Missing Solar Neutrinos - First Results

[CalliArcale]

Cool! I wish I could understand it. Let me also welcome you back, MichaelMozina. I continue to be in awe of you guys who grasp particle physics. <img src="/images/icons/wink.gif" /> I've expended all my meager knowledge on the subject ages ago.<br /><br />The neutrino results are interesting. I'm going to forward that to my physicist brother to see what he has to say; his doctoral thesis involved muons. <div class="Discussion_UserSignature"> <p> </p><p><font color="#666699"><em>"People assume that time is a strict progression of cause to effect, but actually from a non-linear, non-subjective viewpoint it's more like a big ball of wibbly wobbly . . . timey wimey . . . stuff."</em>  -- The Tenth Doctor, "Blink"</font></p> </div>

 

[michaelmozina]

http://public.lanl.gov/alp/plasma/downloads/CosmologyAlfven.pdf<br /><br />I would start with this paper. I'm going to discuss the electrical interactions between the sun and the universe in the thread I started yesterday on coronal heating. FYI, Alfven and his students like Perratt pretty much wrote the book on plasma cosmology. <div class="Discussion_UserSignature"> It seems to be a natural consequence of our points of view to assume that the whole of space is filled with electrons and flying electric ions of all kinds. - Kristian Birkeland </div>

 

[michaelmozina]

Thanks for your kind words Calli.<br /><br />I intend to post here pretty regularly for the next few months so that I can explain some of the concepts behind Alfven's MHD theories, and his views about plasma cosmology in general. My hope is to use some of the early Hinode magnetic field strength data that should become publicly available at the end of next month and to show how it applies to Alfven's MHD theories. My goal is use that early Hinode data and plug those field strength numbers into Alfven's mathematical formulas to calculate the current flows that traverse the largest of the coronal loops. <br /><br />My guess is that the Hinode magnetic field strength data is going to blow away most of the current predictions and it will eventually change modern astronomy as we understand it. I'd like to see that process play out publicly on a website like this, and I'd like to discuss some of the predictions of Alfven's theories before we actually gain access to the Hinode data. That way we can make some early predictions about the Hinode data and see how we do once that data is released to the public. <img src="/images/icons/smile.gif" /><br /><br />I must say, I really do enjoy posting here, and my intent is to become a "regular" around here. <img src="/images/icons/smile.gif" /><br /> <div class="Discussion_UserSignature"> It seems to be a natural consequence of our points of view to assume that the whole of space is filled with electrons and flying electric ions of all kinds. - Kristian Birkeland </div>