Update to Einstein's Theory of Special Relativity

03/15/2021: This paper shows that the widely held premise that “nothing” can travel faster than the speed of light is false. All the ubiquitous arguments that purport to prove that “nothing” can travel faster than the speed of light will need to be limited to purport only that bradyons cannot travel faster than the speed of light. If neutrinos had positive mass, Newton’s second principle requires that they can be slowed down to any speed less than light speed. They do not and cannot, regardless of all barriers, because they are tachyons that must always travel faster than the speed of light. Faster-than-light is completely consistent with special relativity for neutrino particles with negative-imaginary rest mass. The time to extend and accept the special theory of relativity, to include all velocities slower or faster than the speed of light, is now.[4] Because of the scientific community’s hostility to anything new, such as neutrinos traveling faster than the speed of light, the possibility of tachyon neutrinos has not received the attention its’ importance deserves.

2004

After a brief overview of the present knowledge of neutrino masses and mixing, we summarize what can be learned about physics beyond the standard model from the various proposed neutrino experiments. We also comment on the impact of the experiments on our understanding of the origin of the matter-antimatter asymmetry of the Universe as well as what can be learned from some experiments outside the domain of neutrinos.

Physical Review D, 1999

In this work we propose an extended formulation for the interaction between neutrinos and gravitational fields. It is based on the parametrized post-Newtonian aproach, and includes a violation of the universality of the gravitational interaction which is non diagonal in the weak flavor space. We find new effects that are not considered in the standard scenario for violation of the equivalence principle. They are of the same order as the effects produced by the Newtonian potential, but they are highly directional dependent and could provide a very clean test of that violation. Phenomenological consequences are briefly discussed.

Journal of Advances in Physics, 2014

The research on quasi-luminal neutrinos has sparked several experimental studies for testing the "speed of light limit" hypothesis. Until today, the overall evidence favors the "null" hypothesis, stating that there is no significant difference between the observed velocities of light and neutrinos. Despite numerous theoretical models proposed to explain the neutrinos behavior, no attempt has been undertaken to predict the experimentally produced (v-c)/c results. This paper presents a simple novel extension of Newton's mechanics to the domain of relativistic velocities. For a typical neutrinovelocity experiment, the proposed model is utilized to derive a general expression for (v-c)/c. Comparison of the model's prediction with results of six neutrino-velocity experiments, conducted by five collaborations, reveals that the model predicts all the reported results with striking accuracy. Because in the proposed model, the direction of the neutrino flight matters, the model's impressive success in accounting for all the tested data, indicates a complete collapse of the Lorentz symmetry principle in situation involving quasi-luminal particles, moving in two opposite directions. This conclusion is support by previous findings, showing that an identical Sagnac effect to the one documented for radial motion, occurs also in linear motion.

Nuclear Physics B - Proceedings Supplements, 2004

The Seesaw mechanism predicted tiny neutrino masses by postulating a new large scale in particle physics, using new theoretical ideas prompted by the Standard Model. It adds credence to a theoretical vista that is a quarter century old, and fits with the most endearing speculations of ultimate unification. By relating the measurement of static neutrino properties to near-Planck physics, it may even prove key to solving the riddles of flavor.

Nuclear Physics B - Proceedings Supplements, 2000

The central role of neutrinos in the determination of fundamental interactions is reviewed. The recent Su-perKamiokande discovery of neutrino mass gives an aperçu of physics at short distances, and tests theories of flavor. Quark-lepton symmetries, derived from grand unification and/or string theories, can help determine the standard model parameters in the neutrino sector.

In my theory is evident that every particle has rest mass because a Special Information coded into the matter -into the primordial energy-waves- the information what determines the own mass of every particles. I./About Special Information's (SI) effect: a./Scientific fact that everything was ready in the first "moment" after Big Bang. The space-time and the matter appear together and Universe evolved step by step: in my opinion: by a Special Information's effect. b./There were primordial energy-waves (wave-functions) in the inflation: there were coded information about the properties of the matter in them by a Special Information: -About the double nature property- -About the wave- and particle properties. When inflation stopped: the primordial energy-waves changed into particles: appeared the three particle-families step by step.

Nuclear Physics B - Proceedings Supplements, 1997

A brief sketch is made of the present observational status of neutrino physics, with emphasis on the hints that follow from solar and atmospheric neutrino observations, as well as cosmological data on the amplitude of primordial density fluctuations. I also briefly review the ways to account for the observed anomalies and some of their implications.

International Journal of Modern Physics D, 2020

In this paper, we survey the main characteristics that provide neutrinos with the capability of being the perfect candidate to test gravity. A number of potentially resourceful scenarios are analyzed, with particular emphasis on how the versatility of neutrinos lends itself to understand the multifaceted nature of the gravitational interaction, both at classical and quantum scales. As a common thread running through the two different regimes, we consider the fundamental principles underpinning General Relativity and its possible quantum extensions. Finally, we discuss some open problems and future perspectives.

Astronomy and Astrophysics, 2006

Context. The widespread view that cosmological neutrinos, even if massive, are well described since the decoupling redshift z ≈ 10 10 down to the present epoch by an almost perfectly collisionless fluid of classical point particles is re-examined. Aims. In view of the likely sub-eV rest mass of neutrinos, the main effects due to their fermionic nature are studied. Methods. By numerical means we calculate the accurate entropy, fugacity and pressure of cosmological neutrinos in the Universe expansion. By solving the Schrödinger equation we derive how and how fast semi-degenerate identical free fermions become entangled. Results. We find that for sub-eV neutrinos the exchange degeneracy has significantly increased during the relativistic to non-relativistic transition epoch at z ≈ 10 4 − 10 5 . At all times neutrinos become entangled in less than 10 −6 s, much faster than any plausible decoherence time. The total pressure is increased by quantum effect from 5% at high redshifts to 68% at low redshifts with respect to a collisionless classical fluid. Conclusions. The quantum overpressure has no dynamical consequences in the homogeneous regime at high redshifts, but must be significant for neutrino clustering during the non-linear structure formation epoch at low redshifts.