In message <4ec95f99.80...@rubidium.dyndns.org>, Magnus Danielson writes: >On 11/20/2011 08:55 PM, Poul-Henning Kamp wrote:
>It seems that nature has something to teach us. A whole bunch of new >physics have something new to work on. :) One of the really interesting things about neutrions is that nuclear reactors emit a lot of anti-neutrinos. When I learned physics, neutrinos were assumed mass-less, and whatever interactions with matter they had, were probably "accidental" rather than "by nature". The standard way to deal with them, was to just ignore them, as they could be "safely ignored". As a result of this "everybody knows" assumption, any and all studies about cancer and other health-issues from living close to nuclear reactors have totally ignored the anti-neutrinoes, which are as intense as the solar neutrinos if you are close to a reactor. Now neutrinoes probably have a bit of mass, and they do interact with matter in a biologically very nasty "one step to the side in the periodic table" way, which can wreck havoc if they damage RNA/DNA (C->N, N->O, O->F, P->S). Suddenly the barely perceptible child-leukemia over-population really close to reactors has a plausible physical explanation. But nobody in the radiation-health business looks at this, because they were all educated many years ago, and just "know" that neutrinos can be "safely ignored". As long as you live more than a km away from the reactor, you and your children should be prefectly safe. -- Poul-Henning Kamp | UNIX since Zilog Zeus 3.20 p...@freebsd.org | TCP/IP since RFC 956 FreeBSD committer | BSD since 4.3-tahoe Never attribute to malice what can adequately be explained by incompetence. _______________________________________________ time-nuts mailing list -- time-nuts@febo.com To unsubscribe, go to https://www.febo.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/time-nuts and follow the instructions there.