Date: 21/09/2023 17:38:47
From: Tau.Neutrino
ID: 2077026
Subject: Neutrinos...Can Interact With Light After All

Neutrinos: ‘Ghost Particles’ Can Interact With Light After All
https://www.sciencealert.com/neutrinos-ghost-particles-can-interact-with-light-after-all

Neutrinos the tricky little particles that just stream through the Universe like it’s virtually nothing, may actually interact with light after all.

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Date: 22/09/2023 22:16:15
From: mollwollfumble
ID: 2077626
Subject: re: Neutrinos...Can Interact With Light After All

Tau.Neutrino said:


Neutrinos: ‘Ghost Particles’ Can Interact With Light After All
https://www.sciencealert.com/neutrinos-ghost-particles-can-interact-with-light-after-all

Neutrinos the tricky little particles that just stream through the Universe like it’s virtually nothing, may actually interact with light after all.

I don’t know how to interpret this.

On the one hand, interaction between photons and neutrinos doesn’t surprise me at all. Perhaps it should.

One the other hand, the statement:
“This is a long-standing mystery concerning the mechanism by which the outermost atmosphere of the Sun – its corona – is at a much higher temperature than the sun’s surface. Our work shows that the interaction between neutrinos and photons liberates energy that heats up the solar corona.”
Prompts my response “snowball’s chance in hell”

For starters, neutrinos interactions with everything are going to be very weak.
Second, solar magnetic fields are not particularly strong, if you want a seriously strong magnetic field, consider a magnetar.

Putting the two together, the interaction of neutrinos with the solar magnetic field is going to be a very weak effect. And the heating of the solar corona is a very strong effect. So no.

The standard explanation of the heating of the solar corona involves “spicules” on the surface of the Sun that channel large amounts of energy upwards.

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