Cosmology: the mysterious neutrino (Introduction)

by Balance_Maintained , U.S.A., Friday, August 04, 2017, 05:41 (2668 days ago) @ David Turell

It can be three things at once:

https://aeon.co/essays/the-explosive-tale-of-a-spy-a-ghost-particle-and-a-new-physics?u...

"Neutrinos are fundamental to the construction of the Universe. They are tremendously abundant, outnumbering atoms by about a billion to one. They modulate the reactions that cause massive stars to explode as supernovas. Their properties provide clues about the laws governing particle physics. And yet neutrinos are among the most enigmatic particles, largely due to their reticent nature: they have no electric charge and practically no mass, so they interact only extremely weakly with ordinary matter. Some 65 billion of them stream through every square centimetre of your body – an area the size of a thumbnail – every second, without your ever noticing them. 

"Through elaborate sleuthing, physicists have identified three distinct types of neutrinos, which differ in their subtle interactions with other particles. Stranger still, the neutrinos can ‘oscillate’ between types, shedding one identity and adopting another as they travel through space. That discovery led to a significant expansion of the standard theory of how particles behave. Now neutrinos and their subtle oscillations have helped physicists prove an even deeper mystery of matter.

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David: Comment: More evidence that the basis of the universe is quantum mechanics. What is more amazing is that big brained H. sapiens could predict the neutrino and then start to understand what they mean to the standard model. It takes the big brain, which started out 300,000 years ago not knowing what it did not know. Size first, obviously.

What is more interesting to me is that research into Quantum Physics implies that these particles alter their 'reality' based on OBSERVATION. The ACT of OBSERVING them changes the way they behave. We have all heard that. It is part the logic behind Schrodinger's Cat, Quantum Entanglement, and Superposition. What I find interesting is that no one that I have heard of ever asked the most interesting question of all:

If quantum particles respond to observation, and they are older than any known existing consciousness, whose conscious observation were they responding to during the formation of our universe? What 'LAW' governs that they respond to observation, and why would that law even exist in nature if there were nothing to observe them? No other fundamental law requires pre-existing consciousness to have meaning at time of implementation. i.e. At T0, all other natural laws that we know of (more or less) make sense in and of themselves, without the need for any external validation. This effect ONLY makes sense in the presence of pre-existing consciousness, unlike all other 'natural laws'.

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What is the purpose of living? How about, 'to reduce needless suffering. It seems to me to be a worthy purpose.