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Synthetic DNA and artificial cell what are the ethical issues its application in the real life and in human disease at cost of 400 million dollars Research"
Authors are
o*Professor Pranab Kumar Bhattacharya MD(cal univ) FIC path(Ind),Professor Dept of pathology
*Rupak Bhattacharya Bsc(cal.univ )MSc(JU), **Ritwik Bhattacharya B.com(cal.Univl), **Somayak Bhattacharya BSC (HM)(IGNOU) MSc( PUSHA) - Asst Lecturer of IHM Ahemadabad India - Residences 7/51 Purbapalli,Sodepur, Kol110, ***Miss Upasana Bhattacharya - “ Only Daughter of Prof PK Bhattacharya **Dalia Mukherjee BA(hons) cal Univ, Miss Oindrila Mukherjee, Miss Ayshi Mukherjee Dr Hriday Das MD(cal.Univ ) DTM&H(cal Univ) Dr Tarun Biswas MBBS(cal Univ) Dept of Pathology
*Previously at Institute of Post Graduate Medical Education Research 244 AJC Bose Road kol-20 West Bengal, India, Now Posted as Professor&HOD of Pathology at Murshidabad District Medical College Behrampore Murshidabad West Bengal
Published online 24 May 2010 | Nature | doi:10.1038/news.2010.261
A synthetic creation story Claims of 'synthetic life' reflect only our changing conception of what life is and how it might be made, says Philip Ball. Philip Ball Last week's announcement of the 'chemical synthesis of a living organism' by Craig Venter and his colleagues at the J. Craig Venter Institute1heads up a very long tradition. Claims such as this have been made throughout history.That's not to cast aspersions on the new results. One can challenge the idea that Venter's bacterium stands apart from Darwinian evolution, modelled as it is on Mycoplasma mycoides.It is nonetheless an unprecedented triumph of biotechnological ingenuity.
But, set in a historical context, what the researchers have achieved is not so much a 'synthesis
of life' as a semi-synthetic recreation of what we currently deem life to be. And, as with
previous efforts, it should leave us questioning the adequacy of that view.
To see that the new results reiterate a perennial theme, consider the headline of the Boston
Herald in 1899: "Creation of Life. Lower Animals Produced by Chemical Means." The article
described how German biologist Jacques Loeb induced an unfertilized sea-urchin egg to divide
and develop into a larva by treating it with salts. Loeb went on to talk in earnest about "the artificial production of living matter", and he was not alone in blending his discovery with speculations about the de novo creation of life. In 1912, the physiologist Edward Albert Schäfer alluded optimistically to Loeb's results in his presidential address to the British Association, in which he expressed great optimism about "the possibility of the synthesis of living matter"2 .Such claims are commonly seen to imply that artificial human life is next on the agenda. It wasa sign of the times that the New York Times credulously reported in 1910 that, "Prof.Herrera, a Mexican scientist, has succeeded in forming a human embryo by chemical combination". It is surely no coincidence that many media reports have compared Venter to Frankenstein, or that the British newspaper The Observer mistakenly suggested he has"succeeded in 'creating' human life for the first time".
What is life?
Beliefs about the feasibility of making artificial organisms have always been governed by the
prevailing view of what life is. When the Universe was seen as an intrinsically fecund matrix,
25-5-2010 A synthetic creation story : Nature Ne…nature.com/…/news.2010.261.html 1/7“'Life' in biology,rather like 'force'in physics, is aterm carried over from a time when scientists thought quite differently,when it served as a makes hift bridge over the inexplicable.”permitting bees and vermin to emerge from rotten flesh by spontaneous generation, it seemed natural to imagine that sentient beings might issue forth from insensate matter. Mechanical models of biology developed during the seventeenth century fostered the idea that a 'spark of life' — after the discovery of electricity, literally that — might animate a suitably arranged assembly of organic parts. The blossoming of chemistry and evolutionary theory in the nineteenth century, meanwhile, spurred a conviction that it was all about getting the recipe right, so that nature's diverse grandeur sprung from primordial colloidal jelly called protoplasm. Yet each apparent leap forwards in this endeavor more or less coincided with a realization that the problem is not so simple. Protoplasm appeared as organic chemists were beginning to erode the concept of vital ism and to appreciate the baffling constitution of organic matter. The claims of Loeb and Schäfer came just before tools for visualizing the sub cellular world began to show the incredible complexity of life's micro structure. And it was the same story for the next big splash in 'making life', when in 1953 Harold Urey and Stanley Miller announced their celebrated 'prebiotic soup' experiment, in which they conjured amino acids from simple raw materials. Some press reports regarded this as a new genesis, in principle if not in practice. Yet that same year saw the game-changing discovery oflife's informational basis in the work of Crick and Watson. Now life was not so much about molecules, but about cracking, and perhaps then rewriting, the genetic code.No more codes Which brings us to Venter et al. Now that the field of genomics has fostered the belief that in sequencing genomes we are reading a 'book of life', it's easy to see why 'booting up' a wholly synthetic genome in a bacterial host should be popularly deemed a synthesis of life itself. Here the membranes, the cytoplasm — everything except the genes — are mere peripherals to the hard drive of life, whose algorithmic instructions need only be rejigged to produce new organisms. But this latest work should encourage us to lay aside the very concepts of an 'artificial organism'and a 'synthesis of life'. Life is not a thing one makes, nor is it even a process that arises or is set in motion. It is a property we may chooseto bestow, more or less colloquially, on certain organizations of matter.25-5-2010 A synthetic creation story : Nature News…nature.com/…/news.2010.261.html 2/7#10725
Comment No#10725
Title"Synthetic DNA and artificial cell – what are the ethical issues its application in the
real life and in human disease at cost of 400 million dollars Research"
Authors
o*Professor Pranab Kumar Bhattacharya MD(cal) FIC path(Ind),Professor Dept of pathology
oRupak Bhattacharya Bsc(cal)MSc(JU), Ritwik Bhattacharya B.com(cal), Somayak Bhattacharya MBA 7/51 Purbapalli,Sodepur, Kol110, Miss Upasana Bhattacharya – daughter of Prof PK Bhattacharya Dr. Avisnata Das MBBs(cal) Dalia Mukherjee BA(hons) cal Miss Oindrila Mukherjee, Mrs Chandrani Dutta BSC(Zoology)* Dr Hriday Das MD(cal) DTM&H(cal) *Dr Tarun Biswas MBBS(cal) Dept of Pathology
*Institute of Post Graduate Medical Education Research 244a AJC Bose Road kol-20 West Bengal,
India
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Artificial life is a field of study and an associated art form which examine systems related to life, its
processes, and its evolution through simulations using computer models, robotics, and biochemistry.
There are three main kinds of artificial life named for their approaches: soft from software; hard , from hardware; and wet, from biochemistry molecules. Artificial life imitates traditional biology by trying to recreate biological phenomena. Artificial life has had a controversial history. John Maynard Smith11 criticized certain artificial life work in 1994 as "fact-free science". However, the recent publication of artificial life articles in widely read world’s top impact factor and coveted science journals such as Science and Nature is evident that artificial life techniques are becoming more accepted in the mainstreamas synthetic biology, at least as a method of studying Darwin’s Chemical evolution. Synthetic and self replicating DNA or RNA is part of such an artificial life and tool for studying evolution of life in earth. Evolving such an artificial DNA in laboratory was thus for long years before attempt of research since Watson and Crick Double Helix. The artificial DNA-like molecule directed the synthesis of copies of itself and then copies of the copies, mimicking the natural process of evolution as it was first outlined by Charles Darwin. A polynucleotide is a building block of DNA, or a "letter" in the genetic alphabet used to write the "book" describing our genetic inheritance. The first Synthetic Virus was done in 2002 in stony brook university Newyork by a team of scientist led by Eckarde wimmr (Science, 9 August 2002, p. 1016) Benner and Michael Sismour- two Graduate student of university of California in 2004 first made a synthetic DNA of 12 nucleotides of a virus but it could not however copied itself. In 2010, The first synthetic and self replicating DNA /cell as a bacterium has been claimed by Professor Dr C J Venter of J. Craig Venter Institute (JCVI) in Rockville, Maryland, and San Diego, California, [ He was best known for his work with the Human Genome Project] is successful and same is published in journal the science[ 1]. The cell is claimed totally derived from a synthetic chromosome [They bought it from a company more than 1000 -1080-base sequences that covered the whole M. mycoides genome], made with four bottles of chemicals on a chemical synthesizer, starting with information and using genetic code created by a super computer. The Venterâ team [20 members team] synthesized the largest piece of DNA so far ” a million units in length ” and in making it accurate enough to substitute for the cell own DNA at cost of $40 million research. Venter's team said they worked with a synthetic version of the DNA from a small bacterium called Mycoplasma mycoides which was transplanted into another bacterium called Mycoplasma capricolum, which had most of its insides DNA removed. The new microbe came to life and began replicating in the lab dish. Specifically, the team showed that the artificially created DNAlike molecule containing six gene building nucleotides – instead of the four found in natural DNA –could support the molecular "photocopying" operation known as polymerase chain reaction. The genome Dr. Venter synthesized is copied from a natural bacterium that infects goats. 580,000 DNA units in length, of a small bacterium, Mycoplasma genitalium. His goal however was to make cells that might take carbon dioxide out of the atmosphere and produce methaneose .Replacing the genome of any bacterial cell with one from another species by transplanting a whole genome as naked DNA is however a long known method as gene cloning[3] / and or gene transfer mechanism called genome transplant. Gene cloning will result a new species[ 2] De novo synthesis of a self replicating bacterial or human DNA is here an increasingly valuable resource for a broad research and future application. Synthesis of Gene /DNA is also not new but an old concept. Synthesis of gene length (1-3Kb) DNA is however very common. The Process of Synthetic DNA construction involves the assembly of Overlapping Oligonucleotides into contiguous fragments of dsDNA using PCR based and or ligation based methods[4 ,5] or by Pair wise Selection assembly(PSA) methods for large scale long length automated synthetic DNA production more then 91Kb DNA6, where A target assembly sequence is broken down into sub-fragments that are synthesized with flanking tags .At PSA level 0, sub-fragments are inserted into one of two PSA vectors where tags activate two, diver gently oriented select-able 25-5-2010 A synthetic creation story : Nature Ne… nature.com/…/news.2010.261.html 4/markers . Level 0 sub-fragment pairs are excised so that only one activation tag is retained for each sub-fragment. Subsequent pair ligation occurs in a second PSA vector where tags activate a second set of select-able markers , producing a PSA level 1 product. This hierarchical process is repeated, switching between two vectors with different selectable markers, until the full-length product is assembled 6.Recently, recombination-based methods were also used range of applications to construct a 134-kb fragment in Bacillus subtilis and 583- Kb fragment of Saccharomyces cerevisiae Synthetic DNA (7,8 ). While synthesis of gene length DNA (13 kb) is common, the ability to quickly and cost effectively assemble longer-length DNA (>10 kb) remained of course a challenge. 256 orthologous
genes shared by the Gram-negative Haemophilus influenzae and the Gram-positive bacterial life
Mycoplasma genitalium genomes are a close approximation of a minimal gene set . The Mollicutes,
generically known as the mycoplasmas, are the best experimental platform for experimentally defining a minimal gene set. Mycoplasmas are obligate parasites that live in relatively unchanging nichesrequiring little adaptive capability. M. genitalium, a human urogenital pathogen, is the extreme manifestation of this genomic parsimony, having only 482 protein-coding genes and the smallest genome, at 580 kb, of any known free-living organism capable of being grown in axenic culture[9]
Mycoplasma genitalium has the smallest genome of any organism that can be grown in pure culture. It has a minimal metabolism and little genomic redundancy. Consequently, its genome is expected to be a close approximation to the minimal set of genes needed to sustain bacterial life. To construct synthetic DNA of Mycoplasma genetelium it is always very essential to identify and delete all the putative nonessential gene, isolation and characterization of trasposon mutants and mixture of mutant genes butpreservation and non-disruptions of DNA recombination & six DNA repair gene like recA,recU, DNA hellicase gene like ruvA, ruvB DNA Glycosylase gene mute M which excises oxidized purine from DNA and DNA damage inducible gene[10]In 1995, a team led by the trio Venter, Smith and Hutchison sequenced the 600,000-base chromosome of bacterium Mycoplasma genitalium, the smallest genome of a free-living organism. The microbe has about 500 genes, and researchers found they could delete100 individual genes without ill effect (Science, 14 February 2003, p. 1006) In 2007, Venter, Smith,Hutchison, and colleagues finally demonstrated that they could transplant natural chromosomes fromone microbial species to another (Science, 3 August 2007, p. 632). By 2008, they showed that theycould make an artificial chromosome that matched M. genitalium's but also contained "watermark"DNA sequences that would enable them to tell the synthetic genome from the natural one (Science, 29February 2008, p. 1215) The first Synthetic Virus was done in 2002 in stony brook university Newyork by a team of scientist led by Eckarde wimmr (Science, 9 August 2002, p. 1016)
The synthetic genome created by Venter's team is almost identical to that of a natural bacterium. It
was achieved at great expense; an estimated $40 million, and effort, 20 people working for more than
a decade. Dr. Venter took a first step toward this goal three years ago, showing that the natural DNA
from one bacterium could be inserted into another and that it would take over the host cell’s
operation. He said that before copying the DNA, he excised 14 genes likely to be pathogenic, so the
new bacterium, even if it escaped, would be unlikely to cause goats harm.Dr. Venter calls the result synthetic cell and is presenting the research as a landmark achievement that will open the way to creating useful microbes from scratch to make products like biofuels. At a press conference Thursday, Dr. Venter described the converted cell as “the first self replicating species weâve had on the planet Though the scientists claim for creation of artificial living cell “He has not created life, only mimicked it,â€what we want to say There remains much about the ethical issues to be solved
1] Consequence of progress in the new field of synthetic biology is an emerging view of cells as
assemblages of parts that can be put together to produce an organism with a desired phenotype
2].Over the long term, the approach will be used to synthesize increasingly novel designed genomes,
and may be a tool for bioterrorism and we need protections from military or terrorist misuse and
25-5-2010 A synthetic creation story :
3]. Will the newer synthetic biology help human mankind by detecting where is the defect lies the
human genome that give rise cancer or in formulation of new drug or vaccine?
4]. is it a step towards ... creation of living beings or artificial life with capacities and natures that could
never have naturally evolved."
5]. In Future Can some one will design for Human clone?
Nature Ne…nature.com/…/news.2010.261.html 5/7 comment 2010-05-25 08:14:52 AM Posted by: Prof. Pranab Kumar Bhattacharya
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o*Professor Pranab Kumar Bhattacharya MD(cal univ) FIC path(Ind),Professor Dept of pathology
*Rupak Bhattacharya Bsc(cal.univ )MSc(JU), **Ritwik Bhattacharya B.com(cal.Univl), **Somayak Bhattacharya BSC (HM)(IGNOU) MSc( PUSHA) - Asst Lecturer of IHM Ahemadabad India - Residences 7/51 Purbapalli,Sodepur, Kol110, ***Miss Upasana Bhattacharya - “ Only Daughter of Prof PK Bhattacharya **Dalia Mukherjee BA(hons) cal Univ, Miss Oindrila Mukherjee, Miss Ayshi Mukherjee Dr Hriday Das MD(cal.Univ ) DTM&H(cal Univ) Dr Tarun Biswas MBBS(cal Univ) Dept of Pathology
*Previously at Institute of Post Graduate Medical Education Research 244 AJC Bose Road kol-20 West Bengal, India, Now Posted as Professor&HOD of Pathology at Murshidabad District Medical College Behrampore Murshidabad West Bengal
Published online 24 May 2010 | Nature | doi:10.1038/news.2010.261
A synthetic creation story Claims of 'synthetic life' reflect only our changing conception of what life is and how it might be made, says Philip Ball. Philip Ball Last week's announcement of the 'chemical synthesis of a living organism' by Craig Venter and his colleagues at the J. Craig Venter Institute1heads up a very long tradition. Claims such as this have been made throughout history.That's not to cast aspersions on the new results. One can challenge the idea that Venter's bacterium stands apart from Darwinian evolution, modelled as it is on Mycoplasma mycoides.It is nonetheless an unprecedented triumph of biotechnological ingenuity.
But, set in a historical context, what the researchers have achieved is not so much a 'synthesis
of life' as a semi-synthetic recreation of what we currently deem life to be. And, as with
previous efforts, it should leave us questioning the adequacy of that view.
To see that the new results reiterate a perennial theme, consider the headline of the Boston
Herald in 1899: "Creation of Life. Lower Animals Produced by Chemical Means." The article
described how German biologist Jacques Loeb induced an unfertilized sea-urchin egg to divide
and develop into a larva by treating it with salts. Loeb went on to talk in earnest about "the artificial production of living matter", and he was not alone in blending his discovery with speculations about the de novo creation of life. In 1912, the physiologist Edward Albert Schäfer alluded optimistically to Loeb's results in his presidential address to the British Association, in which he expressed great optimism about "the possibility of the synthesis of living matter"2 .Such claims are commonly seen to imply that artificial human life is next on the agenda. It wasa sign of the times that the New York Times credulously reported in 1910 that, "Prof.Herrera, a Mexican scientist, has succeeded in forming a human embryo by chemical combination". It is surely no coincidence that many media reports have compared Venter to Frankenstein, or that the British newspaper The Observer mistakenly suggested he has"succeeded in 'creating' human life for the first time".
What is life?
Beliefs about the feasibility of making artificial organisms have always been governed by the
prevailing view of what life is. When the Universe was seen as an intrinsically fecund matrix,
25-5-2010 A synthetic creation story : Nature Ne…nature.com/…/news.2010.261.html 1/7“'Life' in biology,rather like 'force'in physics, is aterm carried over from a time when scientists thought quite differently,when it served as a makes hift bridge over the inexplicable.”permitting bees and vermin to emerge from rotten flesh by spontaneous generation, it seemed natural to imagine that sentient beings might issue forth from insensate matter. Mechanical models of biology developed during the seventeenth century fostered the idea that a 'spark of life' — after the discovery of electricity, literally that — might animate a suitably arranged assembly of organic parts. The blossoming of chemistry and evolutionary theory in the nineteenth century, meanwhile, spurred a conviction that it was all about getting the recipe right, so that nature's diverse grandeur sprung from primordial colloidal jelly called protoplasm. Yet each apparent leap forwards in this endeavor more or less coincided with a realization that the problem is not so simple. Protoplasm appeared as organic chemists were beginning to erode the concept of vital ism and to appreciate the baffling constitution of organic matter. The claims of Loeb and Schäfer came just before tools for visualizing the sub cellular world began to show the incredible complexity of life's micro structure. And it was the same story for the next big splash in 'making life', when in 1953 Harold Urey and Stanley Miller announced their celebrated 'prebiotic soup' experiment, in which they conjured amino acids from simple raw materials. Some press reports regarded this as a new genesis, in principle if not in practice. Yet that same year saw the game-changing discovery oflife's informational basis in the work of Crick and Watson. Now life was not so much about molecules, but about cracking, and perhaps then rewriting, the genetic code.No more codes Which brings us to Venter et al. Now that the field of genomics has fostered the belief that in sequencing genomes we are reading a 'book of life', it's easy to see why 'booting up' a wholly synthetic genome in a bacterial host should be popularly deemed a synthesis of life itself. Here the membranes, the cytoplasm — everything except the genes — are mere peripherals to the hard drive of life, whose algorithmic instructions need only be rejigged to produce new organisms. But this latest work should encourage us to lay aside the very concepts of an 'artificial organism'and a 'synthesis of life'. Life is not a thing one makes, nor is it even a process that arises or is set in motion. It is a property we may chooseto bestow, more or less colloquially, on certain organizations of matter.25-5-2010 A synthetic creation story : Nature News…nature.com/…/news.2010.261.html 2/7#10725
Comment No#10725
Title"Synthetic DNA and artificial cell – what are the ethical issues its application in the
real life and in human disease at cost of 400 million dollars Research"
Authors
o*Professor Pranab Kumar Bhattacharya MD(cal) FIC path(Ind),Professor Dept of pathology
oRupak Bhattacharya Bsc(cal)MSc(JU), Ritwik Bhattacharya B.com(cal), Somayak Bhattacharya MBA 7/51 Purbapalli,Sodepur, Kol110, Miss Upasana Bhattacharya – daughter of Prof PK Bhattacharya Dr. Avisnata Das MBBs(cal) Dalia Mukherjee BA(hons) cal Miss Oindrila Mukherjee, Mrs Chandrani Dutta BSC(Zoology)* Dr Hriday Das MD(cal) DTM&H(cal) *Dr Tarun Biswas MBBS(cal) Dept of Pathology
*Institute of Post Graduate Medical Education Research 244a AJC Bose Road kol-20 West Bengal,
India
25-5-2010 A synthetic creation story : Nature Ne… nature.com/…/news.2010.261.html 3/7 India
Artificial life is a field of study and an associated art form which examine systems related to life, its
processes, and its evolution through simulations using computer models, robotics, and biochemistry.
There are three main kinds of artificial life named for their approaches: soft from software; hard , from hardware; and wet, from biochemistry molecules. Artificial life imitates traditional biology by trying to recreate biological phenomena. Artificial life has had a controversial history. John Maynard Smith11 criticized certain artificial life work in 1994 as "fact-free science". However, the recent publication of artificial life articles in widely read world’s top impact factor and coveted science journals such as Science and Nature is evident that artificial life techniques are becoming more accepted in the mainstreamas synthetic biology, at least as a method of studying Darwin’s Chemical evolution. Synthetic and self replicating DNA or RNA is part of such an artificial life and tool for studying evolution of life in earth. Evolving such an artificial DNA in laboratory was thus for long years before attempt of research since Watson and Crick Double Helix. The artificial DNA-like molecule directed the synthesis of copies of itself and then copies of the copies, mimicking the natural process of evolution as it was first outlined by Charles Darwin. A polynucleotide is a building block of DNA, or a "letter" in the genetic alphabet used to write the "book" describing our genetic inheritance. The first Synthetic Virus was done in 2002 in stony brook university Newyork by a team of scientist led by Eckarde wimmr (Science, 9 August 2002, p. 1016) Benner and Michael Sismour- two Graduate student of university of California in 2004 first made a synthetic DNA of 12 nucleotides of a virus but it could not however copied itself. In 2010, The first synthetic and self replicating DNA /cell as a bacterium has been claimed by Professor Dr C J Venter of J. Craig Venter Institute (JCVI) in Rockville, Maryland, and San Diego, California, [ He was best known for his work with the Human Genome Project] is successful and same is published in journal the science[ 1]. The cell is claimed totally derived from a synthetic chromosome [They bought it from a company more than 1000 -1080-base sequences that covered the whole M. mycoides genome], made with four bottles of chemicals on a chemical synthesizer, starting with information and using genetic code created by a super computer. The Venterâ team [20 members team] synthesized the largest piece of DNA so far ” a million units in length ” and in making it accurate enough to substitute for the cell own DNA at cost of $40 million research. Venter's team said they worked with a synthetic version of the DNA from a small bacterium called Mycoplasma mycoides which was transplanted into another bacterium called Mycoplasma capricolum, which had most of its insides DNA removed. The new microbe came to life and began replicating in the lab dish. Specifically, the team showed that the artificially created DNAlike molecule containing six gene building nucleotides – instead of the four found in natural DNA –could support the molecular "photocopying" operation known as polymerase chain reaction. The genome Dr. Venter synthesized is copied from a natural bacterium that infects goats. 580,000 DNA units in length, of a small bacterium, Mycoplasma genitalium. His goal however was to make cells that might take carbon dioxide out of the atmosphere and produce methaneose .Replacing the genome of any bacterial cell with one from another species by transplanting a whole genome as naked DNA is however a long known method as gene cloning[3] / and or gene transfer mechanism called genome transplant. Gene cloning will result a new species[ 2] De novo synthesis of a self replicating bacterial or human DNA is here an increasingly valuable resource for a broad research and future application. Synthesis of Gene /DNA is also not new but an old concept. Synthesis of gene length (1-3Kb) DNA is however very common. The Process of Synthetic DNA construction involves the assembly of Overlapping Oligonucleotides into contiguous fragments of dsDNA using PCR based and or ligation based methods[4 ,5] or by Pair wise Selection assembly(PSA) methods for large scale long length automated synthetic DNA production more then 91Kb DNA6, where A target assembly sequence is broken down into sub-fragments that are synthesized with flanking tags .At PSA level 0, sub-fragments are inserted into one of two PSA vectors where tags activate two, diver gently oriented select-able 25-5-2010 A synthetic creation story : Nature Ne… nature.com/…/news.2010.261.html 4/markers . Level 0 sub-fragment pairs are excised so that only one activation tag is retained for each sub-fragment. Subsequent pair ligation occurs in a second PSA vector where tags activate a second set of select-able markers , producing a PSA level 1 product. This hierarchical process is repeated, switching between two vectors with different selectable markers, until the full-length product is assembled 6.Recently, recombination-based methods were also used range of applications to construct a 134-kb fragment in Bacillus subtilis and 583- Kb fragment of Saccharomyces cerevisiae Synthetic DNA (7,8 ). While synthesis of gene length DNA (13 kb) is common, the ability to quickly and cost effectively assemble longer-length DNA (>10 kb) remained of course a challenge. 256 orthologous
genes shared by the Gram-negative Haemophilus influenzae and the Gram-positive bacterial life
Mycoplasma genitalium genomes are a close approximation of a minimal gene set . The Mollicutes,
generically known as the mycoplasmas, are the best experimental platform for experimentally defining a minimal gene set. Mycoplasmas are obligate parasites that live in relatively unchanging nichesrequiring little adaptive capability. M. genitalium, a human urogenital pathogen, is the extreme manifestation of this genomic parsimony, having only 482 protein-coding genes and the smallest genome, at 580 kb, of any known free-living organism capable of being grown in axenic culture[9]
Mycoplasma genitalium has the smallest genome of any organism that can be grown in pure culture. It has a minimal metabolism and little genomic redundancy. Consequently, its genome is expected to be a close approximation to the minimal set of genes needed to sustain bacterial life. To construct synthetic DNA of Mycoplasma genetelium it is always very essential to identify and delete all the putative nonessential gene, isolation and characterization of trasposon mutants and mixture of mutant genes butpreservation and non-disruptions of DNA recombination & six DNA repair gene like recA,recU, DNA hellicase gene like ruvA, ruvB DNA Glycosylase gene mute M which excises oxidized purine from DNA and DNA damage inducible gene[10]In 1995, a team led by the trio Venter, Smith and Hutchison sequenced the 600,000-base chromosome of bacterium Mycoplasma genitalium, the smallest genome of a free-living organism. The microbe has about 500 genes, and researchers found they could delete100 individual genes without ill effect (Science, 14 February 2003, p. 1006) In 2007, Venter, Smith,Hutchison, and colleagues finally demonstrated that they could transplant natural chromosomes fromone microbial species to another (Science, 3 August 2007, p. 632). By 2008, they showed that theycould make an artificial chromosome that matched M. genitalium's but also contained "watermark"DNA sequences that would enable them to tell the synthetic genome from the natural one (Science, 29February 2008, p. 1215) The first Synthetic Virus was done in 2002 in stony brook university Newyork by a team of scientist led by Eckarde wimmr (Science, 9 August 2002, p. 1016)
The synthetic genome created by Venter's team is almost identical to that of a natural bacterium. It
was achieved at great expense; an estimated $40 million, and effort, 20 people working for more than
a decade. Dr. Venter took a first step toward this goal three years ago, showing that the natural DNA
from one bacterium could be inserted into another and that it would take over the host cell’s
operation. He said that before copying the DNA, he excised 14 genes likely to be pathogenic, so the
new bacterium, even if it escaped, would be unlikely to cause goats harm.Dr. Venter calls the result synthetic cell and is presenting the research as a landmark achievement that will open the way to creating useful microbes from scratch to make products like biofuels. At a press conference Thursday, Dr. Venter described the converted cell as “the first self replicating species weâve had on the planet Though the scientists claim for creation of artificial living cell “He has not created life, only mimicked it,â€what we want to say There remains much about the ethical issues to be solved
1] Consequence of progress in the new field of synthetic biology is an emerging view of cells as
assemblages of parts that can be put together to produce an organism with a desired phenotype
2].Over the long term, the approach will be used to synthesize increasingly novel designed genomes,
and may be a tool for bioterrorism and we need protections from military or terrorist misuse and
25-5-2010 A synthetic creation story :
3]. Will the newer synthetic biology help human mankind by detecting where is the defect lies the
human genome that give rise cancer or in formulation of new drug or vaccine?
4]. is it a step towards ... creation of living beings or artificial life with capacities and natures that could
never have naturally evolved."
5]. In Future Can some one will design for Human clone?
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Emergence of antibiotic-resistant bacterial strains,methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus, extendedspectrum beta lactamases, and multi-drug resistance is a problem similar to global warming
Revista da Sociedade Brasileira de Medicina Tropical 47(6):815-816, Nov-Dec, 2014
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Running Title -: Bhattacharya PK – MRSA problem is similar to global warming
Address to: Dr. Pranab Kumar Bhattacharya. Dept. of Pathology/District
Medical College. Station Road 742101 Berhampore, Murshidabad,
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Emergence of antibiotic-resistant bacterial strains,methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus, extended spectrum beta lactamases, and multi-drug resistance is a problem similar to global warming
Pranab Kumar Bhattacharya[1]
[1]. Department of Pathology, Murshidabad District Medical College, Berhampore, Murshidabad, West Bengal, India.
Dear Editor,
I recently read the article by Porto et al. entitled Active surveillance to determine the impact of methicillin resistance on mortality in patients with bacteremia and influences of the use of antibiotics on the development of MRSA infection, published in Revista da Sociedade Brasileira de Medicina Tropical/Journal of the Brazilian Society of Tropical Medicine[1].
Methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus (MRSA) is a major pathogen worldwide in modern health care-associated infections. Within 1 year of introducing methicillin in clinical practice, MRSA strains were first detected in 1961 in Britain, followed by Denmark in 1963, and subsequently other parts of the world. MRSA is associated with increased morbidity and mortality from sepsis and rapidly develops multi-drug resistance (MDR). In a hospital-based study at Kolkata metro City by the author, MRSA showed in vitro drug resistance to co-trimoxazole (33%), erythromycin (75%), penicillin (22%), oxacillin (11%), ciprofloxacin (84%), mupirocin (8%), rifampicin (17%), and methicillin (85%); and MRSA also showed in vitro sensitivity to clindamycin (90%), cefotaxin (99%), vancomycin (100%) and linezolid (100%). Linezolid and vancomycin have been clinically used as reliable last resort drugs for MRSA treatment. Since 1997, vancomycin-intermediate and -resistant S. aureus and linezolid-resistant strains of S. aureus have been
reported[2,3]. Data on linezolid resistance from Asian countries, especially from the Indian subcontinent, are extremely rare, and Chakraborty et al.[4 ]found only a single case of linezolid resistant MRSA in a 33-year-old male patient with non-healing ulcers in a tertiary care medical college using polymerase chain reaction (PCR) to detect: I) mutations in the domain V region of one or more of the five copies of the 23S recombinant deoxyribonucleic acid (rDNA) gene; II) acquisition of the plasmid-mediated ribosomal methyl transferase Cfr gene, and III) deletion/mutation in the ribosomal protein L3 of peptidyl transferase center[5].
The prevalence of MRSA has increased in most private health care institutions, including Kolkata City of West Bengal, India, where it increased from 6.9% in 1988, to 54% in 2003, to 63% in 2013, varying from 8% to 71% across India[6].Resistance is due to an altered penicillin binding protein encoded by the mecA gene. MRSA can be confirmed using multiplex PCR-based detection of the mecA2 gene using the ATA3` mecA1 forward (5`GTAGAAATGACTGAACGTCCG) and reverse(5`CCATTCCACATTGTTTC) primers, as well as the oxacillin disk diffusion (ODD) and cefoxitin disk diffusion (CDD) tests.
Although considered the gold standard for MRSA diagnosis, PCR for the mecA gene is costly and requires a skilled technician; thus, many tertiary care hospitals and even medical colleges or private centers in West Bengal cannot afford to routinely perform PCR. ODD has a sensitivity of 97%, specificity of 95%, and an effectiveness of 97%; and CDD has sensitivity, specificity, and effectiveness of 100% for the diagnosis of MRSA infection when compared with PCR for mecA. In Kolkata, common causative organisms of hospital-acquired infections are Staphylococcus aureus, Streptococcus viridans, aerobic gram-negative bacilli such as Pseudomonas aeruginosa, Escherichia coli, and other MDR gram-negative organisms, including Acinobacter,
Klebsiella, E. coli, Salmonella, and extended spectrum beta lactamase (ESBL) enterobacteriaceae (E. coli and Klebsiella; prevalence,62-100%), and S. aureus, responsible for various mild to serious infections in multiple hospital units, leading to a higher median total hospital cost, longer hospital stay after infection (mean 22.9 days6), fatal sepsis, and death (mean 84%5). MRSA and methicillin-sensitive S. aureus strains with quinolone resistance have also been reported from an eye care hospital in Bhubaneswar, India7,8. Community-associated MRSA(CAMRSA) currently comprises 40-60% of all nosocomial S. aureus infections and cause sepsis at many centers worldwide, is one of the most prevalent significant pathogens, and causes a variety of infections from mild skin and soft tissue infections and necrotizing fasciitis to fatal sepsis. In one of our studies, when 336 individuals in the community were randomly screened from their deeper nasal cavity for persistence of S. auerus, the first 136 subjects showed no MRSA, whereas in the next 200 subjects, only 11%showed MRSA. In another study from Wardha, India, of 280 CAMRSA samples, 51.8% had the mecA gene[5]. CAMRSA colonizes the anterior nares, and nasal carriage of S. aureus acts as an endogenous reservoir for clinical infections in colonized individuals or as a source of cross colonization for community-based infections. Nasal S. auerus colonization is an important risk factor for life-threatening infections of the carrier. In our CAMRSA study, the overall incidence of S. aureus was 12-28%, even in healthy subjects: a higher prevalence may occur in overcrowded and slum areas.MRSA results in surgical site infection, non-healing ulcer, necrotizing fasciitis, pneumonia, urinary tract infection, and central venous catheter-associated infections. Due to use of previous third-generation antibiotics in critical care units, coagulase-negative staphylococci cause major infections, followed by Klebsiella pneumoniae, Pseudomonas aeruginosa, and non-albicans Candida -producing bio films in urinary catheters; nasogastric, parenteral nutrition, and tracheostomytubes; and mechanical ventilators. Risk factors and mortality rate are always higher with MRSA infection. Comorbid conditions that act as risk factors include cancer, heart disease, nephropathy, diabetes mellitus, chronic obstructive pulmonary disease, polytrauma, dyslipidemia, human immunodeficiency virus, cystic fibrosis, hepatitis, pulmonary emphysema, dialysis,and tobacco and marijuana smoking.
In 210 samples the neonatal intensive care unit of a tertiary care public hospital in Kolkata, the most common isolated bacteria causing sepsis (all with a high C-reactive protein value) included Klebsiella (42.3%), MRSA (32.1%), and coagulase-negative staphylococci (11.1%). Of the 44 MRSA infection cases, 2-15% showed resistance to amikacin, gentamycin, cloxacillin, ofloxacin, amoxicillin/clavulanic acid, levofloxacin, cefotaxine, and co-trimoxazole, in addition to vancomycin(100%)[ 4.]
Today, the persistent, indiscriminate, and inappropriate use of antibiotics and the increasing specter of antibiotic resistance are an emerging critical situation for healthcare. This situation needs immediate action with current anti-infective therapies in West Bengal. MDR organisms will continue to increase unless clinicians in most care hospitals and private practices improve the rational use of antibiotics. The matter is rendered increasingly complicated due to the presence of ESBL and carbapenamase-producing organisms due to the blinded use of third and fourth-generation antibiotics. The potential for misuse and abuse of antibiotics was recognized shortly after their introduction into West Bengal; this may have been further escalated by failure to obtain appropriate culture and in vitro sensitivity reports for lower respiratory and urinary tract infections and pus. Meropenem or tazobactam is routinely used as the choice first-line antibiotic in most private care hospitals and nursing homes and for some doctor’s prescriptions; this is due to kickbacks in the form of monetary commissions from pharmacy houses. We need urgent implementation of an effective antibiotic policy, and the basis of that policy rests on generating microbiological data and prescription audits through electronic prescriptions to be introduced to all public and private health care institutes(where approximately 60% of antimicrobial use is inappropriate) or at any geographical location where drug resistance has developed.
Antibiotic resistance is no less a problem than global warming. Moreover, the overuse of antibiotics causes the emergence of bacterial resistance and increases healthcare costs and sepsis-related deaths. We propose the development of a new global organization to lead the battle against antibiotic resistant
pathogens and call for this organization to be modeled on the organization created to combat global warming, the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change. This organization would be comprised of specialists in clinical and pathological medicine and include epidemiologists, microbiologists, pharmacologists, health economists, and international lawyers.
ACKNOWLEDGMENTS-:
The author acknowledges the following individuals for their help to carry out the work : Miss Upasana Bhattacharya,- only daughter of Prof. Dr. Pranab Kr Bhattacharya * Mr .Rupak Bhattacharya, * Mr Ritwik Bhattacharya, * Miss Rupsa Bhattacharya, * Mr. Hindole Mukherjee, ** Mrs Dalia Mukherjee, ** Miss Oindrila Mukherjee, ** Miss Ayishi Mukherjee, *** Dr. Arya Sen and ***Prof. Pratip Kundu.
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Authors’ reply: Emergence of antibiotic-resistant bacterialstrains, methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus andextended spectrum β-lactamases, and multi-drug resistance
are problems similar to global warming
Juliana Pena Porto[1], Deivid Willian da Fonseca Batistão[2] and Rosineide Marques Ribas[2]
[1]. Faculdade de Medicina, Universidade Federal de Uberlândia, Uberlândia, MG. [2]. Programa de Pós-Graduação em Imunologia e Parasitologia Aplicadas,
Universidade de Uberlândia, Uberlândia, MG.ly
Monday, 24 November 2014
What is new in eliminating Visceral Leishmaniasis (VL) in India? Published at BMJ as Letter 21 November 2014
By Professor Pranab Kumar Bhattacharya MD(Cal.Univ) FICPath, WBMES
Visceral Leishmaniasis (VL) is a fatal disease characterized by irregular fever, weight loss, hepato-splenomegaly and anemia. 90% of VL cases occur in India, Nepal, and Bangladesh and in Brazil. Each year 500,000 new cases occur worldwide and 50,000 die of VL. The disease is grossly under reported in India, and about 100,000 cases are estimated to occur annually in the state of Bihar, with West Bengal accounting for than 90% of cases in India. The disease is endemic in the eastern part of India mainly in 31 districts of Bihar, 4 districts of Jharkhand, 11 districts of West Bengal and in Eastern Uttar Pradesh. The epidemic of VL usually recurs every 15 years in India (two post independence big epidemics were in 1997 and 1992). Though VL was eliminated from the state of Assam it is reported to be re-emerging as sporadic cases and also as outbreaks. There are also emerging epidemic sites of cuteneous leishmaniasis in Himachal Pradesh (along the Salute River Valley) and Rajasthan, where the ausative agent is L. tropica and the dog is the reservoir of the parasite .Elsewhere in India, untreated VL and PKDL is the reservoir of the parasite. In 2008, when blood samples were tested by PCR from human, goats, cows and buffalos in VL epidemic areas of Nepal, 6% of humans and 16% of goats were found to be harbours of Leismania DNA.
RK 39 immunochromatographic strip tests using a drop of the patient’s blood is a major breakthrough in diagnosing VL. Strip testing of the patient’s urine with the same strip test is as good as blood testing and the test can be done by peripheral field workers. However, a new latex agglutination test (KA Tex) has come to the market for detection of leishmania antigen in the urine of VL patients and has been tested in Indian and Nepalese VL patients. This test has good specificity (90-100%) but sensitivity varies (50-90%). KA Tex becomes positive in 87% of cases and at the end of treatment 3% remain positive.
rK28 is another antigen introduced as a candidate for serological diagnosis of VL. In Micro ELISA format, the sensitivity is 99.6% and specificity in endemic, non endemic healthy and disease controls is 94-100%. A novel L Donovan antigen 37KD protein (BHuP2) has a sensitivity of 94% whereas specificity in different control groups is 97%-100%. In a sophisticated laboratory PCR for DNA or RNA gene is a powerful tool for diagnosis of VL.
The advantages are
* Detection of very low level parasitemia
* Prediction of Cure
* Identification of strain and VL/HIV co-infection.
PCR can be performed in peripheral blood, lymph nodes, skin and urine. Urine based PCR shows 96% sensitivity and 100% specificity. Oligochromatography provides a rapid dipstick format for detection of PCR products. PCR products can be visualized on dipstick testing by hybridization with gold conjugated probe allowing species specific PCR product detection. This test takes 5-10 minutes and requires no instruments other than a water bath and a pipette.
The orally effective drug miltefosine has revolutionized the treatment of VL. A multi center pivotal phase III study established a cure rate of 94%. Following this a phase IV study was done in which 1132 patients were enrolled and the final cure rate was 82%. The real problem with miltefosine is that it is resistance prone as it has a very long half life of 150-200 hours, so that a tail of low level drug persists for long periods. Moreover it is teratogenic.
Sitmaquinnine developed by Walter Reed Army Research US is 8 amino quinine and has high antileishmanial activity. But there is a lack of linear co-relation between dose of drug and cure rate. In phase II study in India 89% were cured with 28 days of 1.75 mg/kg body wt/day sitamaquine. Peculiarly higher doses are not effective and nephropathy can develop.
WHO, Institute of One world health and the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation have successfully resurrected paramomycin as the cheapest effective anti-leismanial drug. A phase III trial has been completed in India. Treatmen is once a day im injection 15mg/Kg for 21 days. Result showed it non inferior to amphotericin B (1mg/kg IV infusions on alternate days to a total of 15 infusions) with a final cure rate of 94% versus 99%. None of the patients developed nephrotoxicity or permanent ototoxicity. The only adverse effect was a 3 fold rise in ALT level in 6% patients. So monitoring of LFT must be done in VL; such monitoring is available in India at a reasonable cost.
Combination chemotherapy may be the future strategy in present scenario of emerging drug resistance - even against amphotericin B. Increasing rates of relapse are seen in all kinds of VL drugs. The benefits of combination therapy are:
* Synergistic activity
* Preventing drug resistance
* Lowering dose requirements
* Reducing side effects - thus increasing efficiency and therapeutic life span of existing anti kala-azar drugs.
Liposomal Amphotericin B 5mg/kg + 7 days Miltofosine or single dose Liposomal Amphotericin B 5mg/kg + 10 days Paramomycin or 10 days Miltofocin + Paramomycin may be now choice of therapy of VL
Acknowledgement to Author is grateful for contributions while doing this work and publishing it in journal BMJ as Rapid Responses to following
*Miss Upasana Bhattacharya, **Mr. Rupak Bhattacharya ** Mr. Ritwik Bhattacharya ** Miss Rupsa Bhattacharya *** Mrs Dalihia Mukherjee , ***Miss Oindrila Mukherjee *** Mr.Debasis Mukherjee*** Miss Ayshi Mukherjee and **Mr. Hindole Mukherjee
* Daughter of Prof PKBHattacharya & Student ** of residence 7/51 Purbapalli PO-Sodepur, Dist- 24 parganas(north) Kolkata-70110 West Bengal India; *** Swamiji Nagar . South Habra, Dist- 24 parganas(north) , Kolkata - West Bengal India
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is Tachyon Faster than Light Particle- Does it exist in our Universe.
Tachyon- Faster than Light Particle Exist in Our Universe or an Imaginary Mathematical Particle
http://www.openscienceonline.com/journal/archive?journalId=703
Authors are
http://www.openscienceonline.com/journal/archive?journalId=703
Authors are
* Mr. Rupak Bhattacharya-Bsc(calcutta. University ) Msc math(Jadavpur University), of Residance 7/51purbapalli, Sodepur, Dist.- 24 Parganas(north), Kol-110,West Bengal,India**Professor (Dr.) Pranab kumar Bhattacharya- MD (calcuuta.University), FICPath(India) WBMES, Professor and Head of Pathology, School of Tropical MedicineKolkata- 108 CR avenue Kolkata-70073West Bengal, India ** Miss Upasana Bhattacharya- Student, Mahamayatala, Garia,
kolkata-84, only daughter of Prof.P.K Bhattacharya,* Mr.Ritwik Bhattacharya B.com(Calcutta .Univ), *Miss Rupsa
Bhattacharya of Residence 7/51 Purbapalli, Sodepur, Dist.- 24 parganas(north) ,
Kolkata-110,WestBengal, India **** Mrs. Dalia Mukherjee BA(honours) Calcutta University of Residence Swamiji Road, South Habra, 24 Parganas(north),
West Bengal, India**** Miss Oaindrila Mukherjee- Bsc ( HM)IGNOU Student ,****
Miss Aiyshi Mukherjee of
Residance Swamiji Road, South Habra, 24 Parganas(north), West Bengal, India; Mr
Hindole Chakravorty of 7/51 Purbapalli
Po-Sodepur Dist 24 parganas(north) Kolkata-110
Particle Physics and the mysteries of the early Universe
Over 13 billion years ago, the Big Bang moment ( Planck’s moment or Plancks Time ) gave birth
to our observable Universe, creating
space, time, energy and matter. To understand the laws of the universe,
particle physicists wanted to recreate conditions of less of billionth of a second after the Big Bang moment and that
could be can be done by accelerator. There are many such accelerators. One of
such was Large Hadron collider or LHC. At LHC,
particles were smashing almost at near speed of Light(c) following Einstein
Theory E=mc2 and Protons
smashing together can produce all sorts of particles, seen in the earliest
moments of the universe i. e E = hn where h = Plank constant Particle-wave
equivalence. Proton is in particle
physics also nothing but hadrons. Protons when
accelerated by 7 trillion volts, travel at 0.999999991 speed of light and smashed
together 600 million times/sec will produce tremendous energy
[TOTAL ENERGY STORED in LHC
superconducting magnets is : 10 GJ i. e
[350 m J stored energy means 10000 tons of snow, sliding down 100 meter]and there to be required many
magnets cooled to 1.9 K, colder than
outer space
About particles and Sub atomic particles creation
and our universe _:
| For the longest time as history records,
science has held that all matter is composed of fundamental building blocks.
Even though they could not see it physically , the ancient Greeks for example
presumed that a stone could be ground up into finer and finer grains until it
reached single indivisible points of matter which they called it átomos,
meaning “un-cuttable”. Their suspicions proved later correct, as some
two-and-a-half-thousand years later, scientists in the early 20th
century discovered that indivisible unit and named it” the atom”. This naming
turned out to be rather premature as
it was later found that these atoms
could be further broken into smaller particles, namely the protons, neutrons
and electrons. But that was not the end of the tale. Over the following
decades next particle accelerator experiments revealed there to be large
number of, what were labeled, sub-atomic particles. This gave birth to a new
branch of science called it “Particle
physics”. As time passed and more and more particles were discovered, it
became then clear that something was a miss with these ‘fundamental’ units of
our universe. Their numbers ran into tens then to over a hundred. Could
nature be so complicated? A study of their properties and interactions led to
the idea that many of these were made up of still smaller units. This led to
the discovery of six types of quarks particles and anti quarks, which are
said to compose protons, neutrons and other particles like W bosons, Muons,
Tau particles Z particles, Neutrinos, pions, poseelectrons, gluons gravitons,
higgs particles etc. While it is true that a large number of particles might pose a philosophical problem, a more fundamental problem must be the way in which they are said to interact. In the world of particle physics, matter is constantly flashing in and out of existence as new particles are created and destroyed. And while this process may seem strange, it is stranger still that many of these interactions appear to occur without regard to mass conservation. Let we take muons is for example. What are these Muons?_: Muons are charged particles that are primarily generated as a result of cosmic bombardment in the upper atmosphere of the earth. They are mostly negatively charged and can be thought of as heavy but unstable electrons. Muons have a short half-life of 2.2 microseconds, after which they decay into an electron and a couple of neutrinos. The decay process of muons can be like this and there is a muon neutrinos: ![]() This reaction is however known to all and it obeys the charge conservation rule in that both muon and electron have an equal negative charge while the neutrinos are neutral. But a muon is 206 times heavier rest mass than an electron is and the neutrinos was considered weigh almost nothing (or next to nothing but it has mass what ever neglizable, it carries also a mass of 17,000 electron volts (kev ).] The question is where did all that mass go? According to most modern physics theory , mass must either be conserved or converted to an equivalent amount of energy, determined via the E=mc2 equation. This energy must be released in the form of electromagnetic radiation, i.e. as photons. But there is no evidences found in the standard texts that photons are released during this process of above equations. Actually to us, the above equations is incomplete before the present authors here because there should also be a W– boson particle involved there. This W– particle weighs in at 157 thousand times heavier than an electron and quickly flashes in-and-out of existence while creating the electron and one of the neutrinos. Here again is another apparent violation of mass conservation, and a huge one at that! But since it quickly disappears, we could give it the benefit of doubt and say that it causes no overall conservation problem. One possibility for mass conservation may have to do with neutrino momentum. we shall discuss this further on. Pions The next question has to do with where muons come from. Muons come from a pion decay, which in turn are generated from high-energy proton collisions in the upper atmosphere. The pion to muon conversion process looks like this: ![]() Again there is a temporary intermediate W particle involved which we have not shown in above equation. The pion again has a mass of 273 electrons which is only slightly above the muon (at 206) and there are no photons in our sight. Hence again we have a mass conservation problem, albeit only minor. Ignoring the various neutrinos then, the complete process goes something like this: ![]() Notice here something a miss? That’s right: the positive proton yields a negative pion! This is surely impossible to you according to charge conservation rules. Now to be fair, the interaction is not stated in full like this. Various literatures on the subject discuss the pion/muon and muon/electron decays separately and each decay process shown preserves charge correctly. But when it comes to the full process the present modern literature search becomes somewhat vague, particularly in regard to the pion’s charge. When a cosmic ray proton impacts atomic nuclei of air atoms in the upper atmosphere, pions are created. These decay within a relatively short distance (meters) into muons (the pion's preferred decay product), and neutrinos. The above excerpt does not say what charge these pions have except they are somehow created from protons. Since protons are positive this indicates the created pions must also be positive, in which case they could not decay into negative muons. The webpage from SLAC helps clear this up when it says In cosmic ray showers, both muons and antimuons are produced about equally. That’s good. With equal amounts of muons (negative) and anti muons (positive), charge is conserved. But where went than all these anti muons? If they are produced in equal numbers and have equal half-lives, we should observe them equally at sea level. Instead the literature indicates a vast abundance of muons only. An explanation of pion/muon conversions-: The above raises many questions to us!. Does the cosmic proton convert directly to pions? or does it create the pions as part of a collision, while preserving its own existence? And what happened to all that mass? Did the mighty cosmic proton convert itself to a puny electron without releasing the required amount of radiation to account for mass difference? Given the laws of uncertainty principal over the charge conservation problem in pion creation, it is understandable that the available literature is somewhat vague on details. However we authors believe there is a better explanation for the above reactions that not only preserves charge and mass, but also does away with these mysterious particle disappearance and creation-out-of-nothing conjectures. Start with the proton., A proton is believed to be made up of two up-quarks (positive) and one down-quark (negative). Is it possible that these quarks are rather really the pions and muons we observe? I.e., is the negative muon really a down-quark and the positive pion an up-quark? According to scientists, protons are essentially unbreakable and quarks can never be seen on their own. But this seems unlikely. If a proton is made of several parts, and you hit it hard enough, e.g. in a high-energy cosmic collisions, then surely those parts would separate. Scientists have declared that quarks have fractional charges” colors” and, given that we’ve never seen a fractional charge, we’ve obviously never seen a broken proton. This idea of fractional charges was initially introduced to explain the composition of the neutron purely in terms of quarks. But as pointed out in the previously, neutrons can be more easily explained in terms of a proton joined to an electron. Could it be that quarks in fact have unit charges and have been hiding in plain sight all along? With this idea in mind, let us assume that our proton has just smashed into some part of the atmosphere, e.g. a nitrogen nucleus, and has split into three quarks: two positive and one negative. What now? . There it was postulated than an electron and positron can overlap, creating an effectively invisible composite particle, which may be called a poseltron. Could a similar event be happening here? The positive quarks are surrounded by electrons. They could quickly absorb one each and become an ‘invisible’ neutral particle. The pions have apparently decayed! But the down-quark is negative and cannot absorb electrons so it continues down. This is the muon we see. What will happen to it – will it absorb a positron and also disappear? Perhaps, but this is unlikely because there are few positrons to be had; they’ve already been absorbed by available electrons and become poseltrons. Here’s instead what happens. The high-velocity muon collides with a poseltron. This causes the electron-positron pair to split. The positron is absorbed into the muon and the electron is ejected. The muon ‘decayed’ into an electron. Of course the muon is still there but as it’s now overlapping a positron, it forms a particle of neutral charge and can no longer be seen. Here’s the full process in picture form [ Figure-1] ![]() As can be seen, no fundamental particles have been created or destroyed, while charge and mass are conserved throughout. Some points on pion/muon lifespan and mass -:The pion has a much shorter lifespan than a muon: about 85 times shorter (0.026 vs. 2.2 microseconds). Based on the above, that’s to be expected. Electrons are everywhere and will quickly be absorbed by a pion. But poseltrons and positrons are rare. Hence a pion will only last a few hundred metres before being absorbed, whereas a muon can often make it all the way to sea level. If a muon is really a down quark this means a down-quark weighs around 206 electron masses, i.e. about one ninth of a proton. Since there are also two up-quarks in a proton this means that an up-quark should weigh (1836-206)/2 = 815 electron masses. There’s a problem here because a pion reportedly weighs only 273 electron masses. So either I’m way out on the assumptions or there’s something fishy about the way a pion’s mass is measured.
Neutrinos _:Now some discussion needs to be made about these ghost particles “ Neutrinos” because
we have ignored them in the above interactions. Neutrinos are neutral
particles emitted during certain decay processes such as neutron decay and
the pion and muon decays described above.. The existence of neutrinos
particle was first postulated by
Wolfgang Pauli NL in 1930s to explain why electrons when leaving a
nucleus in the form of beta radiation move more slowly than it is expected. They were later observed/confirmed
in bubble chamber experiments. There
are broadly three (3) species of ‘Neutrinos”. I) Electron neutrinos 2) Muon neutrinos 3)
tat neutrinos. During first
half of twentieth century, physicists were convinced that all stars including
our Sun, shines by converting, deep in its interior, hydrogen into helium.
According to this theory, 4 hydrogen nuclei called protons (p) are changed
in solar interior into a helium
nucleus (4He), two anti-electrons (e+),
positively charged electrons), and two elusive and very mysterious ghostly particles called
neutrinos
í to r electron volts. But the scientists
found that this wooly mammoth allegedly carries also a mass of 17,000 electron
volts (kev). By Radioactive beta decay process- a process in which an
unstable nucleus in radioactive
isotopes emits both an electron and a neutrino, of decay of electrons. Rupak & I recorded the energy of decay
electrons by sending them into a crystal where they knock other electrons
creating a current that provided a measure of energy where a big 17Kev
regularly appeared, taken from the energy of a few electrons. The energy was
then obvious 17 Kev neutrinos and 1% of their emitted neutrinos belonged to
heavy neutrinos. Neutrinos can pass
through entire Earth almost near or at speed of
light without leaving a trace and it is immune to many of forces that bind
matter including electromagnetic forces.
But obviously faster than speed of light? So! They have almost never been observed
outside the controlled environment of big accelerator laboratories of USA & CERN
in Europe. Neutrinos are even more
common in universe then photons (light particles), only because
probably Big Bang left a sea of very
low energy neutrinos that permeated every corner of this Cosmos. In 30th
march 2006 from the US laboratory “ Fermi lab” reported first result from a
neutrinos experiment Called “MINOS”( Main injector neutrino Oscillation
search) in Soudan mine at a depth of 776 meter in minnestoa 732 Km away. The
MINOs experiment showed that there is a short fall in the number of muon
neutrinos ,if they are detected a long distance away from their point of
production, may be called “Missing Neutrinos”- as we told earlier, some
neutrinos were missing . Solar
neutrinos actually have a multiple personality disorder. They are created as
electron neutrinos in Sun, but on way
to Earth, they change their type. For neutrinos, the
origin of personality disorder is a quantum mechanical process, called
"neutrino oscillations .Lower energy solar neutrinos switch from
electron neutrino to another type as they travel in vacuum from Sun to Earth.
The process can go back and forth between different types. The number of
personality changes, or oscillations, depends however upon neutrino energy.
At higher neutrino energies, process of oscillation is enhanced by
interactions with electrons in Sun or in
Earth. Stas Mikheyev, Alexei Smirnov, and Lincoln Wolfenstein first
proposed that interactions with electrons in Sun could exacerbate personality
disorder of neutrinos, i.e., the presence of matter could cause the neutrinos
to oscillate more vigorously between different types. The standard model of
particle physics assumes that neutrinos are mass less. What we authors could
never follow .In order for neutrino oscillations to occur, some neutrinos
must have masses- some may not have mass. Therefore, the standard model of
particle physics must be revised.
Neutrinos are elementary particles where all neutral counterparts of
charged leptons namely the electrons, the muons and ţ leptons all
of which take participation in the weak interactions. Determination of
neutrinos particles still remain notoriously difficult from the point of view
of experiments and got challenges in the particle physics of highest depth
research. At this moment, there is no information of even values of their
individual masses. We authors however proposed their value as m1<3ev;ml<190Kev;
mj<18.2 Mev may be the mass of different muon nutrinos numbers.
It is worth noted that direct detection of VĴ was reported in 2006
for the first time only from Fermi laboratories USA. The presence of neutrino
oscillation in 2006 march experiment by Fermilab .Direct Observation of NUTAU
E872 [DONUT] experiment
implies existence of distant & non vanishing mass for neutrinos flavors.
So neutrinos must have a non-zero mass. For electron neutrinos the mass is 10-6ev.
A mass in excess of 1ev would then be significant since neutrinos would then
contribute mass than stars ( Stars like sun) to the mass density of universe. The universe would be then closed
if mass of neutrinos would be between
25 and 100 eV. So 1) “Electron Neutrinos” had amass of 20ev, 2)”Muon
neutrinos” had a mass of 0.5Mev and 3) Tat neutrinos” had a mass of 250 Mev. Electron neutrinos constituted about a third of
the total number of neutrinos. Most of neutrinos produced in interior of Sun, all of which are electron neutrinos
when they are produced, are changed into muon and tau neutrinos by time they reach Earth. In QCD, studies
suggest that primordial universe was dominated by neutrinos of non-zero mass
rather then by quarks with it’s colour. A natural scale then emerged
determined by maximum distance neutrinos that could stream freely as universe expanded, before neutrinos slowed
down on account of their mass below the scale of super cluster i.e. galaxies
formation. In this neutrinos theory then no pre- existing fluctuation then
survived and the first structure then collapsed and formed galaxies.
That a neutral particle could be observed
however comes as a startling claim. By any interpretation of Coulomb’s or
Maxwell’s laws, a purely neutral particle (i.e. containing no charges) could
not apply any force on a charged particle, nor could it be affected by a
static or electromagnetic field. An answer to this may be that they can be
observed when impacting another particle directly. The below image shows the
bubble chamber experiment in which a neutrino was first detected [3].![]() Figure-2 The accepted interpretation of this is: (1) a neutrino came in from the right (it can’t be seen due to having no charge). (2) It hits a proton. (3) A positive pion is produced and curves downward. (4) A negative lighter muon is also produced and moves quickly to the left, curving weakly upward. (5) The original heavier proton survives; it moves slowly and curves downward. According to the standard particle physics model, when oppositely charged particles ( they are called antiparticles) meet with a particle they must annihilate into radiations and energy . Apparently the rules are different for neutral particles; namely that they should bounce off other particles like billiard balls, and this requires sub-atomic particles be slightly elastic. Assuming this is true, how can we calculate the degree of elastic bounce? In any classical situation this would be easily solved in terms of momentum and energy conservation. Knowing the momentum requires knowing the mass and this is a problem because neutrinos are commonly assumed to have none. Special relativity theory tells us that particles having zero mass, such as photons when at motion, must travel at light speed. This is due to the relativistic rest mass formula, which says an object’s mass increases toward infinity as it reaches nears light speed. For an object of non-zero rest mass this puts the brakes on acceleration and keeps v below c. But for an object with zero rest mass the acceleration can only stop when the particle hits light speed, at which point the object gains a non-zero relativistic mass. What will this mass be? To determine this we can use the Lorentz Transform equation: ![]() Where m0 is the rest mass. In mathematical terms, when zero is divided by zero is called an indeterminate, meaning that it can have any real-number value, or even an infinite one. Calculating momentum requires multiplying this indeterminate mass by velocity, in this case c, which of course just gives us another indeterminate. This is not helpful! But could a neutrino particle with indeterminate mass/momentum account for the mysteries it is said to solve, such as muon/electron mass-loss and the collision in the above image? After all, if it’s indeterminate then we can assign any value we want to it, right? Perhaps, but we’d be hard-pressed to explain why identical objects moving at the same velocity have different relativistic masses. After all, the speed of light is a universal constant; not a universal variable. So if neutrinos don’t account for the above collision what does? Here’s our interpretation. The invisible particle coming from the right (1) is actually a positive pion and negative muon overlapping (similar to the poseltron concept). It strikes the proton (2) and this causes the pion and muon to break apart and become visible. The three particles, pion, muon and proton are then scattered. A far more interesting aspect of this image arises from measuring the extent of scattering. A simple pixel measurement shows the length of each track to be:
In the muon’s case, it ended up off screen so we can only calculate a ratio of 442/72 = 6.1, which is understandably less than the real muon/proton ratio (about 9) because the track must be longer. But seeing as the muon’s mass has already been determined in other experiments by comparing its particle tracks to electrons, we can accept their stated mass as being 206 electrons. Neutral composite particles _:This description of a pion-muon particle (which struck the proton in the above image) as well as the poseltron spoken about in the earlier gives rise to the possibility that there are many neutral composite particles in existence. Here are some charged particles we commonly know of:
A Bold Hypothesis _: In the above description of muon to electron conversion, the muon decayed when it met a poseltron. This caused the electron and positron to separate, followed by the muon absorbing the positron and ejecting the electron. Here is a diagram showing a break-down of events: ![]() The electron and positron are pictured smaller than the muon because they are lighter. If we assume sub-atomic particles to be made of a similar material of uniform density, this would make the muon/electron diameter ratio proportional to the cube-root of their mass ratio: in this case making the muon about 6 times larger as shown. The idea that there should be direct correlation between mass and size seems quite logical and this is probably how most would view sub-atomic particles. But this view alas creates a problem for the electron-positron separation shown above. If the electron was much smaller than the muon its charge density would be much higher. Hence the muon would be unable to force the electron and positron to separate because the electron would be using a much higher percentage of its charge to attract and hold the positron. The only way the above could work is for the muon and electron to be very similar in size. Based on this reasoning we’d like to make a bold hypothesis: All fundamental (indivisible) sub-atomic particles are identical in size. They vary only in mass and charge. If this is true, everything from an electron to a top quark has the same diameter but different densities. This may turn out to be true only for certain types of particles such as those in the pion/muon/electron interactions. But if this principle can be extended to all particles, it would allow for a much broader range of interactions. Hence many composite particles could be again composed from further small numbers of fundamental sub - particles |
Higgs field : particle mass is a measure of the resistance to movements through Higgs field. This finding of higgs particle is so interesting events and chances were very rare: 1 in 100,000,000,000 (1 followed by 11 zeros) Equivalent to looking for one particular grain in is 2.5 million kg of rice. Higgs events are also very rare Equal quantities of Matter and Anti-matter should have been produced in the Big Bang, then annihilated each other leaving just radiationSuper-symmetry :- it means symmetry between types of particles. Every observed particle has a super-partner, just too (1000 times) massive to have been already seen Super symmetry particles are S quarks, S gravitino, S leptons ,Photinos, Gluons, Wino, zino, Higgsino
How the particles are captured? World’s most massive “onion” structure to capture the particles is ATLAS ATLAS Control Room, first beams, 20 November 2009
1)
Energy is converted
into many quarks, anti-quarks and gluons. 2)
QGP lasts for about 10-22 seconds
3) Then thousands of particles are produced The Standard “Big Bang” Model successfully
could described all of the elementary particles in the particle physics, we
know to exist in mathematically at least how they
interact with one another.
2) The Standard Model could however never answered me nor my youngest brother Mr.Rupak Bhattacharya(2) one
most basic question : “Why do most of
these elementary particles have masses?” and “where from the mass
actually came? And Does any particles exist that moves faster then speed
of Light (FTL Particles)? ” Without
mass, our universe would be a very different place than this one- we think it
so . For example, let we consider a very much hypothetical situation, that if
the electron or proton had no mass at all, then there would be no formation of atoms at all. Hence there
would be no formation of ordinary matter ( we call ordinary matter as hadrons)
as we know it, --there would be then no chemistry, no sea, no rocks, no
asteroids No sun, No planets--- then no
biology, no people, no reptiles, no
trees, no animals, no flowers, no biological substances even no unicellular
organism like protozoa, amoeba or virus nor even DNA structure in this planet the
Earth. There would be no planets at all. No sun, No Stars, No Galaxies. In
addition, look at our Sun shines in the blue sky. My thanks to a delicate interplay among the
fundamental forces of Nature, which would be completely upset, if some of those
force particles did not have large masses? At first sight the concept of mass
seems not to fit into the Standard Model of particle physics. Two of the forces
the model was then described – 1) The
electromagnetism and 2) the weak nuclear force – and they can be elementary
particles must be mass less or zero rest mass and some thing gave them mass and
before time of nuclueosynthesis the particle that was created to gave mass as per professor Peter W Higgs -is Higgs
particle and these Higgs particles may
be many. The Scalar field in which mass
was created is now called Higgs field.
Professor Peter W Higgs gave that concept in 1964. So there was search for
Higgs particle in LHC. It was a
search for the standard model Higgs particle was presented in the four-Lepton
decay modes in LHC of CERN. Upper limits at 95% confidence level excluded the
Higgs mass ranges 134–158GeV, 180–305GeV, and 340–465GeV. A major fraction of
the explored mass range was thus
excluded at 95% CL and the exclusion limits extended beyond the sensitivity of
previous collide experiments. Excesses of events were observed at the low end
of the explored mass range, around masses of 119 and 126GeV, and at high mass
around 320GeV. These excesses, although not statistically significant, make the
observed limits weaker than expected in the absence of a signal. At low mass,
only the region 114.4 < mH < 134GeV remained consistent with the
expectation for the standard model Higgs boson productions, described by a single theory, that of the
electroweak force. Scientists have subjected the electroweak theory to many
experimental tests, which it has passed with flying colours. However, According
to these authors, the basic equations of
that theory seem to require that all . major
breakthrough in particle physics came in the 1970s when theoretical physicists
did first realize that there are very close ties between two of the four
fundamental forces – namely, the weak force and the electromagnetic force after
Professor Abdus Salam the Nobel Laureate in physics of Pakistan. The two forces
can be described within the same theory, which forms the basis of the Standard
Big Bang Model. This ‘unification’ implied that electricity, magnetism, light
and some types of radioactivity are all manifestations of a single underlying
force called, unsurprisingly, the electroweak force. But in order for this
unification, to work out mathematically, it requires that the force-carrying
particles must have no rest mass . We
know from experiments and our knowledge, that this is not true, So Prof. Peter
Higgs in UK, Mr. Rupak Bhattacharya of
7/51 purbapalli Sodepur,West Bengal-Kol-110 ,
one of authors of this article, individually suggested a solution to
solve this conundrum. What they suggested was that all particles that moment
must had no mass [ were of zero rest mass particles] just after the Big Bang
moment. As the Universe cooled and the temperature fell below a critical value,
an invisible force field called the ‘Higgs field’ was formed together with the
associated ‘zero mass particle’. The field prevailed throughout the cosmos: any
particles that interact with it are given a mass via the Higgs particle or
Rupak Particle. The more they interacted, the heavier they become, whereas
particles that never interact are left with no mass at all. The zero rest
mass particles or the Higgs particles,
up to this day, is nothing more than just a theoretical imaginary entity that stems only from particle
physics'
Standard Model. Still, many of the particles that mankind has so
far discovered, and in fact, many of the principles that had been proven by
experimental data, started out as predictions from mathematical solutions, as
for example like quarks . The ‘unification theory’ implied that
electricity, magnetism, light and some types of radioactivity are all
manifestations of a single underlying force called, unsurprisingly, the
electroweak force and to find out the laws of our universe. But in order for
this unification to work mathematically, it requires that the force-carrying
particles must have no mass. We know from our experiments that this notion is
not true, Finding zero rest mass particle and Higgs Particle would give an
insight into why particles have certain mass, and help to develop subsequent
physics
As, according to Professor Mery Gelman,- a Nobel laureate
in physics, the earliest particles in our universe were quarks and anti-quarks.
The gospel of Big Bang is then supposed to have been explosion from zero volume
at zero time of a corpuscle containing
the cosmic soup of these quarks and anti quarks particles , where in the corpuscle energy
were equivalent to mass and radiation
and flash. The particles and their anti particles were there in constant annihilation
and went into radiation and flash. What
we authors wanted to mean that at about trillion and trillion degrees of temperature
of cosmic soup (about 1015K) the
elementary particles and radiation was
just interchangeable. In the primordial fireball or in cosmic soup, the
particles and antiparticles were being in constant annihilation and were again
created although the total energy of combined radiation and matter of the soup
was constant.
However in the quantum
chromo dynamics (QCD) another particle was proposed as the earliest particles
in the universe. They were neutrinos particles as told above [ or positrons].
The neutrinos were also non-Zero mass particles though they were
first proposed without mass or zero rest mass particles. The idea that neutrinos might have
mass was of about 40 years old. The successful unification of the weak and
electromagnetic force field implies that there should be as many as kinds of
neutrinos, as there are different kinds of electron like particles. The question of mass of the neutrinos had
been of great interest since Fremis
first analysis of β decay to the present time. There is till no confirmed mass evidence that neutrinos have a non zero
mass (Bhattacharjee. Rupak and
Bhattacharya Pranab Kumar).
All accepted models in the cosmology and in
particle physics assumes that neutrinos are mass less or so as told previously.
The heaviest neutrinos in Gev temperature ranges from í to r electron volts. But the scientists later found that this wooly mammoth allegedly
carries a mass of 17,000 electron volts (kev). By the radioactive
beta decay process- a process in which an unstable nucleus in the radioactive
isotopes emits both an electron and a neutrino , of decay of electrons. Rupak Bhattacharya & Prof Pranab Kumar
Bhattacharya recorded the energy of
decay electrons by sending them into a crystal where they knock other electrons
creating a current that provided a measure of energy where a big 17Kev
regularly appeared, taken from the energy of a few electrons. The energy was
then obvious 17 Kev neutrinos and 1% of their emitted neutrinos belonged to
heavy neutrinos. Neutrinos can pass through the entire Earth without leaving a
trace and it is immune to many of forces that bind matter including
electromagnetic forces. So Neutrinos are ghostly sub atomic particles, so
feebly in their interaction with ordinary matter that they can happily pass
through earth without stopping. They have almost never been observed outside the
controlled environment of the big accelerator laboratories of USA &CERN in
Europe. Neutrinos are even more common in the universe then the photons, only
because probably the Big Bang left a sea of very low energy neutrinos that
permeated every corner of this Cosmos (BhattacharjeeRupak and Bhattacharya Pranab Kumar).
In 30th
march 2006 from the US laboratory “ Fermi lab” reported first result from a
neutrinos experiment Called “MINOS”( Main injector neutrino Oscillation search)
in Soudan mine at a depth of 776 meter in minnestoa 732 Km away. The MIINOs
experiment showed that there is a short fall in the number of muon nutrinos if they
are detected a long distance away from their point of production. Neutrinos are
elementary particles where all neutral counterparts of charged leptons namely
the electrons, the muons and ţ leptons all of which take
participation in the weak interactions. Determination of neutrinos particles
still remain notoriously difficult from the point of view of experiments and
got challenges in the particle physics of highest depth research. At this
moment when writing this article, there is no information of even values of
their individual masses. Mr. Rupak Bhattacharya, the author here however proposed
their value as m1<3ev;ml<190Kev; mj<18.2
Mev may be the mass of different muon neutrinos numbers. It is worth noted that
direct detection of VĴ was reported in 2006 for the first time only
from Fermi laboratories USA. The presence of neutrino oscillation in 2006 march
experiment by Fermilab .Direct Observation of NUTAU E872[DONUT]
experiment implies existence of distant & non vanishing mass for neutrino
flavors. In particular, as per Rupak Bhattacharya there are now three mass m1,ml,mj
and three angels that mix neutrinos flavours denoted by θ12,θ23,
andθ13. In addition according to Rupak, neutrinos may also have particles ie they are fermions which are their
own antiparticles.
But neutrinos might have a non-zero mass. For
electron neutrinos the mass is 10-6ev. A mass in excess of 1 ev
would then be significant since neutrinos would then contribute mass than
stars( Stars like sun) to the mass density of the universe. The universe would
be then closed if the mass of neutrinos would be between 25 and 100 eV. There were then three types of neutrinos in
the Big Bang moment. 1) “Electron Neutrinos” had a mass of 20ev, 2)”Muon
neutrinos” had a mass of0.5Mev & muon neutrinos were suggested that they are
faster-than-light particles. Please Read More: http://www.worldscientific.com/doi/abs/10.1142/S0217732392000422?journalCode=mpla and 3) Tat neutrinos” had a mass of 250 Mev. In the QCD, studies suggest that
the primordial universe was dominated by neutrinos of non-zero mass rather then
by quarks with it’s colour. A natural scale then emerged determined by maximum
distance neutrinos that could stream freely as the universe expanded, before
the neutrinos slowed down on account of their mass below the scale of super
cluster i.e. galaxies formation. Neutrino is essential
particle to illustrate the symmetry that the universe must have had at one
time. The neutrino, a particle if without mass travels at the speed of light
and can have a clockwise or counterclockwise spin. The neutrino’s direction of
spin is forever tied to the “direction of motion”, and then this would gives it
a new property – chirality“ – a lovely symmetry.” It was then a reflection of
the earlier universe, where all particles had no mass and would exhibit the symmetry
that is for some unknown reason hidden today, according to what’s known from
the QCD, QED, and the Standard Model. In this neutrinos
theory then no pre- existing fluctuation then survived and the first structure
then collapsed and formed galaxies.
Those are in favor of neutrinos particles,
suggested that the primordial synthesis of nucleon in nucleon synthesis was
from neutrinos. Whatever be the long standing debate regarding the quarks or
neutrinos particles as the earliest particles in the universe that remained in
the corpuscles of cosmic egg, the
density fluctuation happened at 10-35 second after the initial Big
Bang moment within the corpuscle which resulted due to temperature variation to
about 1011K when nucleon synthesis probably started. Beyond
this temperature only electron and its antiparticles Positrons could evolve and
still involved in annihilation and creation exchanged with their equivalent
energies in the form of electromagnetic radiation. The temperature further dropped down from an overall 1011K to
a temperature of only one hundredth and as great as 109[1,00,00,00,000
i.e. one Trillion degrees]. This was a practically significant landmark,
for bellow that temperature the radiation density became too small for
electron, positron pairs were produced [The surface temperature of our sun is
only 5000K]. These happened only after100 seconds of Plank Time. But we
authors want to mention one important thing that we know what happened in
the~1S of planks Time of Big Bang. But we do not still know what happened in
the first ten thousandth of a second of Big Bang Singularity. This is probably
the big question to all theoretical physicists till now.
So the
cosmic soup consisted of quarks and anti quarks, electrons and it’s
antiparticles anti electrons or positrons. The particles and antiparticles were in constant annihilation and
radiation as per Einstein’s famous equation E= mC2. At 109K
temperature matter were produced and the universe is today made of matter i.e.
hadrons. (Proton, Neutron, lepton, Electrons) But in the Big Bang Moment
universe started it’s voyage with equal numbers of matter and antimatters.
Electron and Positron were created and were in constant annihilation,
liberating burst of energy and radiation. Thanks to the creator [If at
all exist] of the Big Bang that during the nucleon synthesis anti proton were
not created. If at all antiproton, antineutron were created they were at least
in separate compartment and did not come into contact [Matter and antimatter as
soon as come in contact both are destroyed and their entire rest mass converts
into radiation and energy known as entropy or annihilation. Prof, S.W. Hawking
in his famous book “The Brief history of
Time” nicely said –If you even meet your anti You (Mirror image of You) don’t
hand shake with him you will turn into flash, radiation and energy at once”
The
Universe consists of now large masses of matter and antimatter organized into
galaxies, stars, and planets. According to this view about construction of the
universe, the matter and antimatter should co-exist at some early stage in the
Big Bang. For it only if the temperature was high enough it should be possible
for nucleons and anti nucleons to rub their shoulders with each other’s. Simple
theory suggests that they should after ward annihilate each other’s with
production of photons and neutrinos. To account a universe in which matter and
anti matter were separated in separate galaxies it is therefore necessary to
explain how such a separation could have taken place at very early stage in the
development of primeval fire ball?
It is again one of the most fundamental questions in
cosmology. The question of existence of antimatter in significant quantities in
the present universe. in our galaxy! The question of whether antimatter had an
equal role with matter in making up galaxies? In a contemporary Para diagram of
Grand Unified theories(GUT) & Gauge Theories (String Theories) these
questions are related to questions of
nature of charge, parity variations at high energy. The questions of separating
matter and antimatter, proton and antiproton, helium and anti helium. The
symmetry between matter and antimatter [ i. e baryon symmetry in the cosmology
] that was once observed at accelerator
had forced many scientists and astrophysicists
to think that there existed
also a similar balance in the
universe of matter and antimatter at
most early phase of the universe. But
we don’t see or don’t find
antimatter in our observable
universe. Our observable universe is
made of matter only. Why? Antimatter annihilated with matter. If that was so, then there
would not be any matter to make up galaxies, our observable universe. Was the matter and antimatter at all mixed together? Or was the matter and antimatter were in
two separate compartments? If the later was true, then we must have
another Universe. That universe was made of antimatter.(Authors Theory).
However universe consisted of large mass of matter and antimatter- standard Big Bang model says so. On this view, in
present authors opinion, is that matter
and antimatter must co-existed all together
at some early stage of Big Bang? For it ,only when the temperature was high
enough, it was possible for nucleons and anti nucleons, quarks and anti quarks
to rub their shoulders with each others, and simple theory suggest that these
rubbing resulted annihilation with production of both photons and neutrinos. H. Alfeven et al ( Alfeven .H – Rev. Mod. Physics Vol37; P652;
1965) did bring out a mechanism which permitted region of matter and antimatter
to co-exist together in our galaxy, even without appreciable mixing. Otherwise in early state of universe [when a
homogeneous universe] there would have to be also a mechanism for separating
matter and antimatter so that galaxies were formed in clusters. Then big questions are 1) what
was the mechanism for separation of matter and antimatter? 2) Where went the bulk of antimatter? 3) Does
antimatter stars or antimatter galaxies
were capable of nuecleosynthesis? Does
the antimatter stars or antimatter galaxies at all? 5) If at all exists what is the way of
communication from our universe made of matter to a Universe made of
antimatter? Theoretically there must be some anti-galaxies in the space. But no
body have seen them yet . There is a different gravity there- antigravity between
antimatter/antimatter and antimatter/anti antimatter. Antimatter creates cosmic
voids (Pranab Kumar Bhattacharya- Does
the universe contain also anti galaxies-
a myth or a reality? Space Light Vol 4 P7-13; 1998) Defining a region of
mass MR as a typical unit of matter and antimatter According to the conventional Big Bang model of the universe, there were
small excess of baryon particles (~1 in 109) over the anti particles
in the early stage of evolution of universe. At that time the thermal
energy “KT” exceeded the rest energy mpc2 of baryon particles. It
was to the excess amount of KT, for that we see the present existence of matter
in the universe. So as the thermal energy dropped bellow mc2, the
baryons and anti baryons started annihilated and there leaving just excess of
baryons intact. Let us consider a model of universe that was initially filled
up with the thermal radiations. Its expansion was described by the scale factor
R (t) which behaved approximately like t -1/2 while the temperature
varied like R-1. For the early stage of the universe, the effect of
space curvature was negligible. It was known in the history of such a model,
the model can be divided in to several periods according to content of thermal
radiation. The Hadronic (KT≥100mev), Leptonic (KT≥ 1mev) and Radiative
(KT≥300K). Super imposed on division, on evolution of baryons, we have to
consider also other periods. The separation period was (KT≥350Mev), annihilation period
(KT≥25Kev) and coalescence period was (T>300K). There was some interest in
1970s regarding the existence of the antimatter in the universe. Stiegman. G in
1969 ( Stiegman. G. – Nature Vol224; P447; 1969) showed that if the space time
were filled with equal mixture of matter and antimatter then gamma ray flux
that resulted from nucleon and anti nucleon annihilation would be far above the
observed limit. But there were much
possibilities that matter and antimatter existed quite separately in large
regions consisting solely of one characteristic type, perhaps in the form of
galaxies and anti galaxies (Bhattacharjee Rupak and Bhattacharya Pranab) separation,
one can assume that a process probably
existed in the early Big Bang model. This process could however separate matter
and antimatter into contiguous regions at some early epoch of Big Bang. We
can also assume that the regions remain separated until and after decoupling
would prevent collision between them, owing to the effect of radiation. After
decoupling, the material contained in several such regions started to collapse
and coalesce. The collapse and coalescence led to an annihilation of particles
from regions to anti regions. The rate, at which coalescence occurred, depended
on the scale of density fluctuation. Defining a blob of mass MB, as the largest
commonly occurring density fluctuation, existing at de-compleing, we know from
galaxy forming theory that the minimum mass of the blob was ~107MO jeans mass. It is
also well known that any gravitational bound group of blob will eventually
undergo collapse. But due to the expansion of the universe, the collapse would
not proceed rapidly until the density contracted. The collision cross section
for blob contained in such group became very high once collapse set in. So if
both matter and antimatter were present in early universe, one must expect a
considerable amount of annihilation to occur at the time of collapse. So there must be a separation period for
matter and antimatter. In the separation period the particles and antiparticles
[Quarks and anti-quarks, Neutrinos and anti neutrinos/ Gluons and anti-gluons]
separated spatially as a consequence of their statistical repulsion. This was
initially induced by fluctuation (Bhattacharjee Rupak and Bhattacharya
Pranab Kumar- Does universe contain antigalaxies – a myth or a reality? – Space
Light Vol4; P7-13; 1998). One can
compute the size as “δ,” as the individual condensation containing an excess of
nucleon and anti- nucleon reached during 10-5 S of the period. The
total baryonic number in that period was 1028. Near the end of
separation period the universe was filled up with emulsion of nucleons and anti
nucleons with a topical size δ=3x10-4c.m. The next came annihilation period. When temperature fell bellow the
critical temperature (T) the particles and antiparticles [quarks and anti
quarks] started to annihilate. The annihilate process was then controlled by
diffusion so that densities D and N (Nucleons) and N-(anti nucleons)
satisfy the equation as given below
δΝ/δΤ=DV-2N-αN
N-, δN-/δΤ=δV-N-αNN- (BhattacharjeeRupak). At the end of this period a typical fraction of 10-8 or more nucleon survived. They were still in
the form of emulsion with a typical size of 105cm and with a typical
mass of 1010 gram(
100,000,000, kilogram) within a sphere of radius. This was however very
far from a galactic mass. During annihilation the process first gave birth
chiefly to pions and through their decay to high-energy photons, electrons,
positrons, and neutrinos successively. The transfer of momentum by photons and
electrons produces an annihilation pressure at boundary between matter and
antimatter. To find the behavior of matter and antimatter, which were probably
in contact through a common boundary, the effect of high-energy photons and
leptons was a dominant feature, because these particles exerted a very strong
pressure and kept the heating system on. Radiative pressure was very dominant,
so that pressure due to heating tended to balance annihilation. With the
possible exception of cosmic gumma rays, observation yielded essentially no
information on the relative amount of
matter and antimatter beyond our solar system. What the observation told
us was that matter and antimatter
are rarely ,if ever found together. What was the mechanism that matter and
antimatter were then separated?. Consider a gas of proton, antiproton,
electron and positron, which is sufficiently
diluted and then annihilation can not be neglected there. In general,
such a gas will be situated in a magnetic field say “B” , in a Gravitational field say “G” and in a
electromagnetic field of flux “F”. Each of the fields will then be
assumed static and homogeneous. In particular length scale for variation in “B” must be large
enough that particle drifts arising from
magnetic in homogenetics are also negligible. The protons and antiprotons will
be much more strongly influenced by Gravitational field than by Radiation
field. As well as spiraling around the magnetic line of forces the heavy particles will therefore have a drift velocity Vh= mPxgxB/qB2 ,where mP is the
proton mass, q is the particle charge,.[BhattacharjeeRupak & Bhattacharya Pranab Kumar – Does the Universe contain also anti
galaxies- a myth or a reality- Space Light; Vol4 P7-13;1998] .Because of
their small mass, and larger scattering cross section, the electrons and positrons will feel much weaker
Gravitational force due to radiation pressure. It is however to be noted that just electric current through gas does
not heavily result in separation of charges, and the opposed drift of matter
need not produce an actual matter- antimatter
separation. On the other hand , matter and antimatter in an isolated
cloud or in extended medium, with an
appropriate field configuration should
achieve some degree of separation. Because, proton and antiproton ,electron and
positron fluxes will not be equal in general. There will be some separation of charge leading to an electrical field “ E
“ and ExB drift. As ExB drift increases, the heavy particles acquire an inertia which tends to remove the original difference between proton and anti proton and electron and positron fluxes. So the big question appeared
before us what happened to these
antimatter?. New York university physics department had isolated a particles that switches back
and forth in its anti form spontaneously. Some theories have been then put
forth at the antimatter that we have been observing is not the exact opposite
of real matter based on hydrogen atom displaying weight. Up until now
antimatter was believed only to be created from pure energy as in collision of
matter( Gerald Lukaniuk –
www.bautforum.com/showthread.php?t-40211
& highlight=antimatter 6th april2006). It is
known that neutral βs meson(β-anti quark &s anti quark) spontaneously
transform into its antimatter particles. The current theory of particle physics
states that βs meson oscillates very quickly. As a result of their oscillation
an very difficult to detect what happens to antimatter. BATAVIA’, illinos,
scientist of D.Zero collider deflector collaboration at department of energy,
Fermi national Accelerator laboratory had announced that their data on the
properties of subatomic particles βs
meson(βsubs) suggest that particles oscillates between matter and
antimatter in one of nature’s fastest rapid free process more than 17 trillion
times per second. One of the greatest mysteries of the universe is its apparent
composition of only matter and not the anti matter. If matter and antimatter
were created equally at the time of Big Bang matter and antimatter should have
annihilated in to pure energy. In fact in real universe it did not happened.
How did our universe of matter survived is a big puzzle. Laboratory evidence
made it however possible to observe some form of matter oscillating into
antimatter and back. The C P theory states such a story. The C P symmetry- it is
the mirror form of matter. It is a measurement of the matter antimatter
oscillation of β sub S mesons and it is the first measurement of oscillation of
this particular particles. Experiment with beta mesons showed partial violation
of CPT invariance. The TRAP experiment found no violates of CPT in cyclotrons
frequencies with proton and antiproton level. Shakarov’s CP violation theory[
Nobel prize winner in peace] gives however some clue to what happened to
antimatter. According to this theory the antimatter& most the matter would
have annihilated. But CP violation means that matter and antimatter did not
always behaved in the same way resulting in a one in billions imbalance of
ordinary matter. Symmetry is important mathematical concept used in fundamental
physics to describe particles property. Antiparticles mirror their related
particles by having opposite sign for several properties, particularly the
electrical charges. Particle theory expresses this relationship in terms of
mathematical operator or mirror designated as”C” which changes the sign of
charge and other properties. In this way operating on a particle with the C
mirror yield an antiparticle. Another mathematical mirror “P” reverses particle
interaction in the space rather like flipping the right handed gloves into left
handed, one “P” changes the sign of a property called “Parity” which according
to dirac equation is opposite for particle and antiparticles. In a particle
interaction the sign for “C” and “P” totaled over the particles involved are
same before and after the interaction then C and P are each and to be conserved. Now as it
happens C&P are not always conserved and there occurs CP violation. This CP
violation also explains lack of antimatter in our universe.
After the Plank epoch,
when the age of the universe was t ≤10-43S and the temperature of
the universe was T≥109Gev , we can be sure enough , that the
interactions between the matter and the
antimatter at their first quark level or
Between sub2 quark R+/ R_[R particle level] became unimportant. This was because of that
rate for gravitational interaction was
much less then the expansion rate of the universe. Although the interactions
between matter and antimatter particles kept each of them separately in a
thermal equilibrium and thus probably
Two world were created. These Two worlds did not feel each others existence at
very microscopic level. During the primordial nucleosynthesis of the early
universe, which started 1S after the initial Big Bang moment, the yield of the
Big Bang depended on the expansion rate of the Universe. The expansion density
PT= P+Ps by R0/R= [(δπGN/3)(P+Ps)]1/2 where P and Ps=
density of matter and Antimatter, R= Cosmic scale factors. During this early
epoch the universe was radiation dominated with P=g (π2/30)T4
where g counts the effective number of degrees of freedom particles (Rupak
Bhattacharjee). The temperature of the particle world and
that of anti particle world were not the same. The inflation occurred in the
two worlds in both the sector but not necessarily simultaneously. The inflation
involved was a random event in
the nucleation of a bubble or in the formation of a fluctuation region. At the beginning of the inflation the
universe was in false vacuum state for both the world. The bubble nucleated for
one world, first say for antimatter world. As the bubble grew exponentially in
physical size, both the temperature of matter and antimatter decreased
exponentially. At this time the ratio of entropy remained constant. When the
antiparticle vacuum energy was converted into radiation, the antiparticle
temperature raised and entropy decreased. Eventually a bubble of fluctuation
region formed for the matter world within the antimatter bubble. During the
second phase of inflation, new bubble grew exponentially. When the vacuum
energy of ordinary matter world converted into radiation, the temperature of
particle world raised to a temperature, which was exponentially larger than the
temperature of the antiparticle world. Thus
the entropy was reduced further. To an exponentially small value and the matter
dominated the visible universe.
According to Big Bang model of Universe, there
was small excess of matter then antimatter (~1 in 109) in the early
stage of evolution, when the thermal energy KT exceeded the rest of energy mpc2.
The baryons and anti baryons
annihilated and then leaving just excess of baryon intact. From a fit of
nucleon-nucleon scattering theory, the evidence of π, η7, ω, ρ, and mesons can
divide the nucleon and anti nucleon scattering amplitude. There are bound
states of nucleon and anti nucleon pairs, which can be identified with mesons
π, ρ, ω, and η7. Such a situation in which some particles appear as bound
states and act as agent for Special Forces. Dashen .R (Dashen. R
Physics Review-Vol187; P345; 1969) summarized a basic formula relating to
Gibb’s potential Ω to it’s value Ω0 for free particles and to
collision matrix –S Ω =Ω0 -KT/2π∫δEc-E/KT
trace [clogs (E) ee-∑u1n1]. Analysis of this result
drives a phase transition at a temperature of KT of the order of 350 Mev. Above this temperature, nucleon and anti
nucleon tended to remain separately from each other’s.
PAMELA experiment
in2008 saw an unexpected excess of positrons (anti-electrons) whizzing
around space. That excess could be from a nearby astrophysical source, or it
could be from the annihilation of dark matter—heavy, rarely interacting
particles that make up about 85% of the matter in the universe.
Can the LHC Experiment
will prove the existence of Sub2quark particles, Zero rest mass
particles or Higgs Particle and there antiparticles?
Any powerful particle
accelerator of today has probably two main purposes. One purpose is the
production of new and newer particles sub-particles and the other is scattering
of those particles (in 3-D space). Particle scattering is a method of
determining what sub atomic (constituent) particles look like and their
properties. It is using the collision of energized particles to give a
"snapshot" or clear "picture" of the particle being
studied, whether a proton, electron, quarks, sub-quarks or a whole bunch of
other interesting particles. The Large Hadron Collider (LHC), which was built
at the European Centre for Nuclear Research (CERN) near Geneva, Switzerland,
using a 27-kilometre underground ring. The LHC will whizz protons, which are
far heavier particles than electrons, to energies of up to 14 trillion electron
volts. One of its primary goals will be the search for the Standard Model (SM)
Higgs particle. The main SM Higgs boson production mechanism at the LHC will be
then by gluon-gluon fusion, while the qq!qqH process, or Vector Boson Fusion
(VBF), will account for about 20% of the total cross section. Next-to-leading
order (NLO) corrections are of major relevance in particular for the
gluon-gluon fusion production, with K-factors ranging from 1.7 to 2.0. A review
of Higgs production cross sections can be found in. The particle identified in the title is the zero
mass particles, and the particle that gave mass in Higgs Field. Professor Peter Higgs actually joked that
Lederman originally wished to label this particle as "the goddamn particle
or god’s Particle.
[A diagram summarizing the tree-level interactions between elementary
particles described in the Standard Model]
The Higgs particles could be as light as
78 GeV without however being detected at LEP, while detection
at the LHC is extremely challenging one the present authors thinks
so. However many of the super- and global symmetry partners of the
standard model particles should be easily observable at the LHC.
Furthermore, the LHC should be able to observe a “wrong” Higgs that
is a 300–400 GeV heavy Higgs-like particle with suppressed
couplings to W and Z that by itself does not account
for electroweak precision observables and the unitarily of WW
scatteing. At the same time, the true Higgs may be deeply buried in
the QCD background. Hopes of finding the boson are pinned on two
massive detectors at the LHC: the ATLAS or A Toroidal LHC apparatus and the CMS
or Compact Muon Solenoid. These two detectors have the same goals but their
designs are radically dissimilar.Professor Stephen Hawking had a bet in 2008
for 100 dollars (70 euros) that a mega-experiment this week will not find an
elusive particle seen as a holy grail of cosmic science. Rather the experiment
could discover super partners, particles that would be "super symmetric
partners" to particles already known about. Their existence would be a
however key confirmation of string theory, and they could make up the
mysterious dark matter that holds galaxies together. Prof. Hawkings told in
2008 in a meeting with BBC.
In 2013 Professor Peter W Higgs has been
awarded Nobel prize for the SM Higgs along with Professor but the question
remains yet how the Higgs interacts with
standard-model fermions: entities such as electrons, muons and quarks that have
an intrinsic angular momentum, or 'spin', of ½ in quantum units. The
probability of an interaction with each particle is supposed to be proportional
to its mass — not least because, in the standard model, interaction with the
Higgs is what creates the mass.
Is
there really Zero Rest mass particles possible at all? What is then Rest mass? In Universe, while matter creation, theories
should assume zero rest mass entities (fields). From those zero rest mass entities ,massive particles were
created as perturbations in a single fundamental field. And How the rest mass
originated What were these Zero mass particles then ? Electron? Higg’s Particle
? Photon? Boson? Gluons? One of the consequences
of Eisenstein’s special theory of relativity is that mass of an object
increases with its velocity relative to the observer; it has the usual mass
that we are familiar with. This is called the rest mass of the object. As the
speed of the object is increase the inertial
mass of the object also increases. For speed significantly less than the speed
of light the increase of mass is nearly imperceptible, but as the speed of
light is approached, the mass starts to increases very rapidly towards
infinity. Theoretically the mass would become infinite if the object could be
accelerated all the way to the speed of light[c]. However because of
acceleration of an object in response to
a given force is inversely proportional
to its inertial mass , as the speed of light is approached the force is
required actually to reach the speed of the light also become infinite. It is impossible for a particle with mass to
reach the speed of light. At Fermilab, for example, when protons were
accelerated near close to the speed of light, and it takes a huge amount of
energy. The rest mass did not change
- however by definition, it is the mass,
or equivalent energy, of a particle while
at REST. The total energy is the particle's
rest mass energy plus it’s kinetic energy. Einstein discovered that the total
energy of a particle moving at speeds close to the speed of light (relativistic
speeds) is given as mc2/((1-(v2/c2)1/2).
The total energy - rest energy plus kinetic energy - changes, and that is what
you, as an "external observer" of a relativistic particle, can
measure. You can only measure rest mass if you are at rest relative to the
particle. A particle with non-zero rest-mass cannot be accelerated to the speed
of light. Put in other terms, the energy of a moving particle with rest-mass m
equals E=(r-1)mc2, where the factor r=1/sqrt(1-(v/c)2),
with v the speed of the particle and c the speed of light. You can use this
formula in an Excel sheet to try different values of rest-mass m and speed v.
This equation tells you that you need an infinite amount of energy to
accelerate a particle to (exactly) the
speed of light, however, you can always take it to, say 99.99999% the speed of
light with a finite (but huge) amount of energy. In the world of particle physics, a mass less particle is any particle
whose invariant rest mass is zero and in
spin Zero. Currently, the only known mass less particles are gauge bosons ( the
Spin is not however Zero for gauge bosons ): the photon particles (carrier of
electromagnetism) and the gluon particles (carrier of the strong force) and
Higgs particle. However, gluons are never observed
as free particles, since they are confined within hadrons. Neutrinos were
considered as mass less but Neutrinos later found to have zero rest mass. The
behavior of mass less particles is understood by virtue of special relativity.
For example, these particles must always move at the speed of light(c ). In
this context, they are sometimes may be called as luxons
to distinguish them from bradyons. Mass less particles are known to experience
the same gravitational acceleration as other particles (which provides
empirical evidence for the equivalence principle) because they do have
relativistic mass, which is what acts as the gravity charge. Thus,
perpendicular components of forces acting on mass less particles simply change
their direction of motion, the angle change in radians being GM/rc2
with gravitational lensing, a result predicted by general relativity. The
component of force parallel to the motion still affects the particle, but by
changing the frequency rather than the speed. This is because the momentum of a
mass less particle depends only on frequency and direction (compare with the
momentum of low speed massive objects, which depends on mass, speed, and
direction). Mass less particles move in straight lines in space-time, called
geodesics, and gravitational lensing relies on space-time curvature.
Gluon-gluon interaction is a little different: they exert forces on each other
but, because the acceleration is parallel to the line connecting them (albeit
not at simultaneous moments), the acceleration will be zero unless the gluons
move in a direction perpendicular to the line connecting them (so that velocity
is perpendicular to acceleration).
What most
physicists call mass (or "rest mass" if they want to be specific) is the absolute value of the
four-momentum, which is independent of reference frame. For things traveling at
speed is c, this was considered by Einstein as “zero mass” as “Photons”. So if
Photons travel at speed c (which, by the
way, is not necessary for relativity to work; "the speed of light" is
a misnomer), then they have only zero rest mass. But Photon
particle bends when it travel near a massive stellar mass say a massive
star by its gravity and if photon
particle does not have the mass how gravity pull photons towards another
massive body?
A photon
may be described by the equations E ɤ
=h v ɤ , p ɤ =h/ λ ɤ and E ɤ=p
ɤ c where h corresponds
with Planck's constant, E ɤ and p
ɤ are
the energy and momentum of the photon, v ɤ and p ɤ
are its frequency and wavelength, and c is the speed of light. In
addition, the rest-mass of a photon is near equal to zero but not exactly the
zero . The latter property has been a significant point of ɤ because application of de Broglie's electron relation to a photon yields that Planck's constant or
the frequency of a photon must be near equal to zero while the above equation
states that a photon's energy is different from zero. And what
is when the particle is in Intertia i. e I want to say “Zero Rest mass particles”
in super cooled state of the universe . Can any particle have Zero
mass when its Spin is Zero. We're so
used to talking about rest mass, and we people sometimes forget about the very basic
properties of the Lorentz group. The
photon doesn't really have a rest-mass,( i. e in intertia photon can not stay at all but boson can stay in interia
in form of Boson condensates ) since, strictly speaking, the Lorentz group is
non-compact and does not contain the transformation required to take one into
the "rest frame of a photon." While we can take limiting processes to
somewhat make sense of talking about a photon's zero rest-mass, this is not a
well-defined transformation in the Lorentz group so far we know. Rather, the
only way to talk about the inertia of a particle traveling at speed “ c “ is to
determine the 4-momentum in a physical frame of reference (v <c)., This gives the photon a finite, non-zero
mass for every physical frame of reference. We think it so. Not to
mention that when you consider General Relativistic effects, you really start
to see how it is energy-density and density of energy flow which determine the
inertial properties of particles and fields. This is what John Wheeler called
the Geometrodynamic Steering Principle as identifying the determiners of
inertia. Photons have a very small mass what ever small it is, and
hence move strictly less than "the speed of light" - 'c', there's
just no evidence that they don't, and on the contrary, plenty of reason to believe
they do.
Then is
there at all Possible existence of
faster-than-light(FTL) phenomena for highly accelerated elementary particles (Tachyons)-:
The possible existence of faster-than-light(FTL) particles, which are still forbidden by the known laws of physics,
have been studied by many physicists. But the existence of such particles has
not been confirmed yet by any experiments.
This article will show you that faster-than-light phenomena may be
permitted for highly accelerated elementary particles, if they have very small
mass compared to that of the electron. It is a
well known fact that nothing can travel faster than the speed of light.
At best, a mass less particle travels at the speed of light. But is this
really true? In 1962, Bilaniuk, Deshpande, and Sudarshan, Am. J. Phys. 30, 718 (1962), said "No!
It is not Possible" . Let us say
please you draw a graph, with momentum (p) on the x-axis, and energy (E) on the y-axis.
Then draw the "light cone", two lines with the equations E = ±p.
This divides our 1+1 dimensional space-time into two regions. Above and
below are the "Time like" quadrants, and to the left and right are
the "Space like" quadrants. Now the fundamental fact of relativity we
know is that
E² − p²
= m²
Where E is an object's energy, p is its momentum, and m is its rest mass, which we'll just
call 'mass'. In case you're wondering, we are working in units where c=1.
For any non-zero value of m, this is a hyperbola
with branches in the time like regions. It passes through the point (p
,E) = (0 ,m), where the particle is at rest. Any particle
with mass m is constrained to move on the upper
branch of this hyperbola. (Otherwise, it is "off shell", a term
you hear in association with virtual particles — but that's another
topic.) For mass less particles, E² = p²,
and then particles moves on the light-cone. These two cases were given
the names tardyon (or bradyon in more modern usage) and luxon, for "slow
particle" and "light particle". Tachyon is the name given
here to the supposed "fastest particle" which would move with v > c. Tachyons were first
introduced into physics by Gerald Feinberg, in his seminal paper "On the
possibility of faster-than-light particles" Published in journal Physics Review [Phys. Rev. 159,
1089—1105 (1967)]. A tachyon is a type of theoretical particle, with the
unusual property that it moves faster than the speed of light (FTL). The word
"Tachyon", was based on the
Greek for "swift." & Tachyon
have 'imaginary' zero rest mass. The
theory of relativity predicts that a particle can never be accelerated to a
speed faster than the speed of light, but physicists have long known that (in
theory, at least) it would be possible for particles to move faster than the speed
of light, as long as they don't have to accelerate to get there. Tachyons,
which always move this fast, are sometimes hypothesized in physics theories to
serve some useful purposes. Tachyons have never been found in experiments as
real particles traveling through the vacuum, but is predicted
theoretically that tachyon-like objects may exist as faster-than-light 'quasi particles'
moving through laser-like medias. (That is, they exist as particle-like
excitations, similar to other quasi particles called phonons and polaritons
that are found in solids. 'Laser-like media' is a technical term referring to
those media that have inverted atomic populations, the conditions prevailing
inside a laser. There are strong scientific reasons to believe that such quasi particles
really exist, because Maxwell's equations, when coupled to inverted atomic
media, lead inexorably to tachyon-like solutions.
Now another familiar relativistic equation is
E = m[ 1−(v/c)²]−½.
Tachyons
(if at
all they exist in the universe ) must have v > c. This means that E is here imaginary ! Well, what
if we take the rest mass m,
and take it to be imaginary? Then E is negative real, and E²
− p² = m² < 0. Or, p²
− E² = M², where M is real. This is a hyperbola
with branches in the space like region of space time. The energy and
momentum of a tachyon must satisfy this relation. You can now deduce many
interesting properties of tachyons. For example, they accelerate (p goes
up) if they lose energy (E goes
down). Furthermore, a zero-energy tachyon is "transcendent", or
moves infinitely fast. This has profound consequences. For example,
let's say that there were electrically charged tachyons. Since they would
move faster than the speed of light in the vacuum, they should produce “Cherenkov radiation”. This would lower their energy, causing them to
accelerate more! In other words, charged tachyons would probably lead to a runaway
reaction releasing an arbitrarily large amount of energy. This suggests
that coming up with a sensible theory of anything except free (non interacting) tachyons is likely to be difficult.
Heuristically, the problem is that we can get spontaneous creation of
tachyon-anti tachyon pairs, then do a runaway reaction, making the vacuum unstable. To
treat this precisely requires quantum field theory, which gets
complicated. It is not easy to summarize results here. However, one
reasonably modern reference is Tachyons, Monopoles, and Related
Topics, E. Recami, ed. (North-Holland, Amsterdam, 1978). However,
tachyons are not entirely invisible. You can imagine that you might
produce them in some exotic nuclear reaction. If they are charged, you
could "see" them by detecting the Cherenkov light they produce as
they speed away faster and faster.
Such experiments have been done but, so far, no tachyons have been found.
Even neutral tachyons can scatter off normal matter with experimentally
observable consequences. Again, no such tachyons have been found.How about using tachyons to transmit information faster than the speed of light, in violation of Special Relativity? It's worth noting that when one considers the relativistic quantum mechanics of tachyons, the question of whether they "really" go faster than the speed of light becomes much more touchy! In this framework, tachyons are waves that satisfy a wave equation. Let's treat free tachyons of spin zero, for simplicity. We'll set c = 1 to keep things less messy. The wave function of a single such tachyon can be expected to satisfy the usual equation for spin-zero particles, the Klein-Gordon equation:
(□ + m²) φ = 0
where
□ is the D'Alembertian, which in 3+1
dimensions is just
□ = ∂²/∂t² − ∂²/∂x²
− ∂²/∂y² − ∂²/∂z².
The
difference with tachyons is that m² is negative,
and so m is imaginary.To simplify the math a bit, let's work in 1+1 dimensions with co-ordinates x and t, so that
□ = ∂²/∂t² − ∂²/∂x².
Everything
we'll say generalizes to the real-world 3+1-dimensional case. Now,
regardless of m, any solution is a
linear combination, or superposition, of solutions of the form
Φ (t ,x) = exp (−I Et + I p
x)
where E²
− p² = m². When m²
is negative there are two essentially different cases. Either | p | ≥ | E |, in which case E is real and we get solutions that look
like waves whose crests move along at the rate | p/E | ≥ 1, i.e., no slower than the speed
of light. Or | p | < | E |, in which case E is imaginary and we get solutions that
look like waves that amplify exponentially as time passes!We can decide as we please whether or not we want to consider the second type of solution. They seem weird, but then the whole business is weird, after all.
(1) If we do permit the second type of solution, we can solve the Klein-Gordon equation with any reasonable initial data — that is, any reasonable values of φ and its first time derivative at t = 0. (For the precise definition of "reasonable", consult your local mathematician.) This is typical of wave equations. And, also typical of wave equations, we can prove the following thing: if the solution φ and its time derivative are zero outside the interval [−L, L] when t = 0, they will be zero outside the interval [−L− | t |, L + | t |] at any time t. In other words, localized disturbances do not spread with speed faster than the speed of light! This seems to go against our notion that tachyons move faster than the speed of light, but it's a mathematical fact, known as "unit propagation velocity".
(2) If we don't permit the second sort of solution, we can't solve the Klein-Gordon equation for all reasonable initial data, but only for initial data whose Fourier transforms vanish in the interval [−| m |, | m |]. By the Paley-Wiener theorem this has an odd consequence: it becomes impossible to solve the equation for initial data that vanish outside some interval [−L, L]! In other words, we can no longer "localize" our tachyon in any bounded region in the first place, so it becomes impossible to decide whether or not there is "unit propagation velocity" in the precise sense of part (1). Of course, the crests of the waves exp(−iEt + ipx) move faster than the speed of light, but these waves were never localized in the first place! The bottom line is that you can't use tachyons to send information faster than the speed of light from one place to another. Doing so would require creating a message encoded some way in a localized tachyon field, and sending it off at superluminal speed toward the intended receiver. But as we have seen you can't have it both ways: localized tachyon disturbances are subluminal and superluminal disturbances are nonlocal The energy potential of a Tachyon particle -according to Japanese scientist- features several millions of joules per centimeter cube and exhibiting a junction potential of some 800 millions of volts (1000 times more than sun). Tachyon-Energy is for free. Tachyon-Energy is limitless available. Tachyon-Energy is ubiquitary, in other words, accessible to all nations. Tachyon-Energy can be produced extremely polycentric: on any desired place on earth, on any desired quantity, without deficiency. The wavelength of Tachyons is approximate 10 to the power of 23. Tachyon-Energy does not lead to environmental pollution as no radioactive material, nor toxic waste nor are other toxins involved. There are different ways to use Tachyon-Energy: hereinafter we shall present some of them.
Possible Application of Tachyons - I
Through direct use of „gravity-storms“ via space-quantum-streams. These type of application suits for transforming the force of gravity into electrical energy: as a substitute for the common nuclear power plants, coal-fired power plants, oil-fired heating systems, car engines, etc. etc.
Possible Application – II Time machine and Time Travels in future
.Possible Application - III
By vacuum-field technology. This type of technology bases on the theory that two opposite energy waves “neutralize” themselves. In such a vacuum-field molecular structures can be transformed from chaotic ones into harmonical ones. This phenomena is also known as negative entropy order neg-entropie.
By the help of this technology appropriate material qualifies as “antennas” for Tachyon particles. So far we are quite successful using parts of this technology in combination with pure crystalline silicon and some noble metals. Science confirms that Tachyon Energy features anti-entropic properties; an inverse effect to chaos, confusion and decay.
Entropy is the definition for the chaos within a system: the bigger the entropy is, the bigger the confusion is. Natural living organisms show tendential anti-entropic behavior, in other words, the intuitively try to diminish any kind of confusion (chaos). Studies prove that imbalance within the energy-fields of beings will -sooner or later- manifest on a material level as ageing , tension, pain and illness. The anti-entropic effects of Tachyon Energy helps to balance the subtle energy fields in our physic body. The health implications could be named as holistic use of this type of energy: interactions in between mental and physical aspects are directly affected .Latest studies proves that the subtle energy fields in our physical body are balanced with Tachyons: an optimization of our homeostasis is achieved. Homeostasis stands for self-regulating functions assuring the maintenance and continuity of a specific system. Homeostasis is the property of a system that regulates its internal environment and tends to maintain a stable, constant condition of properties such as temperature.
One can communicate by a telephone faster then light may be called Tachyon telephone!
Tachyons can be source for energy in space ship
Conclusion
Question
remain still whether there is really any particle that moves faster then speed of
photon particles [ light particles?] We authors
here consider it may be possible through another particle called
“Tachyons Particles”, detected in 1974 by Roger Clay and Ohilip crouch of
Adelaide University in Australia. What
were Tachyon particles? Of course the
Super string theories that evolved from spinning string theories, that
incorporated supper symmetry and had no Tachyonic ground states. Tachyons are
still mathematical quirk of mathematicians with no physical meanings. Can these
tachyons be the missing Neutrinos particles with real zero rest mass as
found in OPERA Experiment ?
However Einstein’s equation E=mc2 shows “that nothing in this
observable universe, can cross the speed of
photons [ light particles]”. But tachyons have probably that
curious property of going faster then speed of light, as the particle mast
loose energy ,unlike other ordinary particles. It is still probably unknown,
whether within relativity theory (E=mc2]
solutions of Einstein, permit also two families of particles to exist -1) which
always have a speed less than light and 2)
other which always have speed greater than the light. If it permits the second one, then the later
particle must be tachyons or a kind of neutrinos whom we do not know yet or
called “missing neutrinos with zero rest mass”. If tachyons really exist then
many of our normal physical laws, laws of this universe are to be reversed.
The standard description of two families of
particles allowed by Einstein equations follows from the requirement that the
total energy of a particle is given by a formula ----à M0 C2
(1-(v/c)2)1/2. The key point being that taking the
square root (half Power) introduces two families of solutions. For zero
velocity, of course the expression reduces to mc2. Square root of negative numbers although allows
mathematically do not have physical significance and obvious interpretations of
this expression to give real total energies is the term (1-(v/c)2, must therefore be
positive or at least zero so that “v” is always less than or equal to “c” and
particles can never travel faster than
light. But there may be other ways to think also. Possibility with, imaginary mass (where I is the square
root of -1). In that case the situation will be reversed and in order to obtain
a real energy, we must take another square root of a negative number in order
that the imaginary . “I”s multiply out to-1. In other words for imaginary masses,
“v” must exceed “c”, so that (i-v/c)2)
is always negative. This is the origin of Tachyon.
But
suppose, we allow “v” to exceed “c” while maintain the real mass “m”. Now we
are taken into very strong realms-the imaginary part of space time. Might we
consider a tachyon particle with imaginary mass moving through the real part of
space time at a speed greater than that of light. Tachyons can then provide the
link between past and future and Future time travel
The OPERA experiment (The
OPERA collaboration 2011) reported a neutrinos particle beam traveling faster
than light. The experiment measured the distributions of neutrinos time
emission/detection over a baseline from the CERN to the Gran Sasso (CNGS) site.
Data are collected within runs lasting for several months1.
In these data, the neutrino beam time of flight (TOF) turns out to be
~60 ns shorter than that calculated by taking the speed of light in
vacuum.
References
[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Muon[2] http://www2.slac.stanford.edu/vvc/cosmicrays/cratmos.html
[3] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:First_neutrino_observation.jpg
4] http://math.ucr.edu/home/baez/physics/ParticleAndNuclear/tachyons.html
5] Bilaniuk, Deshpande and Sudarshan American j Physics 30;78;1962
6] Gerald Feinberg “on the Possibility of faster than Light particles “ Physics Rev 159;1089-1105;1967
7]Tachyons is an mathematical Imaginary particle that may move faster then Photons (Light particles) in the universe and yet to be discovered as comments in the Science Blogs.com
http://scienceblogs.com/principles/2011/09/24/faster-than-a-speeding-photon/#comment-43250
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