Reply To: What can we do with $189 Billion?

[Brian H]

Mstry4u wrote: I guess I’m not gone that easily … I understand that we may not know each other and I’m a pretty exccentric fella whose travelled around the globe and studied a lot of oddball things in archeology / physics / art … I’m way too easy going and simpliy fascinated and curious to accept your insult … so there … you can have it back.

Now that’s done … the question still stands … can a neutrino pass through the restricted dimension of a layer of barium leaded glass in a liquid (helium) cooled BEC state, regardless of timeline.

ps: my brains are fine brian … thanx

Sorry for the insult, but “… we can’t seem to comprehend using this high tech nano material in construction that they managed to do it over 5,000 years ago.” We understand fine how to use it in ordinary ways, and it presents no problems or surprises for us or the Chinese at room temp; the “high tech nano” aspect, whatever that is, is a function of very low temperature physics. So there is nothing in common.

“It is also interesting to note that an emporer of the time burned all the books on alchemy because they had discovered how to turn lead into gold and were concerned about it’s disruption to the financial stability. Now we all know that lead into gold is a fairy tale, but in modern physics it is possible to turn mercury into gold with a neutron source through noble metal transmutation, regardless of how picky about spelling you are I still find this amazing don’t you?” The parallel is merely a result of comparable densities; worldwide, “alchemists” were trying and claiming to “switch” the two and that kind of similarity-magic thinking was a dead end that absorbed huge amounts of brainpower and effort for centuries, with zero benefit to science or society. Your assertion that “they had discovered how to turn lead into gold” sounded like a flat-out assertion of the value and validity of alchemy to me. Notwithstanding your subsequent acknowledgment that it is/was a “fairy tale”.

What is more interesting is the insight of the Emperor in understanding the importance of a stable medium of economic exchange; there are many who consider much of the current financial turmoil to be a consequence of losing sight of that.

BEC states and neutrinos are not linked in any of the literature I’ve heard about, nor is there any reason to think neutrinos would find BEC any harder to penetrate than other matter; you have not referenced anything that suggests otherwise.