Friday, November 12, 2010

Nonequilibrium and Timelike Neutrino Oscillations in Nuclear Chain Reactions; Problems and Hope for the Study of Magnetohydrodynamics of the Desert Ocean

These diagrams show some of the mechanisms by which the collisions of cosmic rays with the nuclei of the atoms of gas molecules in the upper atmosphere (or at the shock front/Rayleigh-Taylor instability surface of the nuke, etc.) produce muon and electron neutrinos that then oscillate in a manner that "gets going" and gets some momentum, in terms of oscillations between the different time frames or "event frames" in which the detonation occurs and that surround the detonation site, in my opinion, and that are brought together at the detonation site, when the site is viewed as being a complex hyperbolic point/saddle point. In this context, the detonation site can be viewed as being a complex X-point, meaning a site of magnetic reconnection (at which the "center of the X" is the saddle point). I made these diagrams of neutrino oscillations because it's one way of looking at spacetime dynamics, and a lot of the research on neutrino physics is very important for understanding or for getting a sense of the dynamics of the geometry of spacetime. There's an excess of neutrino density that's created at the detonation site, and one can take a rigid and "classical" view that the timelike propagation of electron antineutrinos (shown as v(subscipt)e, with a dash over the v) (and muon antineutrinos and other flavors of antineutrinos), backward in time across some short time interval, and localized excesses of neutrino densities [at the detonation site(s) in different time frames] can, paradoxically, produce a kind of "neutrino vacuum" by simultaneously "drawing down" the flavors of neutrinos that are less abundant and by sending antineutrinos backward in time, thereby setting up timelike and "radially-rolodexed," or radially-oriented, neutrino oscillations. It's similar to a mass action effect in chemical kinetics, meaning that nonequilibrium conditions are persisting in the system and exerting a push and pull effect on the dynamics of neutrino oscillations and decay rates and rates of formation, as a result of nuclear chain reactions produced by the detonation. The detonation site, in that vein, is like a branch point in a complex set of metabolic pathways, such that the system in question (the set of metabolic pathways or, in this case, the different event frames) is not at equilibrium.






In this article [Schillaci, 2009: (http://www.phys.washington.edu/users/sharpe/486/schillacif.pdf)], the author discusses some of the problems that exist in physics, in relation to things such as, even, the most basic definition of what a magnetic field line actually means or actually "is." Even with the significant problems with those types of "definitions of what things actually are" in physics, the study of magnetohydrodynamics is in a very promising state, these days. There are also all of these subtypes of the different forms of magnetic reconnection. For example, there are relativistic and nonrelativistic forms of Sweet-Parker reconnection, in which the process occurs slowly and occurs through "collisional" mechanisms. Then there are different types of shock-associated, fast reconnection, and so on. The whole notion of the rate being a distinguishing characteristic is questionable, in my opinion. Anyway, the author of this document [Falthammar, 1997: (http://plasmauniverse.info/downloads/LifeAlfven.pdf)] discusses the work of Hannes Alfven in plasma physics and in the 'birth' of the field of magnetohydrodynamics, in which electromagnetic field dynamics in space plasmas (and in the spacetime that the plasmas consist of) are similar to the dynamics of ocean waves, etc.

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