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jamesr wrote: …

neutrinos are defintinely real – the spread in electron energy in beta decay means there must be a third particle shareing the energy – unless you want to throw out conepts like the conservation of momentum.

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The role of earths magnetic field is one aspect that is still little understood – how does the dynamo maintain itself?

The Standard Model is just the Standard Party Line. Taught as truth in schools. Hairy math not conducive to simulation. It’s useful in explaining experimental results, but does not yield insight into why things are like that. What the underyling causes are. Neutrinos, like the strong force, like dark matter, like the cosmological constant, are concepts dreamed up on whim that happen to make someone’s theory work better. Last I heard the sun was deficient in the expected amount of neutrinos.

By no means are any of these theories to be taken as the absolute truth. Professors teach the stuff, believe it as if it’s truth, devote their entire careers to pushing forward a bit more tissue paper and spit nuances, but the truth is the whole hodge podge is a mess. Eric goes into this a lot with his Big Bang Never Happened, have you not read it? I love that book.

As to how the dynamo maintains itself, since the earth’s magnetic field lines come out of the north and south poles, you need an electric current running along in a circle about the earth’s axis of rotation. Imagine the liquid core of the earth spinning at a slightly different rate as the surface, due to tidal effects from the moon. This relative motion could give rise to a magnetic field, if the liquid core is ionized somewhat. Venus has a weak magnetic field.

Who knows? I don’t have all the answers. I merely have formed the habit of not believing the standard scientific party line automatically. My interest is in machine intelligence, artificial intelligence. I’m much more knowledgeable in that arena. And the corruption of this field is ridiculous. They’ll never figure it out! So I project outward to most other human understanding.

Most science nowadays is just a scam to attract government research money. Conveniently no real useful results are required or expected. Just another form of entitlement. Good ‘ol boy network crap. From the peer review journal process all the way to tenure in universities, the system itself is corrupted.

Oh well.

-Dave