Neutrons Escaping to a Parallel World?

[xSilverPhinx]

ScienceDaily - Neutrons Escaping to a Parallel World?

In a paper recently published in European Physical Journal (EPJ) C, researchers hypothesised the existence of mirror particles to explain the anomalous loss of neutrons observed experimentally.

Theoretical physicists Zurab Berezhiani and Fabrizio Nesti from the University of l'Aquila, Italy, reanalysed the experimental data obtained by the research group of Anatoly Serebrov at the Institut Laue-Langevin, France. It showed that the loss rate of very slow free neutrons appeared to depend on the direction and strength of the magnetic field applied. This anomaly could not be explained by known physics.

This is so cool, even if not proven (yet, hopefully). Seriously, why need science fiction when physics can be stranger? 

[Recusant]

Thanks for posting that, xSilverPhinx. I wish that I had a better grasp of the mathematics behind physics. The prose version of this seems overly vague. I imagine that a good look at the original work (including any equations) would be required to properly understand what they say might be going on. Maybe I'm just being obtuse. Then again, maybe the author of that brief article in ScienceDaily has done a less than stellar job translating it for a non-specialist reader.

[xSilverPhinx]

Thanks for posting that, xSilverPhinx. I wish that I had a better grasp of the mathematics behind physics. The prose version of this seems overly vague. I imagine that a good look at the original work (including any equations) would be required to properly understand what they say might be going on. Maybe I'm just being obtuse. Then again, maybe the author of that brief article in ScienceDaily has done a less than stellar job translating it for a non-specialist reader.

I don't think you're being obtuse, I agree with your points. Mostly "This anomaly could not be explained by known physics." is what caught my eye, and the fact that something is happening to neutrons and is experimentally observed is very interesting. I'm assuming that it isn't like the other rather infamous CERN incident with the faster-than-light neutrinos.

Then again, maybe the author of that brief article in ScienceDaily has done a less than stellar job translating it for a non-specialist reader.

Huge problem facing science these days, if you ask me. Alienating people will only harm in the long run, especially if trying to get people in general to support a cause, which would be to invest in science, when they don't understand what it's even about.

[markmcdaniel]

Interesting article and I look forward to more information. I suspect that in the end this will not pan out. This of course may be due to my prejudice on the subject. I have a problem with multiple world interpretations of quantum physics due to the it's need for infinite energy to make it work. Still it will be a fun concept to play with.

[xSilverPhinx]

Interesting article and I look forward to more information. I suspect that in the end this will not pan out. This of course may be due to my prejudice on the subject. I have a problem with multiple world interpretations of quantum physics due to the it's need for infinite energy to make it work. Still it will be a fun concept to play with.

I think it has it's charme Can it work with infinite energy coming from elsewhere besides this universe?

Problem with this is, and I'm a complete layperson here, but how would they even design an experiment to show that neutrons really are going to parallel universes? ???

[markmcdaniel]

Interesting article and I look forward to more information. I suspect that in the end this will not pan out. This of course may be due to my prejudice on the subject. I have a problem with multiple world interpretations of quantum physics due to the it's need for infinite energy to make it work. Still it will be a fun concept to play with.

I think it has it's charme Can it work with infinite energy coming from elsewhere besides this universe?

Problem with this is, and I'm a complete layperson here, but how would they even design an experiment to show that neutrons really are going to parallel universes? ???

I think that regardless of its source that infinite is still going to be a problem. As for designing an experiment will probably be a nightmare.