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Originally Posted by pornguy
I was disappointed that they did not go more into the history of why this is even being talked about.
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Because they did not recreate the disasters being discussed or associated with the 2012 hysteria. They took an everyday event and blew it up.
Neutrinos are super small particles that pass through solid matter effortlessly. They are so small that there is almost no chance of them interacting with any sub-atomic particles in matter. You have them streaming through your body even as you read this. Image two cells in your body with the same amount of distance between the earth and the sun. Now throw a Volkswagen Bug through the mid point between the two and you have the idea of the size of a neutrino.
The science behind 2012 is that the neutrino levels increased so significantly that it was colliding with matter within the earths core. Any sub-atomic particle they encounter is summarily destroyed or damaged creating a chain reaction.
They only problem is, and the reason that I was disappointed in the movie, is that these same collisions(interactions) would be also evident in humans. The neutrinos would damage cells, strip away segments of DNA, and cause gross aberrations in the body leading to a myriad of conditions, chiefly cell mutation, cancers and destruction or interruptions of organ functions (brain). These events would happen at an alarming rate and would show almost immediately as the entire human population would be affected. Long before anything happened to the earth.
Of course they could say that the increasing gravity on the neutrinos path to the core caused them to condense but this too would be wrong. Neutrinos have a non-zero mass and travels near the speed of light. Gravity being the weakest force by far in the universe it would have very little if any effect on the neutrino.
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