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NEUTRINOS AND MAGNETIC FIELDS 
by Peter Rose FSI

The other evening I saw the last part of a TV program about 'neutrinos'. Although I trained as an engineer, working in electro magnetic machines, I am not a scientist. So I may have misunderstood the program. 

'Neutrinos' are particles that are so small we have only just realised they exist My dictionary defines neutrinos as  “a stable elementary particle with zero rest mass and spin ½ that travels at the speed of light” This is now out of date as the experiments show the particles can change and so must have a mass and so can not—as far as we know- travel at the speed of light—but, in the reality that is our universe, we do not know much about anything  and the more we learn; the more we realise how little we know.

It seemed that Japanese experiments showed only half the number of neutrinos coming up through the earth compared to the numbers coming down from above. (at the time it was assumed neutrinos had no mass and traveled at speed of light and could pass straight through solid objects, without even slowing down.) From the Japanese experimental results it was deduced that neutrinos do have a mass and so something called “neutrino oscillation” is possible—this is the ability to change to a slightly different form, called a different flavour of neutrino.

MY QUESTION

My question is; what happened to the half of the neutrinos that were not detected after passing through the earth? Do they stay in the earth’s core? Do they have anything to do with the changes to the magnetic field and polarity of the earth? May be it is simply a case that the Japanese experiment could not detect the neutrinos after they changed flavour and so they did pass through the earth but un-noticed.

If this is the case then 3 further thoughts arise. Firstly, if a particular flavour of neutrino could not be detected then that flavour coming from above would also escape detection.  Secondly, does the actual passage of neutrinos have an effect on the magnetic field? and thirdly, since all change requires a) mass b) time and c) energy; does the energy used in changing flavour have an effect on the magnetic field of planet Earth.?

There is so much we do not know about magnetic forces; we can harness some to generate electricity and to drive machinery. We use some for healing and others for amusement, but we know so little about the effects of this wonderful force, on our everyday lives.

The polarity of the earth is known to change and it is believed we are in the early stages of a change now, quite how this will affect us is uncertain. What is certain is that magnetism forms part of our life and so using magnets, to repair damage and to improve ailing bodies makes perfectly good and natural sense.

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