JOINT PARTICLE SEMINAR

NOTE SPECIAL PLACE AND TIME

Date: Tuesday, 5 November 2002   Time: 4:00 p.m.

Place: 4135 Frederick Reines Hall

Speaker: Leo Stodolsky, Munich Max Planck Institute

Title: Two Speculations in Astro-particle Physics


Abstract: We discuss how due to neutrino mass there is a general relativistic effect in the delay time for neutrino bursts from cosmologically distant sources. In principle this would permit a measurement of the acceleration parameter q of cosmology in a manner totally different both theoretically and instrumentally from the classical method. Also we briefly discuss the possibility that in a universe with time-dependent constants, particles could arrive at the earth with slightly different properties than those for local particles.

Host: J. Feng