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Attila Grandpierre

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arXiv2011

Fundamental Complexity Measures of Life

At present, there is a great deal of confusion regarding complexity and its measures (reviews on complexity measures are found in, e.g. Lloyd, 2001 and Shalizi, 2006 and more references therein). Moreover, there is also confusion regarding the nature of life. In this situation, it seems the task of determining the fundamental complexity measures of life is especially difficult. Yet this task is just part of a greater task: obtaining substantial insights into the nature of biological evolution. We think that without a firm quantitative basis characterizing the most fundamental aspects of life, it is impossible to overcome the confusion so as to clarify the nature of biological evolution. The approach we present here offers such quantitative measures of complexity characterizing biological organization and, as we will see, evolution.

physics.bio-ph↗

arXiv2010

Dynamism in the solar core

Recent results of a mixed shell model heated asymmetrically by transient increases in nuclear burning indicate the transient generation of small hot spots inside the Sun somewhere between 0.1 and 0.2 solar radii. These hot bubbles are followed by a nonlinear differential equation system with finite amplitude non-homologous perturbations which is solved in a solar model. Our results show the possibility of a direct connection between the dynamic phenomena of the solar core and the atmospheric activity. Namely, an initial heating about DQ_0 ~ 10^{31}-10^{37} ergs can be enough for a bubble to reach the outer convective zone. Our calculations show that a hot bubble can arrive into subphotospheric regions with DQ_final ~ 10^{28} - 10^{34} ergs with a high speed, up to 10 km s-1, approaching the local sound speed. We point out that the developing sonic boom transforms the shock front into accelerated particle beam injected upwards into the top of loop carried out by the hot bubble above its forefront traveling from the solar interior. As a result, a new perspective arises to explain flare energetics. We show that the particle beams generated by energetic deep-origin hot bubbles in the subphotospheric layers have masses, energies, and chemical compositions in the observed range of solar chromospheric and coronal flares. It is shown how the emergence of a hot bubble into subphotospheric regions offers a natural mechanism that can generate both the eruption leading to the flare and the observed coronal magnetic topology for reconnection. We show a list of long-standing problems of solar physics that our model explains. We present some predictions for observations, some of which are planned to be realized in the near future.

astro-ph.SR↗

arXiv2008

Biological Extension of the Action Principle: Endpoint Determination beyond the Quantum Level and the Ultimate Physical Roots of Consciousness

We show that when we endow the action principle with the overlooked possibility to allow endpoint selection, it gains an enormous additional power, which, perhaps surprisingly, directly corresponds to biological behavior. The biological version of the least action principle is the most action principle. For the first time, we formulate here the first principle of biology in a mathematical form and present some of its applications of primary importance.

physics.gen-ph↗

arXiv2002

Variations of Core Luminosity and Solar Neutrino Fluxes

In a Dynamic Solar Model (DSM) the temperature dependences of the pp cycle neutrinos will be different from the ones determined by solar model calculations with the luminosity constraint. Instead of the usual neutrino fluxes pp ~ T^{-1/2}, Be ~ T^8, B ~ T^{18}, we determined by the nuclear reaction rates formulas pp ~ T^{4.2}, Be ~ T^{-1/2}, B ~ T^{13.5}, for $τ< 10^2$ years. These latter relations have high significance at estimating the uncertainties of the solar central temperatures without assuming the luminosity constraint. Although the purely astrophysical solutions seem to be ruled out, this is not the case for a model in which astrophysical effects are included besides the neutrino oscillations. Therefore a combined, DSM+MSW model is suggested to calculate the observed solar neutrino fluxes. The combined SSM+MSW fits to the rates+spectra+D/N changes give a bad fit to the total rates, indicating the need to include the astrophysical factors besides the MSW effect. The DSM suggest that the core dynamics is induced by intermittent events of dissipation of rotational energy in the solar core, in relation to angular momentum dissipation arising from the relative motion of the Sun and the mass center of the Solar System, and it shifts the allowed ranges of the MSW parameters into a more acceptable region. The role of the astrophysical factors in the solar neutrino problem is behind the fact why the ``smoking guns'' of neutrino oscillations are not found yet.

astro-ph↗

arXiv2002

Thermal metastabilities in the solar core

Linear stability analysis indicates that solar core is thermally stable for infinitesimal internal perturbations. For the first time, thermal metastabilities are found in the solar core when outer perturbations with significant amplitude are present. The obtained results show that hot bubbles generated by outer perturbations may travel a significant distance in the body of the Sun. These deep-origin hot bubbles have mass, energy, and chemical composition that may be related to solar flares. The results obtained may have remarkable relations to activity cycles in planets like Jupiter and also in extrasolar planetary systems.

astro-ph↗

arXiv2000

New type astrophysical solution to the solar neutrino problems and its predicitons to the SNO

The anomalously slow rotation of the solar core is just one from a remarkable lists of fundamental indications showing that the solar core is somehow coupled to the surface activity cycle. On the other hand, the atmospheric, LSND and solar neutrino problems are not consistent, therefore one or more of the neutrino experiments must be attributed - at least in part - to some phenomena other than neutrino oscillations, or a fourth neutrino is required. We use the luminosity constraint in a general case not considered yet, taking into account nuclear reactions occurring in small hot bubbles indicated to be present in the solar core (Grandpierre, 2000). The dynamic solar model fit the observed neutrino fluxes within one-and-half sigma even without oscillations. This fit is shown to be better than the present day MSW and VAC fits. An attracting perspective is obtained for a simultaneous solution of the neutrino problems and the solar core-related astrophysical problems. Predictions of the dynamic solar model are presented for the SNO measurements.

astro-ph↗

arXiv1998

A Dynamic Solar Core Model: On the Activity-Related Changes of the Neutrino Fluxes

The energy sources of the Sun may actually involve a thermonuclear runaway energy source present in stellar energy producing regions. I consider the conjectures of the derived model for the solar neutrino fluxes in case of a solar core allowed to vary in relation to the surface activity cycle. The observed neutrino flux data suggest a solar core possibly varying in time. In the dynamic solar model the quiet and runaway energy sources together may produce quasi-constant flux in the SuperKamiokande because it is sensitive to neutral currents, axions and anti-neutrinos, too. I calculate the contributions of the runaway source to the individual neutrino detectors. The results of the dynamic solar core model suggest that since the HOMESTAKE detects mostly the high energy electron neutrinos, therefore the HOMESTAKE data may aniticorrelate with the activity cycle. Activity correlated changes are expected to be present only marginally in the GALLEX and GNO data. The gallium detectors are sensitive mostly to the pp neutrinos, and the changes of the pp neutrinos arising from the SSM-like core is mostly compensated by the high-energy electron neutrinos produced by the hot bubbles of the dynamic energy source. The results suggest that the GALLEX data may show an anti-correlation, while the SuperKamiokande data may show a correlation with the activity cycle. Predictions of the dynamic solar model are presented for the SNO and Borexino experiments which can distinguish between the effects of the MSW mechanism and the consequences of the dynamic solar model. The results of the dynamic solar model are consistent with the present heioseismic measurements and can be checked with future heioseismic measurements as well. Keywords: solar neutrino problems - solar activity - thermonuclear runaways

hep-ph↗

arXiv1998

A Dynamic Solar Core model: the SSM-like solution

I point out that the all the arguments against an astrophysical solution do not exclude a yet not recognised class of solar models, in which an explosive energy source is present in the solar core besides the standard pp and CNO cycle. It is shown from first principle physics that stars have a non-pp,CNO source: local thermonuclear runaways. I derive a model independent inequality, which shows that the problem of the missing beryllium neutrinos lies in that the SuperKamiokande contains a term arising from neutrinos from a runaway source which can produce high-energy electrons and high-energy axions, and muon and tau neutrinos. I point out, that the temperature dependence of the individual neutrino fluxes is related to pure nuclear physics but the usual luminosity constraint is model dependent and actually is a questionable assumption. Allowing non-pp,CNO reaction chains a new approach arises to interpret the neutrino detector data. The explicit temperature dependence leads to $Φ_{pp} \propto T^4$ instead of the usual $Φ_{pp} \propto T^{-1/2}$ for the SSM luminosity constraint. I assume a Sun analogue to the SSM with a different $T_c$. The separate neutrino detector equations lead to separate detector-related temperatures with the neutrino detector data. The results show a slightly lower than standard central temperature. I attempt to show that helioseismology is not in a necessary conflict with the dynamic solar model presented here. The results of the calculations may propose solutions to the problems of solar and atmospheric neutrino oscillations without an ad hoc introduction of sterile neutrinos and present predictions to Borexino and SNO measurements. {\it PACS numbers}: 26.65+t, 26.30.+k, 96.60Jw, 95.30.Cq

astro-ph↗

arXiv1998

A Dynamic Solar Core Model: the Deviant Temperatures Approach

I derive here a model independent inequality which shows that the problem of the missing beryllium neutrinos of the Sun roots in the fact that the SuperKamiokande contains a term arising from a non-pp,CNO source. First principle physics shows that the non-pp,CNO source is of thermonuclear runaway origin. Several indications suggest that the non-pp,CNO term plays a more significant role in the solar neutrino problems than neutrino oscillations. When removing the over-restricted SSM luminosity constraint, the temperature dependence of the neutrino fluxes is related to pure nuclear physics and follows $Φ_{pp} \propto T^4$ instead of $Φ_{pp} \propto T^{-1/2}$. The results of the calculations offer solutions to the solar neutrino problems and problems of neutrino oscillations. The dynamic solar model presents predictions to Borexino and SNO measurements. These predictions can serve to distinguish between the MSW and the non-pp,CNO effect. {\it PACS numbers|: 26.65.+t, 26.30.+k, 96.60.JW, 95.30.Cq

astro-ph↗

arXiv1998

The dynamic energy source of the Sun and the duplicity of the stellar energy production

Some possible ways of the energy production with fusion reactions in the Sun was explored theoretically in the first half of this century. Nowadays it is a standard view that the Sun produces its energy on a uniform level. I point out, that in the stellar and solar energy production a dynamic energy source is necessarily present behind the uniform one, and generates a direct connection between the core and the surface layers through tunnels.

astro-ph↗