: Re: Solar Neutrinos
Post by: Johannes on February 25, 2009, 08:30:36 PM
Are you reading the thread?  I know I have made two posts about current experiments under way.  One of the links I provided links to at least 4 other websites using the same techniques.  The information has been given to you.  Start researching, start building.
Thats not detailed enough.
Title: Re: Solar Neutrinos
Post by: hi on February 25, 2009, 08:34:29 PM
Are you reading the thread?  I know I have made two posts about current experiments under way.  One of the links I provided links to at least 4 other websites using the same techniques.  The information has been given to you.  Start researching, start building.
Thats not detailed enough.
What do you want?
Title: Re: Solar Neutrinos
Post by: Johannes on February 25, 2009, 08:38:07 PM
Are you reading the thread?  I know I have made two posts about current experiments under way.  One of the links I provided links to at least 4 other websites using the same techniques.  The information has been given to you.  Start researching, start building.
Thats not detailed enough.
What do you want?
source code, exact schematics, designs etc.
Title: Re: Solar Neutrinos
Post by: C-Ray on February 25, 2009, 08:42:55 PM
Are you reading the thread?  I know I have made two posts about current experiments under way.  One of the links I provided links to at least 4 other websites using the same techniques.  The information has been given to you.  Start researching, start building.
Thats not detailed enough.
What do you want?
source code, exact schematics, designs etc.

What are you gonna do with those?  I'm curious to know what it exactly you do.  Are you in school studying or are you out of school and actually have a career?  If you have a career, what is it?  If you are in school, what are you studying?
Title: Re: Solar Neutrinos
Post by: Johannes on February 25, 2009, 08:59:56 PM
If you want to discuss who I am please make a new topic.
Title: Re: Solar Neutrinos
Post by: bowler on February 26, 2009, 01:23:42 AM
Most of the software is done with large software packages these days so each experiments doesn't have to reinvent the wheel.
Simulation is normally done with GEANT - http://geant4.cern.ch
Data analysis with ROOT - http://root.cern.ch
Both these packages are open source and written and c++.

Often each analysis is implemented more than once is different ways to cross check for difference caused by different methodologies. Though a solid book on data analysis in high energy physics will take you through the steps used in a generic analysis.
Title: Re: Solar Neutrinos
Post by: markjo on February 26, 2009, 06:45:48 AM
If you want to discuss who I am please make a new topic.

So your qualifications to build and run a DIY neutrino detector are not relevant to the discussion?  ???
Title: Re: Solar Neutrinos
Post by: C-Ray on February 26, 2009, 07:03:00 AM
If you want to discuss who I am please make a new topic.

So your qualifications to build and run a DIY neutrino detector are not relevant to the discussion?  ???

My thoughts exactly.
Title: Re: Solar Neutrinos
Post by: markjo on February 26, 2009, 10:10:36 AM
If you want to discuss who I am please make a new topic.

So your qualifications to build and run a DIY neutrino detector are not relevant to the discussion?  ???

My thoughts exactly.

Not to mention being able to finance such a project.  And no, Johannes, I will not chip in so don't even ask.
Title: Re: Solar Neutrinos
Post by: Johannes on February 26, 2009, 01:32:38 PM
Most of the software is done with large software packages these days so each experiments doesn't have to reinvent the wheel.
Simulation is normally done with GEANT - http://geant4.cern.ch
Data analysis with ROOT - http://root.cern.ch
Both these packages are open source and written and c++.

Often each analysis is implemented more than once is different ways to cross check for difference caused by different methodologies. Though a solid book on data analysis in high energy physics will take you through the steps used in a generic analysis.
GEANT is a toolkit for the simulation of high energy physics
ROOT is a framework.

Neither of these are specifically what is being used in the code of neutrino detectors. More proof please.
Title: Re: Solar Neutrinos
Post by: bowler on February 27, 2009, 02:00:13 AM
Well you read the tagline well done. If you don't know ROOT inside out then anything else is going to be incomprehensible as analyses are build on ROOT.
Title: Re: Solar Neutrinos
Post by: NTheGreat on February 27, 2009, 06:16:18 AM
The code use to translate what is recived from the detectors into something that can be analysed is probably very bespoke and varies from detector to detector. If you want to see it, you'll have to contact the people who run the detector and ask them about it.
Title: Re: Solar Neutrinos
Post by: Johannes on February 27, 2009, 09:25:15 AM
Well you read the tagline well done. If you don't know ROOT inside out then anything else is going to be incomprehensible as analyses are build on ROOT.
You are obviously not a C++ programmer.
Title: Re: Solar Neutrinos
Post by: bowler on February 27, 2009, 09:28:26 AM
I wouldn't say im a programmer though I spend a lot of time time writing scientific c++ code. Most of it using ROOT.
Title: Re: Solar Neutrinos
Post by: markjo on February 27, 2009, 12:14:28 PM
Well you read the tagline well done. If you don't know ROOT inside out then anything else is going to be incomprehensible as analyses are build on ROOT.
You are obviously not a C++ programmer.
Knowing a language is not the same as understanding the problem that you are trying to solve with that language.  Just because you know how to swing a hammer doesn't mean that you know how to build a house.
Title: Re: Solar Neutrinos
Post by: Johannes on February 27, 2009, 03:29:40 PM
Well you read the tagline well done. If you don't know ROOT inside out then anything else is going to be incomprehensible as analyses are build on ROOT.
You are obviously not a C++ programmer.
Knowing a language is not the same as understanding the problem that you are trying to solve with that language.  Just because you know how to swing a hammer doesn't mean that you know how to build a house.
If you know how to program you can understand what the code is doing. Especially in C++ where lots of things are inherited and you can get to the "core" of the program pretty quickly by looking at the classes. Not to mention I have significant physics background. Which cannot hurt.
Title: Re: Solar Neutrinos
Post by: ghazwozza on February 27, 2009, 04:38:54 PM
I've forgotten what the point of this argument was. Did JK not trust neutrino observatory results? Did he actually claim that thousands of scientists, each group with a different experiment, were all being fooled by some unknown process into wrong data that just happened to be consistent with everyone else's wrong data? Because that seems pretty ridiculous.

JK: what evidence have you got that neutrino results are suspect? Because scientists (you know, the people who know stuff) seem to think they're pretty reliable.

Can any FE'ers explain the nutrinos detected at night, or the neutrino beam that passed through the Earth?
Title: Re: Solar Neutrinos
Post by: Johannes on February 27, 2009, 05:10:02 PM
My argument is that since the instrumentation used to obtain the neutrino data is not open (no documentation, schematics, instructions on how to build, no source code) it is not scientific. Therefore it is not proof of anything. For all I know the instrumentation is rigged.
Title: Re: Solar Neutrinos
Post by: zork on February 28, 2009, 02:27:18 AM
 No, this is not your argument. Your argument is that because you don't know a thing about neutrinos and how to detect them you just bitch here. If you want to know something the go and study and get in to some of these laboratories. In your logic there is no way the atomic or hydrogen bomb works because their schematics and building instructions aren't also available.
Title: Re: Solar Neutrinos
Post by: svenanders on February 28, 2009, 04:23:13 AM
Yes. This is how Johannes Kepler works. If he can't see at thing it doesn't exist.
So I guess all that money spent on LHC goes right in someones pockets. And the test proton beam
they say they sent, was just a bad Commodore 64 game. Am I right?
Title: Re: Solar Neutrinos
Post by: bowler on March 02, 2009, 05:03:10 AM
Well at this point im implicitly a member of the conspiracy so I'm happy. I've never been called a member of a dark conspiracy and I have to say it gives me a warm fuzzy feeling.
Title: Re: Solar Neutrinos
Post by: svenanders on March 02, 2009, 06:18:09 AM
Well at this point im implicitly a member of the conspiracy so I'm happy. I've never been called a member of a dark conspiracy and I have to say it gives me a warm fuzzy feeling.

In your behind?
Title: Re: Solar Neutrinos
Post by: bowler on March 02, 2009, 07:31:02 AM
All over really I just like the idea of wearing a black suit and sunglasses and meeting in a long lost temple buried deep underground. Maybe I just yearn to be popular.
Title: Re: Solar Neutrinos
Post by: Lord Wilmore on March 02, 2009, 11:06:27 AM
No, this is not your argument. Your argument is that because you don't know a thing about neutrinos and how to detect them you just bitch here. If you want to know something the go and study and get in to some of these laboratories. In your logic there is no way the atomic or hydrogen bomb works because their schematics and building instructions aren't also available.

That's a ridiculous analogy. The results of Hiroshima and Nagasaki were witnessed first hand by an awful lot of people, many of whom were walking evidence themselves. You're comparing chalk and cheese because they are occasionally the same colour.
Title: Re: Solar Neutrinos
Post by: zork on March 02, 2009, 11:11:42 AM
No, this is not your argument. Your argument is that because you don't know a thing about neutrinos and how to detect them you just bitch here. If you want to know something the go and study and get in to some of these laboratories. In your logic there is no way the atomic or hydrogen bomb works because their schematics and building instructions aren't also available.

That's a ridiculous analogy. The results of Hiroshima and Nagasaki were witnessed first hand by an awful lot of people, many of whom were walking evidence themselves. You're comparing chalk and cheese because they are occasionally the same colour.
Who care's about first hand witnesses. Bowler here has first hand experience with neutrinos(in my understanding) but who cares about it. And so are many other things here. You must ask Kepler, why is it so that if you can't get schematics and all other stuff then it's not working. If it goes for neutrino detectors so it goes for atomic or hydrogen bomb.
Title: Re: Solar Neutrinos
Post by: Lord Wilmore on March 02, 2009, 11:30:30 AM
Uh, no it doesn't. Atomic weapons have been used in anger twice and tested thousands of times. More importantly, the result of those tests is to all intensive purposes undeniable.
Title: Re: Solar Neutrinos
Post by: markjo on March 02, 2009, 11:53:45 AM
Uh, no it doesn't. Atomic weapons have been used in anger twice and tested thousands of times. More importantly, the result of those tests is to all intensive for all intents and purposes undeniable.

*sigh*

There is a 20 something page thread in AS that wants to deny those tests.
http://theflatearthsociety.org/forum/index.php?topic=11293.0
Title: Re: Solar Neutrinos
Post by: Lord Wilmore on March 02, 2009, 11:54:52 AM
In a world where people deny that the earth is flat, nothing surprises me.
Title: Re: Solar Neutrinos
Post by: zork on March 02, 2009, 12:34:37 PM
Uh, no it doesn't. Atomic weapons have been used in anger twice and tested thousands of times. More importantly, the result of those tests is to all intensive purposes undeniable.
  Do you have data? Have you build one itself? don't you know that there is conspiracy which fakes all data and makes lot of money with supposedly working atomic bombs? And so on with exact arguments like FE has. I quite don't get it, why do you take at face value all stories about atomic bombs when you haven't seen one itself in action.
Title: Re: Solar Neutrinos
Post by: bowler on March 02, 2009, 12:50:10 PM
If they physically didn't exist then a huge number of people would have to be in on it by the time scientists, engineers, contractors, funding agencies, builders, visiting school children and dignitaries. In teh case of SNO they also had to build somewhere to hide all the heavy water they borrowed. Proving the data isn't rigged I suppose is more difficult as only the scientists would have to be in on it. Though its worth noting that for 40 years the experiments didn't give the result we expected and in the late 1990's led to the discovery of neutrino oscillations. Presumably if the data was rigged then we would have rigged it to what we thought the answer would be. This agrees with the other main class of neutrino experiment which study neutrinos from nuclear reactors.
Title: Re: Solar Neutrinos
Post by: Johannes on March 02, 2009, 12:51:41 PM
The fact is, no one has offered a way to reconstruct the experiments, so there is no evidence to support the solar neutrinos.
Title: Re: Solar Neutrinos
Post by: zork on March 02, 2009, 12:53:06 PM
We know, also no one has offered atomic bombs plan so there is no evidence to support atomic bombs.
Title: Re: Solar Neutrinos
Post by: Dr Matrix on March 02, 2009, 01:03:59 PM
I'd say the evidence for atomic bombs is a bit more tangible than that for neutrinos... just buy a cheap Geiger counter and go on a tour of Japan...
Title: Re: Solar Neutrinos
Post by: bowler on March 02, 2009, 01:06:38 PM
I put a simple DIY solar neutrino detector up a couple of pages ago. It would work, you would not have tracking or powerful calorimetry like a modern detector. But it should by constructible by someone with a solid technical mind. Probably be done for only a few thousand dollars I guess, though I guess some of the metal work may have to be professionally manufactured.

The solar neutrino experiments have been repeated over and over for the past 40 years. Though there are only 2 of the latest generation of detector. A third is currently under construction in India, or it will be soon I can't remember what their status is. I know of at least 1 more in the pipeline. The gargantuan neutrino factory will be under construction in a few years. This is designed to fire neutrinos through the Earth. Better evidence I would say than solar neutrinos. But its detectors will be large enough to study solar neutrinos in principle but with the energy difference between solar and man made neutrinos their kit may not be sensitive,

On the whole nuclear thing every fission reactor is kicking out neutrinos by the gazillion we can only understand their power output if neutrinos exist.
Title: Re: Solar Neutrinos
Post by: zork on March 02, 2009, 01:19:32 PM
I'd say the evidence for atomic bombs is a bit more tangible than that for neutrinos... just buy a cheap Geiger counter and go on a tour of Japan...
Do you have any proof that Geiger counters aren't tampered with? If there is conspiracy then all Geiger counter makers are in it. And maybe someone dumped some nuclear waste in japan... But let's drop the BS because if we go FE argument way we can make all things what we ever want impossible.
Title: Re: Solar Neutrinos
Post by: Dr Matrix on March 02, 2009, 01:23:54 PM
I'd say the evidence for atomic bombs is a bit more tangible than that for neutrinos... just buy a cheap Geiger counter and go on a tour of Japan...
Do you have any proof that Geiger counters aren't tampered with? If there is conspiracy then all Geiger counter makers are in it. And maybe someone dumped some nuclear waste in japan... But let's drop the BS because if we go FE argument way we can make all things what we ever want impossible.

You can build your own fairly decent Geiger counter for a couple of hundred quid if you really want to, and for a bit more outlay you could do some radionuclide tests to see that all around the world there is A- and H-bomb residue, not just fission waste from a reactor...

...however, I do take your point that FET can seem like a bit of a stretch.  Sometimes.
Title: Re: Solar Neutrinos
Post by: bowler on March 02, 2009, 01:28:34 PM
Just out of curiosity, when does FE theory not seem like a stretch? I mean if I look around me when im in a field I could believe the world is flat. In the same way I could believe that the moon is made of a small lump of cheese just above head height that follows me around. Everybode else has a similar lump of cheese that follows them around but only they can see it. Thats possibly the tastiest theory ever conceived.
Title: Re: Solar Neutrinos
Post by: Dr Matrix on March 02, 2009, 01:34:53 PM
Just out of curiosity, when does FE theory not seem like a stretch? I mean if I look around me when im in a field I could believe the world is flat. In the same way I could believe that the moon is made of a small lump of cheese just above head height that follows me around. Everybode else has a similar lump of cheese that follows them around but only they can see it. Thats possibly the tastiest theory ever conceived.

... and also the most cruel... all that cheese, just out of reach  :'(
Title: Re: Solar Neutrinos
Post by: bowler on March 02, 2009, 01:59:10 PM
Its a whole other level of hell. For those who are blind yet can see.
Title: Re: Solar Neutrinos
Post by: Dr Matrix on March 02, 2009, 02:22:17 PM
That's where all the RE'ers go.  You have been warned.
Title: Re: Solar Neutrinos
Post by: bowler on March 02, 2009, 02:42:00 PM
I like cheese.
Title: Re: Solar Neutrinos
Post by: Scl0182 on March 02, 2009, 03:05:39 PM
I appreciate that not everyone is a physicist (that much is pretty evident). From through going cosmic neutrinos we know that there must be an atmosphere on the otherside of the 'disc' to convert cosmic rays to cosmic muons.

Yes, it is quite evident that your yourself are not a Physicist.

If y'all (Flat Earth Conspiracy Theorists and Round Earth'ers both) would spend as much time as you waste on these fruitless debates of utter ignorance on something more productive (such as volunteer work, time with family, or possibly some education) then this world, regardless of geometrical shape, would be a much better place.

In your logic there is no way the atomic or hydrogen bomb works because their schematics and building instructions aren't also available.

Actually, out-dated Uranium and Plutonium core A-Bomb schematics are quite easy to find if you have the conviction to learn about them and their functions. Of course, modern A-Bombs are highly classified.
Title: Re: Solar Neutrinos
Post by: bowler on March 02, 2009, 03:14:05 PM
I'm almost offended. I assume you have a problem with the bit in bold? Cosmic rays, this is popular terminology for high energy particles, mostly protons, from deep space. These collide with atoms in the upper atmosphere which create large showers cascading down towards the Earths surface. The muons from this shower, decay into muon neutrinos, electrons and anti-electron neutrinos. The electrons are quickly captured but the neutrinos pass through the Earth and some are detected on the other side. At least thats what I predict a physicist would say.
Title: Re: Solar Neutrinos
Post by: Lord Wilmore on March 02, 2009, 03:15:49 PM
If y'all (Flat Earth Conspiracy Theorists and Round Earth'ers both) would spend as much time as you waste on these fruitless debates of utter ignorance on something more productive (such as volunteer work, time with family, or possibly some education) then this world, regardless of geometrical shape, would be a much better place.

At the very least, this site has philosophical value, and I am willing to bet that many people here (RE'ers included) would testify that this forum has opened their minds in a way that possibly nothing else could. If you want my opinion, this site is already making the world a better place by expanding people's horizons (if you'll excuse the double entendre). For many, it's not about the destination, but the journey.
Title: Re: Solar Neutrinos
Post by: Scl0182 on March 02, 2009, 03:20:57 PM
At the very least, this site has philosophical value, and I am willing to bet that many people here (RE'ers included) would testify that this forum has opened their minds in a way that possibly nothing else could. If you want my opinion, this site is already making the world a better place by expanding people's horizons (if you'll excuse the double entendre). For many, it's not about the destination, but the journey.

That would be true if there was actual knowledge being exchanged here, as opposed to the transfer of ignorance from one person to the next.

Philosophy is the love of knowledge and the pursuit thereof. If you are pursuing something already sought and found you  wasting yours and others time.
Title: Re: Solar Neutrinos
Post by: Johannes on March 02, 2009, 03:22:58 PM
I put a simple DIY solar neutrino detector up a couple of pages ago. It would work, you would not have tracking or powerful calorimetry like a modern detector. But it should by constructible by someone with a solid technical mind. Probably be done for only a few thousand dollars I guess, though I guess some of the metal work may have to be professionally manufactured.

The solar neutrino experiments have been repeated over and over for the past 40 years. Though there are only 2 of the latest generation of detector. A third is currently under construction in India, or it will be soon I can't remember what their status is. I know of at least 1 more in the pipeline. The gargantuan neutrino factory will be under construction in a few years. This is designed to fire neutrinos through the Earth. Better evidence I would say than solar neutrinos. But its detectors will be large enough to study solar neutrinos in principle but with the energy difference between solar and man made neutrinos their kit may not be sensitive,

On the whole nuclear thing every fission reactor is kicking out neutrinos by the gazillion we can only understand their power output if neutrinos exist.
Please repost these plans.
Title: Re: Solar Neutrinos
Post by: bowler on March 02, 2009, 03:34:59 PM
My problem with this forum has just been well demonstrated. As a fraction of my posts I spend most trying to defend the existence of neutrino detectors of the reliability of the data. School children go to visit them. The data is harder to verify but a number of experiments have been performed over the years and as I say the early ones didn't give the 'right' answer. So its not really about science its about conspiracy. If I searched this site for Popper or Kuhn I doubt I'd get many hits. At least at Roswell something crashed, the conspiracy is based around an event, with FE theory im still not sure what the metaphorical crash is that RE people are trying to explain away.
Title: Re: Solar Neutrinos
Post by: bowler on March 02, 2009, 03:39:22 PM
DIY neutrino detector instructions:
1) Fill a large container with salt water Cadmium Chloride is best as cadmium is a large atom but I think any salt will work just the event rate will be lower. Though of course the sensitivity to different energies of neutrino will change.
2) Set up scintillator paddles around the outside of the tank.
3) Look for coincidence of the two gamma rays produced by a neutrino interaction  followed by a neutron decay after a short gap.

There are lots of variations on a theme and one would want to tailor their exact experiments around whether they wanted to look for solar neutrinos or ones produced by man made activity. But with appropriate modification the procedure above will find low energy neutrinos. The key is the electronics to look for the tell tale gammas followed by neutron. You would of course have to do a background study to quantify your systematic errors. None of this is new Reines and Cowan did pretty much this. There is no good reason that a clever person with some money could not reproduce this experiment if they wished. The rest of teh world is happy with the big modern machines capable of precision measurements but if you would rather make you own there you go. I must admit I kind of admire the idea i've often wished I had the motivation to try and recreate great old experiments.
Title: Re: Solar Neutrinos
Post by: Scl0182 on March 02, 2009, 03:45:43 PM
I'm almost offended. I assume you have a problem with the bit in bold? Cosmic rays, this is popular terminology for high energy particles, mostly protons, from deep space. These collide with atoms in the upper atmosphere which create large showers cascading down towards the Earths surface. The muons from this shower, decay into muon neutrinos, electrons and anti-electron neutrinos.

Yes the bit in bold is completely wrong and misguided. Cosmic muons? Did you not go to the Quantum Physics lectures or have you just never even taken a basic Modern Physics course ever?
Title: Re: Solar Neutrinos
Post by: Lord Wilmore on March 02, 2009, 03:50:05 PM
That would be true if there was actual knowledge being exchanged here, as opposed to the transfer of ignorance from one person to the next.

Philosophy is the love of knowledge and the pursuit thereof. If you are pursuing something already sought and found you  wasting yours and others time.

Am I wasting my time if I have not found said knowledge? Am I wasting my time if the person I'm talking to hasn't?
Title: Re: Solar Neutrinos
Post by: bowler on March 02, 2009, 03:50:35 PM
I looked in my thesis. The anti-electron neutrino is a fermion. The existance of which has been verifed by direct observation from nuclear reactors. It is a product of nuclear fission with an energy of order 10MeV.
Title: Re: Solar Neutrinos
Post by: Scl0182 on March 02, 2009, 03:54:57 PM
I looked in my thesis. The anti-electron neutrino is a fermion. The existance of which has been verifed by direct observation from nuclear reactors. It is a product of nuclear fission with an energy of order 10MeV.

The "anti-neutrino" is not a true anti-particle in the sense of the other anti-particles. It is identical to the regular neutrino in every way except spin, whereas a normal anti-particle is opposite of charge
Title: Re: Solar Neutrinos
Post by: bowler on March 02, 2009, 04:05:52 PM
Kinda, the picture is not quite that straight forward. It is true that the neutrino is neutral. As a consequence of V-A structure of the weak interaction only right handed anti-neutrinos are produced and only left-handed anti-neutrinos are produced. It is possible that the other components do not exists because there is no mechanism by which they can be created. It is also possible, since the discovery that the neutrino has mass, that the neutrino is a majorana particle that is the particle is also the anti-particle. At that point it gets a bit more philosophical about the difrerence between the two as a majorana particle has only a two component spinor.
Title: Re: Solar Neutrinos
Post by: MotherNature on March 03, 2009, 01:10:10 PM

I like this thread there's some very good physics in here that's correct :)

I must admit I don't know the ins and outs of particle physics because it's not my specialist area but from what I've read it seems correct.

One thing I don't thinks been discussed is the fact that published experimental results arn't just done once they are verified independantly of one another.

If a scientist says, Eureaka I've detected a neutrino, another scientist says: really I shall do my own experiment to verify it and make sure the results are what they say they are.

When you ask for the detail of an experimental apparatus you should really ask what other experiments have been done to verify it. Because each experiment may have been done on an apparatus that is designed differently.
Title: Re: Solar Neutrinos
Post by: Dr Matrix on March 03, 2009, 01:55:36 PM
Actually, out-dated Uranium and Plutonium core A-Bomb schematics are quite easy to find if you have the conviction to learn about them and their functions. Of course, modern A-Bombs are highly classified.

Actually, they're not.  All bomb designs, 'outdated' or not are still highly classified under the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty.  If you think you've got a 'real' bomb schematic, I can virtually guarantee that you haven't (unless you're a spy or work for the government, or both).
Title: Re: Solar Neutrinos
Post by: C-Ray on March 03, 2009, 02:01:37 PM

I like this thread there's some very good physics in here that's correct :)

I must admit I don't know the ins and outs of particle physics because it's not my specialist area but from what I've read it seems correct.

One thing I don't thinks been discussed is the fact that published experimental results arn't just done once they are verified independantly of one another.

If a scientist says, Eureaka I've detected a neutrino, another scientist says: really I shall do my own experiment to verify it and make sure the results are what they say they are.

When you ask for the detail of an experimental apparatus you should really ask what other experiments have been done to verify it. Because each experiment may have been done on an apparatus that is designed differently.

Yeah but unless you are Johannes Kepler of the FES boards performing the experiment, it can't be accepted as a success among the scientific community.

He has yet to tell us what his qualifications are to judge such experiments though.
Title: Re: Solar Neutrinos
Post by: MotherNature on March 03, 2009, 03:45:46 PM
Actually, out-dated Uranium and Plutonium core A-Bomb schematics are quite easy to find if you have the conviction to learn about them and their functions. Of course, modern A-Bombs are highly classified.

Actually, they're not.  All bomb designs, 'outdated' or not are still highly classified under the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty.  If you think you've got a 'real' bomb schematic, I can virtually guarantee that you haven't (unless you're a spy or work for the government, or both).

Actually you can get a great deal of info over the net.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nuclear_weapon

Although there will be fundamental parrameters and new designs which won't be on there.
Title: Re: Solar Neutrinos
Post by: markjo on March 03, 2009, 06:54:54 PM
Actually, out-dated Uranium and Plutonium core A-Bomb schematics are quite easy to find if you have the conviction to learn about them and their functions. Of course, modern A-Bombs are highly classified.

Actually, they're not.  All bomb designs, 'outdated' or not are still highly classified under the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty.  If you think you've got a 'real' bomb schematic, I can virtually guarantee that you haven't (unless you're a spy or work for the government, or both).

Actually you can get a great deal of info over the net.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nuclear_weapon

Although there will be fundamental parrameters and new designs which won't be on there.

Functional block diagrams are hardly schematics.
Title: Re: Solar Neutrinos
Post by: Johannes on March 03, 2009, 09:47:18 PM
If me and Tom Bishop announce that we have discovered a new sub atomic particle independently of each other but we don't post plans why should you believe us?
Title: Re: Solar Neutrinos
Post by: Dr Matrix on March 04, 2009, 12:16:12 AM
If me and Tom Bishop announce that we have discovered a new sub atomic particle independently of each other but we don't post plans why should you believe us?

Touche!
Title: Re: Solar Neutrinos
Post by: bowler on March 04, 2009, 02:18:31 AM
Well the results would be more useful that the plans. If you build an identical experiment then you render yourself sensitive to a systematic flaw in the design. If you think you have a signal for a new particle then publish. Einstein published special relativity at the same time he finished his PhD while working as a patent clerk. Theres nothing that says you have to be a tenured academic. Though solar neutrinos have been detected by a number of experiments in the last 40 years with thousands of people having worked on it by now; after the LHC its the next largest area of particle physics.

Though you are not without a point; the size, cost and associated infrastructure required for particle physics makes confirming discoveries hard. There are unverified claims at the moment simply because no one has s second experiment to verify it. This is a problem with big science, its why the LHC has 2 detectors out to do almost exactly the same task, as no one is planning on building a second LHC any time soon. Though it is now 53 years since the discovery of the neutrino and 40ish since the discovery of the solar neutrino.
Title: Re: Solar Neutrinos
Post by: MotherNature on March 04, 2009, 02:52:13 AM
If me and Tom Bishop announce that we have discovered a new sub atomic particle independently of each other but we don't post plans why should you believe us?

Ok well tell us what problems do you have with the experiment, which parts of the experiment do you want to know?

Title: Re: Solar Neutrinos
Post by: MotherNature on March 04, 2009, 03:05:44 AM
Actually, out-dated Uranium and Plutonium core A-Bomb schematics are quite easy to find if you have the conviction to learn about them and their functions. Of course, modern A-Bombs are highly classified.

Actually, they're not.  All bomb designs, 'outdated' or not are still highly classified under the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty.  If you think you've got a 'real' bomb schematic, I can virtually guarantee that you haven't (unless you're a spy or work for the government, or both).

Actually you can get a great deal of info over the net.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nuclear_weapon

Although there will be fundamental parrameters and new designs which won't be on there.

Functional block diagrams are hardly schematics.

Yes I know that, I was only trying to point out that you can get a surprising amount of info about nuclear weapons on the net.
Title: Re: Solar Neutrinos
Post by: ghazwozza on March 04, 2009, 08:07:11 AM
If me and Tom Bishop announce that we have discovered a new sub atomic particle independently of each other but we don't post plans why should you believe us?

No, of course not. But even if you did post the plans, I still wouldn't believe you. In fact, I wouldn't believe you until you published a research paper in a peer-reviewed journal.

This is exactly what the discoverers of the neutrino did! Look up "Detection of the Free Neutrino: a Confirmation" by Clyde Cowan, Frederick Reines, F. B. Harrison, H. W. Kruse, and A. D. McGuire, Science, 1956; a paper that won them the 1995 Nobel prize.

Here is a link to the article, but you have to pay. (http://www.sciencemag.org/cgi/content/citation/124/3212/103) As you can see, it has been cited numerous times, which is a good indicator that it is a quality paper.
Title: Re: Solar Neutrinos
Post by: markjo on March 04, 2009, 02:21:38 PM
If me and Tom Bishop announce that we have discovered a new sub atomic particle independently of each other but we don't post plans why should you believe us?

You don't post the plans for the equipment that you used.  You post the techniques and types of equipment that you used to discover your particle along with the particle's properties that you observed.  Then other researchers will attempt to reproduce your results with equipment that may or may not be exactly the same as the equipment that you originally used.  They may use newer and/or better equipment in an attempt to get better and more consistent observations.
Title: Re: Solar Neutrinos
Post by: Johannes on March 04, 2009, 02:26:19 PM
I have yet to see plans for the experiments/equipment from you guys. It doesn't seem peer reviewed to me. As peers who have no money are unable to review it.
Title: Re: Solar Neutrinos
Post by: bowler on March 04, 2009, 02:38:23 PM
The thing is we have. Admittedly the old experiments are harder to come by because they are only in paper publications so access to a library is required. An account at a university is enough these days, though I guess your probably stymied there as well. Modern experiments SNO and Super-kamiokande post results on the arXiv document server and are available for free as the the technical design reports. We have posted them you have chosen not to read them, which I have say is a bit ridiculous/pathetic.
Title: Re: Solar Neutrinos
Post by: C-Ray on March 04, 2009, 02:41:19 PM
I think he wants us to post detailed schematics of the machine used to detect these neutrinos.  Even though that is not at all how it is done in the scientific community as Markjo just stated.
Title: Re: Solar Neutrinos
Post by: MotherNature on March 04, 2009, 02:50:12 PM
I have yet to see plans for the experiments/equipment from you guys. It doesn't seem peer reviewed to me. As peers who have no money are unable to review it.

I would like to know what problems you have with the experiment so we could possible give you the references and details that will be most relavent.

Simply asking for the schematics of something is not likely to answer the problems you have with the experiment.

I don't think you understand how experimental apparatus are put together. The experiment is going to have an oscilloscope attached to it somewhere. Do you want the details of how an oscilloscope works?

You need to be more specific in relation to the problems you have with the experiment.
Title: Re: Solar Neutrinos
Post by: Johannes on March 04, 2009, 02:53:48 PM
I have yet to see plans for the experiments/equipment from you guys. It doesn't seem peer reviewed to me. As peers who have no money are unable to review it.

I would like to know what problems you have with the experiment so we could possible give you the references and details that will be most relavent.

Simply asking for the schematics of something is not likely to answer the problems you have with the experiment.

I don't think you understand how experimental apparatus are put together. The experiment is going to have an oscilloscope attached to it somewhere. Do you want the details of how an oscilloscope works?

You need to be more specific in relation to the problems you have with the experiment.

What source is the oscilloscope reading?
Title: Re: Solar Neutrinos
Post by: MotherNature on March 04, 2009, 02:56:39 PM
I have yet to see plans for the experiments/equipment from you guys. It doesn't seem peer reviewed to me. As peers who have no money are unable to review it.

I would like to know what problems you have with the experiment so we could possible give you the references and details that will be most relavent.

Simply asking for the schematics of something is not likely to answer the problems you have with the experiment.

I don't think you understand how experimental apparatus are put together. The experiment is going to have an oscilloscope attached to it somewhere. Do you want the details of how an oscilloscope works?

You need to be more specific in relation to the problems you have with the experiment.

What source is the oscilloscope reading?

So you would like to know how the experimental apparatus detects the neutrino?
Title: Re: Solar Neutrinos
Post by: bowler on March 04, 2009, 03:04:32 PM
Seriously this is all in the TDR that was linked. Its a pdf and i can't cut copy paste, but needless to say no ones used an oscilloscope since before disco died. SuperK has over 11'000 output channels, thats a lot of oscilloscopes.
Title: Re: Solar Neutrinos
Post by: MotherNature on March 04, 2009, 03:09:57 PM
Seriously this is all in the TDR that was linked. Its a pdf and i can't cut copy paste, but needless to say no ones used an oscilloscope since before disco died. SuperK has over 11'000 output channels, thats a lot of oscilloscopes.

Yeah know I was using it as an example most experiments use a data capture card connected to a PC :)

I was just trying to ascertain which part of the experiment they have a problem with.
Title: Re: Solar Neutrinos
Post by: Dr Matrix on March 04, 2009, 03:16:09 PM
Seriously this is all in the TDR that was linked. Its a pdf and i can't cut copy paste, but needless to say no ones used an oscilloscope since before disco died. SuperK has over 11'000 output channels, thats a lot of oscilloscopes.

I still use scopes  :-\
Title: Re: Solar Neutrinos
Post by: bowler on March 04, 2009, 03:20:32 PM
Yeah I had a go but it caused me to have a fit.

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Title: Re: Solar Neutrinos
Post by: Johannes on March 04, 2009, 04:41:46 PM
I have yet to see plans for the experiments/equipment from you guys. It doesn't seem peer reviewed to me. As peers who have no money are unable to review it.

I would like to know what problems you have with the experiment so we could possible give you the references and details that will be most relavent.

Simply asking for the schematics of something is not likely to answer the problems you have with the experiment.

I don't think you understand how experimental apparatus are put together. The experiment is going to have an oscilloscope attached to it somewhere. Do you want the details of how an oscilloscope works?

You need to be more specific in relation to the problems you have with the experiment.

What source is the oscilloscope reading?

So you would like to know how the experimental apparatus detects the neutrino?
That is the essence of my argument. I would like to know how to build such instrumentation.

What does the acronym TDR stand for?
Title: Re: Solar Neutrinos
Post by: MotherNature on March 04, 2009, 05:16:28 PM
I have yet to see plans for the experiments/equipment from you guys. It doesn't seem peer reviewed to me. As peers who have no money are unable to review it.

I would like to know what problems you have with the experiment so we could possible give you the references and details that will be most relavent.

Simply asking for the schematics of something is not likely to answer the problems you have with the experiment.

I don't think you understand how experimental apparatus are put together. The experiment is going to have an oscilloscope attached to it somewhere. Do you want the details of how an oscilloscope works?

You need to be more specific in relation to the problems you have with the experiment.

What source is the oscilloscope reading?

So you would like to know how the experimental apparatus detects the neutrino?
That is the essence of my argument. I would like to know how to build such instrumentation.

What does the acronym TDR stand for?

Knowing how to build the experiment and how the experiment works are two different questions.

If you want to build the experiment then a knowledge of both is required.

If you want to use the experiment for research and to verify results then a knowledge of how it works is required.

TDR, I assume stands for Technical Design Report.

The following reference gives you the concept behind the detectors used in the experiments.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Neutrino_detector

http://underground.cityofember.com/2008/07/japans-superkamiokande.html

http://icecube.wisc.edu/science/publications/pdd/pdd.pdf  (this is a design document for a neutrino detector)
Title: Re: Solar Neutrinos
Post by: markjo on March 04, 2009, 07:25:42 PM
As peers who have no money are unable to review it.

If you don't have the money, how do you expect to build the equipment?  ???  These detector projects take tens of millions of dollars to built and operate.  How is this a DIY project again?  And what qualifications do you have that make you a peer that could review the findings in the first place?
Title: Re: Solar Neutrinos
Post by: WardoggKC130FE on March 04, 2009, 11:40:16 PM
That is the essence of my argument. I would like to know how to build such instrumentation.

What does the acronym TDR stand for?

Total Domination Racing?
Title: Re: Solar Neutrinos
Post by: LordTalon69 on March 05, 2009, 12:16:26 AM
That is the essence of my argument. I would like to know how to build such instrumentation.

What does the acronym TDR stand for?

Total Domination Racing?

or Time-Domain Reflectometer? lol
Title: Re: Solar Neutrinos
Post by: bowler on March 05, 2009, 12:41:56 AM
Yeah TDR is technical design report.
Title: Re: Solar Neutrinos
Post by: LordTalon69 on March 05, 2009, 12:51:13 AM
Yeah TDR is technical design report.

Now i know why i never visit this side of the forums, everyone is so technical. I was f'ing around with my answer dipdoodle.