Spike,<br>It would be still pretty revolutionary because there is not a straightforward mechanism for the neutrinos to affect the reactions even if beta decays is involved in some of the byproducts. <br>Maybe not completely new physics would be needed but some interesting mechanism for sure. <br>
Giovanni<br><br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Sun, Sep 2, 2012 at 11:14 AM, spike <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:spike66@att.net" target="_blank">spike66@att.net</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">
<div link="blue" vlink="purple" lang="EN-US"><div><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1f497d"><u></u> <u></u></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1f497d">>…</span><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif""> <b>On Behalf Of </b>John Clark<br>
<br></span><u></u><u></u></p><div><div class="im"><blockquote style="border:none;border-left:solid #cccccc 1.0pt;padding:0in 0in 0in 6.0pt;margin-left:4.8pt;margin-right:0in"><div><div><div><p class="MsoNormal">This is not supposed to happen.<u></u><u></u></p>
</div><div><p class="MsoNormal"><u></u> <u></u></p></div><div><p class="MsoNormal"><a href="http://wavewatching.net/2012/09/01/from-the-annals-of-the-impossible-experimental-physics-edition/" target="_blank">http://wavewatching.net/2012/09/01/from-the-annals-of-the-impossible-experimental-physics-edition/</a> <u></u><u></u></p>
</div></div></div></blockquote></div><div><p class="MsoNormal"><br></p><div class="im"><span style="color:#1f497d">>…</span>  I hope my skepticism will turn out to be undeserved<span style="color:#1f497d"><u></u><u></u></span></div>
<p></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1f497d"><u></u> <u></u></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1f497d">In physics, skepticism is always deserved, even if later shown to be wrong.<u></u><u></u></span></p>
<div class="im"><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1f497d"><u></u> <u></u></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1f497d">>…</span> Physics needs a good surprise.    John K Clark  <span style="color:#1f497d"><u></u><u></u></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1f497d"><u></u> <u></u></span></p></div><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1f497d">Oh my yes, physics is in desperate need of a good surprise.  But not this.  This wouldn’t be a good surprise.  If the sun impacts decay rates, then it could only be neutrinos doing it.  But the sun’s neutrino flux doesn’t vary on a regular basis.  Only the distance from the earth to the sun changes annually, which would affect the neutrino flux by about 7%.<span class="HOEnZb"><font color="#888888"><u></u><u></u></font></span></span></p>
<span class="HOEnZb"><font color="#888888"><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1f497d"><u></u> <u></u></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1f497d">spike<u></u><u></u></span></p>
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