Photons are energy in space but not time.
Neutrinos are energy in time but not space.
Mass is a binding of space and time.
Thus, neither neutrinos nor photons have mass, and both travel at the speed of causality. Photons do not change, because they have no time. Neutrinos constantly change, because they are little else but time.
Neutrinos carry the weak force. The weak force governs decay. Spontaneous decay is entirely caused by time. That's why they're called half lives - half of the number of particle p will decay in time t.
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Time is a type of spin. Anti- particles have opposite spin time. Electric charge can be thought of as a spin in the same direction as time (arbitrarily plus), or the opposite direction (arbitrarily minus). Thus, an anti-electron (positron), with negative time, to have a negative charge from its own perspective, must have a positive charge from ours. Positive time, negative charge. Negative time, positive charge.
Photons I grok and can model. Trying to come up with a model to "get" neutrinos based on the above.
ReplyDeleteKeep going on your series, interesting stuff, food for thought.
Evidence for negative time?
Time ("proper" or subjective time, that is) is a sort of spin. Anti-time is merely spin in the opposite direction. This is why left handed neutrinos decay matter, and right handed neutrinos decay antimatter. I tend to believe that they interact with their opposite, as one would expect an anti-thing to do. That would make time right handed. But this is pure speculation.
DeletePhotons don't have an anti-particle because they don't have time. No spin direction to reverse.
Space and time are two separate but interdependent fields. Space is kinetic energy, and its natural units are real numbers. Time is potential energy, and its natural units are imaginary numbers. Thus, when you square them, you get a negative, and spacetime is hyperbolic.
ReplyDeleteRefresher: The highest law of geometry is the Pythagorean theorem, a^2 + b^2 = c^2. This holds in flat, Euclidean space, as measured by every test ever performed. However, since time is imaginary, space^2 - time^2 = c^2, resulting in curved, hyperbolic spacetime.
One of the most wondrous symmetries is:
Electromagnetism: Electric energy - magnetic energy = 0. You can't have one without the other.
Spacetime: Kinetic energy - potential energy = 1. You can't have one without the other.
I can visualize Euclidian space, no problem. No time, no problem, but on first blush I'd see that the spacetime would be variant based on time past the zero point from that? i.e., the shape of spacetime changes with time as time increase from zero??
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