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From: calvin on 13 Apr 2010 15:32
In the movie 2012, extraordinary solar activity caused
a larger than normal amount of neutrinos to bombard
the earth, and those neutrinos then 'mutated' into a
form that caused the earth's core to heat up. How
did that neutrino mutation work exactly?
From: OG on 13 Apr 2010 15:56

"calvin" <crice5(a)windstream.net> wrote in message
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> In the movie 2012, extraordinary solar activity caused
> a larger than normal amount of neutrinos to bombard
> the earth, and those neutrinos then 'mutated' into a
> form that caused the earth's core to heat up. How
> did that neutrino mutation work exactly?

The fictionium process.


From: Puppet_Sock on 13 Apr 2010 16:31
On Apr 13, 3:56 pm, "OG" <o...(a)gwynnefamily.org.uk> wrote:
> "calvin" <cri...(a)windstream.net> wrote in message
>
> news:b447bc7d-e35f-406e-9074-82b6dcd21a1e(a)u34g2000yqu.googlegroups.com...
>
> > In the movie 2012, extraordinary solar activity caused
> > a larger than normal amount of neutrinos to bombard
> > the earth, and those neutrinos then 'mutated' into a
> > form that caused the earth's core to heat up.  How
> > did that neutrino mutation work exactly?
>
> The fictionium process.

Those were mighty slippery fictons. I mean, the Earth abruptly
rotated something like 30 degrees. (I've suppressed much of
the movie, so I don't recall the exact figure.) And all that
happened was some big waves.

Still, the scene with the small plane flying under the collapsing
freeway was pretty cool. It didn't make up for the rest of the
silly flick, but it was cool. And any movie that has Woody
Harrelson in it can't be all good.
Socks
From: Sam Wormley on 13 Apr 2010 16:43
On 4/13/10 2:32 PM, calvin wrote:
> In the movie 2012, extraordinary solar activity caused
> a larger than normal amount of neutrinos to bombard
> the earth, and those neutrinos then 'mutated' into a
> form that caused the earth's core to heat up. How
> did that neutrino mutation work exactly?

Really nothing to do with you fictional story question, but
you might find it interesting that contributions to the supernova
1987A includes shock wave bounce and a tremendous outpouring of
neutrinos. In the case of SN 1987A

o total anti-neutrino energy 3 x 10^52 erg
o total neutrino energy 2.5 x 10^53 erg
o total neutrino luminosity 10^55 erg/s
o average neutrino temperature 4 MeV or 10^10 K
o number of neutrinos produced 10^58 neutrinos
o neutrino flux density at the earth 5 x 10^10 /cm^2

From: calvin on 13 Apr 2010 17:30
On Apr 13, 4:31 pm, Puppet_Sock <puppet_s...(a)hotmail.com> wrote:
> On Apr 13, 3:56 pm, "OG" <o...(a)gwynnefamily.org.uk> wrote:
> > "calvin" <cri...(a)windstream.net> wrote:
> > > In the movie 2012, extraordinary solar activity caused
> > > a larger than normal amount of neutrinos to bombard
> > > the earth, and those neutrinos then 'mutated' into a
> > > form that caused the earth's core to heat up.  How
> > > did that neutrino mutation work exactly?
>
> > The fictionium process.
>
> Those were mighty slippery fictons. I mean, the Earth abruptly
> rotated something like 30 degrees. (I've suppressed much of
> the movie, so I don't recall the exact figure.) And all that
> happened was some big waves.
> ...

I don't remember any sudden rotation, but the earth's
axis shifted so that the south pole was at Milwaukie,
if I recall correctly. Of course that would imply a
sudden change in the direction of the earth's rotation.
The cause and effects of the axis shift were never
explained, however.
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