Spectacular Aspects of Neutrinos at or above Speed of Light

New York (ots) - In September 2011 a neutrino beam from a CERN lab
in Geneva, Switzerland to the 454 miles remote INFN Gran Sasso lab in
Italy seemed to travel 0.0025 percent faster through earth than speed
of light in a vacuum. Some undisputed pillars of classical physics
will completely totter if this experiment turns out to become
repeatable. Einstein theories actually allow the existence of
non-detectable particles moving faster than speed of light. These
particles are called tachyons. However, there is no possibility to
use such theoretical tachyons as a transport medium for information.
Einstein?s maximum information speed is strictly limited to the speed
of light. The spectacular aspect of such a detectable neutrino beam
would be less the discovery that neutrinos may be actually tachyons,
but an information speed above the speed of light barrier. As
observations of supernova bursts did not register neutrino beams long
time before the arrival of the photons of these cosmic catastrophes,
the experiment at CERN requires very critical reconsideration.
Neutrinos from the supernova 1987a were detected by the Kamioka
Nucleon Decay Experiment detector in Japan. The neutrinos arrived
only about three hours before light from supernova event reached
Earth, because of the fact that light is trapped in the supernova for
a short time period. This would indicate that neutrinos rather travel
at speed of light. If the CERN results are correct, the neutrinos
should have arrived years rather than hours before the supernova?s
light burst.

There are two quite simple explanations for this seeming
experimental contradiction to Einstein?s limitation of speed of light
in a vacuum and his postulate that baryonic matter cannot reach this
barrier because of their relativistic mass increase and thus the
infinite energy that would be needed.

1) If the experiment is not repeatable, there was a yet unknown
error in the evaluation method, as neutrinos do hardly interact with
matter and, therefore, are extremely difficult to be detected.

2) In case the experiment is repeatable or if neutrinos are
travelling exactly at speed of light, the simplest explanation would
be that four-dimensional space-time of a vacuum is not purely a
geometrical grid as assumed by Einstein, but a peculiar kind of
energetic storage medium that just was not captured with classical
physics, so far. The known fact about a medium is that certain
particles can actually travel faster than speed of light through this
medium, causing usually light phenomena that are known as Cherenkov
radiation. This Cherenkov Effect is comparable to the sonic boom
produced by a supersonic plane. If neutrinos travel exactly at the
speed of light, or even above this barrier, they could acquire their
extremely small mass by a similar effect, explaining why we do not
notice a tremendous relativistic mass increase despite their high
relative speed at or very close to speed of light, in contradiction
to Einstein?s imaginations and equations for baryonic masses.

But how could such a peculiar kind of space-time medium look like?
It definitely cannot be the type of ether as assumed by Lorentz and
other scientists still during all the years of Einstein?s geometrical
space-time approach, because speed of light would consequently not be
constant for any observer.

This riddle gets a first feasible solution if Einstein?s picture
of space-time is enriched with quantum mechanical aspects and
additionally with a rotary element of the well-known effect of a
relativity of simultaneity of events; a sort of quantum energy foam
appears this way in the vacuum of space. Einstein did not consider
any quantization of time and of length in his special and general
theory of relativity because such a limitation at infinitesimal
values was not yet discovered and discussed at that time. Neutrinos
where not known either. The very first quantum mechanical aspects
entered physics only years later in form of Heisenberg?s uncertainty
principle and Planck?s quantization scale.

Since Einstein?s era we do know that simultaneous events for an
observer in a spaceship along the ship?s moving axis will change into
sequential events for a remaining observer in case of high relative
speed because the speed of light stays constant for both observers
and, therefore, causing the so called relativity of simultaneity of
events. In case we limit now for example the distance between two
simultaneous light flashes at an infinitesimal small minimum value, a
remaining observer would read at a certain speed of the spaceship
these simultaneous events as sequential events. This has certainly an
energetic impact for the remaining observer because Einstein?s
space-time grid got this way a kind of energy storage effect along
his or her timeline for the second flash. This well-known function of
Einstein?s special theory of relativity can be drawn in a
two-dimensional graph with simultaneous events captured on an
x-length axis and sequential events captured on a y-time-axis.

Changing now simultaneous events into sequential events according
to the proven and undisputed formulas of relativistic mechanics and
considering this simple quantization scheme at the low limits of
space distance and time progress generates quantized rotary elements
within the overall picture. This leads to an extended space-time
structure with relative dark energy and dark matter storage areas and
to a feasible explanation for the strange nature and behavior of
neutrinos, no matter if they finally move exactly at the speed of
light, or closely below, or, completely unexpectedly, even slightly
above this level .

Contact:
Henryk Frystacki, PhD
Member of Russian Academy of Technical Sciences, Moscow
External Board Member of Institute for Gravitation and Cosmos at
Pennstate University, USA
Homepage www.frystacki.de
Phone: +49 08157924137