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From: Aether Regained <AetherRegaind@somewhere.in.the.aether>
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Subject: Re: The HOAX of the neutrino invention. After 95 years don't know
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Ross Finlayson:
> On 04/02/2025 12:57 PM, Aether Regained wrote:
>> rhertz:> In 1930 Wolfgang Pauli  proposed the existence of the neutrino
>> (named in
>>> 1933 by Fermi) to solve the violation of energy conservation in beta
>>> decay (when a neutron turns into a proton and emits an electron).
>>> Scientists observed that the emitted electrons had varying energies,
>>> rather than a fixed value as expected. The neutrino was ALLEGEDLY
>>> detected experimentally by Cowan and Reines in 1956.
>>>
>>> The missing energy varied from 0.1 to 0.2 eV (millions of times lower
>>> than electrons at rest). Pauli assumed that neutrinos might be massless,
>>> like photons, and this kept in the '70s, with the Standard Model
>>> (1970s). Analysis from Solar Neutrinos (1960s–2001) suggested that
>>> neutrinos oscillate, wich (de Broglie) require mass.
>>>
>>> Up to date, the neutinos mass is UNKNOWN. As neutrinos proved to be the
>>> JOKER CARD of particle physics, different types of neutrino emerged
>>> since its invention TO JUSTIFY the conservation of energy. All three of
>>> them were asigned a spin of 1/2 in the Standard Model, only for
>>> equations involving SMEP charged particles. They are; Electron neutrino
>>> (< 2.2 eV), Muon neutrino (< 0.17 eV) and Tau neutrino (< 15.5 MeV). The
>>> energies ARE STILL NOT KNOWN (so their mass, IF THEY HAVE IT AT ALL).
>>>
>>
>> In psychology there is a well documented phenomenon, in which a
>> perpetrator accuses others of the very sin he is guilty of.
>>
>> Pauli is the classic example of this. He was the one who coined the
>> term: "NOT EVEN WRONG" to describe a theory that could not be falsified.
>> In hindsight we see that it was his coping mechanism or a preemptive
>> measure he took, so others didn't accuse him of being "NOT EVEN WRONG"
>> with his unfalsifiable neutrino theory.
>>
> 
> Yeah, it's usually called "projection".
> 

Thanks Ross. That is exactly the term I was trying to recall.

Wikipedia has some more interesting details:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Psychological_projection

> Pauli was a pragmatist, as a physicist he wasn't much of a philosopher,
> sort of a narrow view. The Pauli principle of course is part and parcel
> of particle physics, since they aren't points and not perfect,
> then I read that he was rather irascible and not very congenial,
> then that his interactions as much discouraged others as made
> any sorts positive contributions himself.
> 
> Or, after Pauli principle and Pauli/Dirac formalism and that,
> he's mostly "not even wrong", ....
> 
> Neutrino theory isn't unfalsifiable, something like "virtual photons"
> are quite worse, while of course "dark matter and energy" are pretty
> much having falsified a usual sort theory with such type things.
> 
> 
> I.e., one can re-write QED with a different mechanism and it could
> be just as explanatory as "virtual photons", and, they don't have
> the usual accoutrement of virtual particle auto-annihilation that
> makes other kinds of virtual particles falsifiable, and, the
> crisis in cosmology is a rather poor charade.
> 
> Anyways I'd like to think that Pauli had at least one good idea,
> since otherwise Pauli principle is just a rather simple excluded middle,
> in geometry, then otherwise he's more guilty of dumbing
> down the discussion than being memorable for something greater,
> it's not really that relevant, though for example I point to
> Pauli principle for what it is and Pauli/Dirac a usual formalism.
> 
> There are others that suffice for the same things, ....
> 
> 
> There's projection then there's also a sort of reverse projection,
> though that's sort of more the passive than the active, say.
> 
> 
> Anyways neutrinos are definitely a thing and the crisis in
> cosmology is definitely a thing, and most people don't give
> two cares about it, and most's opinions aren't worth two cents.
> 
>