The
Solar Neutrino Problem
In
In
1968, the Brookhaven physicist Raymond Davis Jr. conducted an experiment to
detect neutrinos produced by the Sun’s internal reactions. He built a
collection device, a hundred thousand gallon tank almost a mile beneath the
Earth’s surface filled with cleaning fluid. The theory stated that neutrinos
would interact with chlorine atoms from the cleaning fluid and produce the
radioactive element Argon 37, which then could be detected as an electron is
emitted during its decay. Although, the results produced from this experiment
has not backed current theories. The presence of detected neutrinos was far less
than anticipated rate of fusion reaction taking place in the core of the Sun.
Basically he arrived at correct reaction rate, but mankind over estimates the
rate of fusion reactions occurring in the core of a star. In his quest to solve
the puzzle, he overlooked the obvious. Neutrinos are a sub-atomic particle that
is not absorbed readily, so the majority of the few particles detected were
created in the cores of distant stars and not the Sun. Leading to a conclusion
that the rate of the fusion reaction proceeding within the core of the Sun is
only a tiny fraction of mankind’s estimates.
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Mankind's Explanation to Solar Neutrinos