Could Misbehaving Neutrinos Explain Why the Universe Exists?

Space.com ^ | Oct 28, 2018 | Don Lincoln, Senior Scientist, Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory

[Intolerant in NJ]

It could - but what explains misbehaving neutrons?......

[9YearLurker]

Sounds like a punk band.

[\/\/ayne]

Video: Fats Waller - Ain't Misbehavin' (1943)

[Larry Lucido]

Anti neutrinos matter.

[Boogieman]

“Somehow, when the universe was about a tenth of a trillionth of a second old, the laws of nature skewed ever-so-slightly in the direction of matter.”

The only real way to do “speculative science” like this is to project the current conditions into the past and extrapolate what the universe must have been like then. Once you make the desperate leap to assuming that the most basic conditions like the physical laws must have been different in the past, you have compromised your own extrapolation. There is absolutely no way to determine anything about the past beyond the point where you postulate the physical laws were different, since you have no way to determine what those physical laws might have been like, or what the ramifications of those changes would have been.

[dartuser]

You know you have reached the pinnacle of your scientific career when you posit a theory that predicts you won’t find any evidence to support it.

[a fool in paradise]

>>It could - but what explains misbehaving neutrons?......

[M Kehoe]

Since the universe is binary, you can have good neutrinos and bad neutrinos.

Imho.

5.56mm

[blam]

This fellow (below) travelled at 186,000 miles per second for four billion years (how many miles is that?).

High-Energy Subatomic Particle (Neutrino) Traced To Black Hole Billions Of Light Years From Earth

[a fool in paradise]

Pinto : I won't go schizo, will I?

Jennings : It's a distinct possibility.

[ETL]

4 billion x 5.9 trillion

[blam]

"4 billion x 5.9 trillion"

Thanks.

I was expecting someone to say, four billion light years.

[ETL]

Lol!

[GraceG]

[Zuben Elgenubi]

This is really a well written article. Thanks for posting.

[BitWielder1]

Naughty Neutrons.

[BitWielder1]

Naughty Neutrinos.

(That's what I meant, clicked too soon.)
(A good name for an all girl band.)

[Steely Tom]

How wonderful we have met with a paradox.
Now we have some hope of making progress.

—Neils Bohr

[ETL]

This is really a well written article. Thanks for posting.

You’re welcome.

Author: Don Lincoln, Senior Scientist, Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory; Adjunct Professor of Physics, University of Notre Dame