On Thu, Oct 8, 2015 at 7:43 AM, Jones Beene <jone...@pacbell.net> wrote:
Even the neutrino, another "invented particle" has been shown to have a > real identity, having once served the same purpose, which is as > place-holder, in the past. Not the quark. This may be true. But the iconoclast who would disabuse us of our belief in neutrinos owes us an alternative explanation for (a) conservation of lepton number (or lack thereof) and the implications that flow from this symmetry; and (b) the broadband (rather than narrowband) energies for electrons and positrons that result from beta decays. The current explanation for (b) is that beta decays have three daughters rather than two (the decaying nucleus, the emitted electron/positron and the neutrino). In three body decays the energies assigned to each daughter are somewhat indeterminate whereas they are known in advance if there are only two daughters, and I think this is the same three-body scatterings in classical mechanics. Eric
