On Fri, Oct 07, 2005 at 09:02:17PM -0400, Stephen Paul King wrote:
> Dear Russell,
>
> I hope you meant to write that photons are bosons with spin1. Otherwise
Yes, you are right. Mea culpa! Put it down to the couple of decades
since I studied this stuff...
> we would have a hard time explaining Maxwell's Field equations. ;-) About
> the differences between neutrinos and photons, we could also point out that
> photons have a null extension in the time direction and neutrinos, having a
> small but non-zero mass have an extension in the time direction - I am
> thinking here in terms of how we would embed our particles in a Minkowski
> or equivalent space-time diagrams.
>
Indeed - I thought about raising this difference also. Neutrinos are
now accepted as having nonzero mass, although that wasn't the case
when I was studying physics. Also, this guy would probably come back
with photons having nonzero rest mass! After all, he reckons Einstein
goofed, and that relativity is a load of old cobblers, so having
nonzero restmass particles traveling at the speed of light wouldn't be
a problem for him!
> Kindest regards,
>
> Stephen
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Russell Standish" <r.standish.domain.name.hidden>
> To: "John Ross" <jross.domain.name.hidden>
> Cc: "'Stephen Paul King'" <stephenk1.domain.name.hidden>;
> <everything-list.domain.name.hidden>
> Sent: Friday, October 07, 2005 6:12 PM
> Subject: Re: Neutrino shield idea
>
>
> Neutrinos are fermions with spin 1/2. Photons are bosons with spin
> 0. This is about as chalk and cheese as you can get. The difference is
> not energy.
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