Yeah, dzogi, I expect it is nonsense although I've not seen the article, of course. There is a small amount of energy relesed on the absorption of the neutrino, but small compared to many nuclear processes.
A Tl atom can absorb a neutrino and through sort of a reverse beta decay become an atom of lead - Pb-205. The lead is stuck in the mineral and so if you can detect the few lead atoms generated over the geologic time you will have an idea of neutrino flux over geologic time... It isn't used...
Roughly QM was derived from classical mechanics along this path (Very roughly...)
Lagrangian CM --> Hamiltonian CM --> Poisson Brackets (Still CM) --> Commutator operators (Pretty much Quantum) --> Either Heisenberg or Schroedinger approach. There's much abstract math at each step of this...
Here's two that have served me well:
Mathematical Methods in the Physical Sciences by Mary L Boas, Wiley $ Sons
(This one is not at a high level, but thorough)
and
Mathematical Methods for Physicists by Arfken and Weber, Elsevier Academic Press.
(This one seems to come in several...
electronic confusion
The electron is a single point charge, and so does not have an electric dipole moment. However it does have a magnetic dipole moment - that is it does act like a little magnet in addition to its charge. This is related to its spin. Look up gyromagnetic ratios and g-...
Well OK - If you were made up of neutral particles, but these particles could interact with each other some way besides electromagnetically so you could hold together, but if they didn't interact with the brick you are trying to lift, your hand would simply pass through the brick. Very ghost...
There are two issues in this thread: Reflection as in a mirror, and transmission through a transparent medium.
Mirror reflection requires free electrons in the material - metallic surfaces are good (a mirror can be made by silvering a glass surface), because a metal has a 'gas' of electrons...
If you are talking about walking through the wall and maintaining your identity then you are assuming no chemical interactions - your molecules are not changed. This means that Pauli exclusion, and HUP aren't important. The reason you can't walk through the wall is due to the electrostatic...