Causality & Radioactivity.
Ken S. Tucker
Earth-Sun Distance
http://arxiv.org/abs/0808.3283
Hi Dr Enders, Charles, Murray and all.
This relates to Charle's post about radioactivity (decay
rates) in the "Causality" thread, and I'd like to link
them via a confusion I'd like to share about Neutron
(n) decay rates when (n) is free and unbound to a
nucleus, and that is ~ 15 minutes of life time, from
tables.
Well, as a brat I'm reading along studying mean
lifetimes of meson and hyperons seeing 10^-10 secs,
and my brain screeches to a halt at the (n) life of
15 minutes, which is like a relative eternity!
Next, how can a tiny thing like a (n) contain some
sort of clock that ticks off to explode in ~15 minutes??
If anyone wishes to explain how that sort of timer
can be contained within the (n)'s structure I'd be
happy to read about it.
So Tucker goes over to causality theory using
neutrino flux to explain the (n) decay rate, it's
obviously a fringe notion due to lack of data.
Let's begin with a quiki wifi, for ref,
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Neutron
and see the (n) decay as,
n => p+e+v'
and do a causal reversal to
n+v => p+e
with the neutrino (v) being of the appropriate
energy to intiate the (n) decay, thereby laying
radioactive decay rates on the (v) flux.
That was all conjecture until Super Nova 1987a.
Reports came in of a large amount of (v) flux from
terrestrial detectors and a star nearby SN1987a
brightend.
I'm sorry I cannot find an immediate ref to that
nearby star, the phenomena was fleeting,
however, if the observation was true, then the
(v) flux accelerated the *rate of fusion* within the
nearby star, and so to the rate of radioactivity,
that resulted from the (v) pulse from SN1987a.
That provided the 1st evidence that decay rates
are proportional to neutrino flux, hence providing
a causal basis for neutron decay life times.
Best Regards
Ken S. Tucker