Neutrinos from Everywhere?
Two hundred years ago, Olbers presented his "paradox". He calculated that,
if the Universe is essentially infinite, then in any and every direction we
should look, there should eventually be the surface of a star. That would
have implied that the night sky should be as bright as the surface of the
Sun. Obviously, that is not true and the sky is dark at night!
The resolution of the Olbers paradox is that obscuring gas blocks most
of that light from getting to us.
Consider the same reasoning regarding neutrinos. Nothing blocks
the progress of neutrinos! According to accepted
Physics theory, there should be at least one neutrino emitted
during every nuclear fusion event, along with one or more photons
of light. Even if the light is obscured from us for most of the stars,
the neutrinos should not be, because they should have easily passed
through any and all material on the way. It is virtually universally
accepted that neutrinos easily pass completely through the entire
Earth, with most of them not being affected at all.
We do experiments deep in underground caves and mines to detect
neutrinos from the Sun, but shouldn't we actually be
receiving around 200,000 times that rate of neutrinos because the total
angular area of the sky is around that much larger than the angular area
of the Sun? Every one of those stars that sends photons toward us must be
creating an equivalent number of neutrinos in the process, right? So it
seems that we should be inundated by random incoming neutrinos from every
possible direction.
And if that is NOT the case, then either the neutrinos have some sort of
limitation on their mean path length or that the "map" thus created should
give some indication of any non-sphericity of the Universe. In both cases,
new thought seems necessary.
In other words, I do not see why the Olbers paradox should not apply to
neutrinos. Which then represents a SERIOUS theoretical problem for
Physics to confront!
This presentation was first placed on the Internet in October 2004.
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C Johnson, Physicist, Physics Degree from Univ of Chicago