fafalone Posted February 19, 2003 Share Posted February 19, 2003 What is the nature of the space between molecules, such as in air in in water? Is it a true vacuum, or is the presence of neutrinos not negligible in considering its properties. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
aman Posted February 20, 2003 Share Posted February 20, 2003 Since water in biology is usually full of ions, I would imagine it would be hard to find spaces for all the flowing electrons. The problem with air would be temperature and molecular movement. I'd imagine a structure like a real cold diamond might be best for having stable voids between the molecules. Metals pass electrons between the molecules and warm molecules bump. I don't know if it has been calculated yet the amount of neutrinos per square amount of molecular space there are around us. Since diamonds are so dense there should be a great deal of neutrino collision debris inside a diamond. It seems pretty difficult to sustain a void space or ideal vacuum between molecules for very long. Just aman Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Radical Edward Posted February 20, 2003 Share Posted February 20, 2003 I don't know... I doubt anyone really does, especially when one considers the border between the quantum and classical world, and the nature of the fields. Neutrinos are effectively discountable since their interactions are only weak, and very rare. When considering something like super kamiokande, then neutrinos aren't insignificant of course, or it wouldn't be there. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
fafalone Posted February 20, 2003 Author Share Posted February 20, 2003 Neutrino detectors look for direct collisions; but neutrinos do interact with matter, albeit extremely weekly. But consider the number of times this happens, I believe the number is on the order of 108/cm3/s Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Commander Cyrax Posted December 16, 2003 Share Posted December 16, 2003 I'm probably missing something obvious here but surely the space between molecules would be randomly filled by the electrons of the two molecules in question? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
VendingMenace Posted December 17, 2003 Share Posted December 17, 2003 of course asking whether or not the nuetrinos count doesn' t really answer the question then, does it? Rather, it changes the question to "what exists in the space between neutrinos?" And really this question is "can there exist an area of space in which nothing exists?" That is a great question. I will have to think about that alot before i can even begin to formulate an answer. Cool Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
NavajoEverclear Posted December 17, 2003 Share Posted December 17, 2003 hmmm i don't think i have any addition of knowledge, or any questions. Well i always have too many questions, right now i'm going to be logical and not get carried away. Anyway though i would be interested in the answer to that question Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
YT2095 Posted December 17, 2003 Share Posted December 17, 2003 an area of strong and weak nuclear forces providing both attraction and repulsion (and all stages in between) as a consequence of structure and the nature of the atoms involved. consider it an area of electronic flux Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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