Philip Hart wondered aloud:
>On Wed, 12 May 2004, Greg Morrow wrote:
>> No, it won't, at least not under the Standard Model.
>
>Which is internally inconsistent at high energies...
Oh, you want to be pedantic, do you? Next you'll be complaining that
general relativity is inconsistent with quantum mechanics.
8)
> Note that neutrinos
>apparently have mass and are presumably subject to decay. I forget if the
>lightest supersymmetric particle may be lighter than neutrinos anyway.
The last statement I saw on neutrino mass was "0 < m << 1 eV" (by the group
who confirmed flavor rotation), so you're going to have to really be
setting new limits to be lighter....
Even if neutrinos decay via SUSY, the lifetime there is going to have to be
lots of orders of magnitude longer than proton decay, and even if they do,
they have to decay into SOMETHING. (I was assuming that positive
selectrons from proton decay eventually ended up at positrons, which would
nicely annihilate electrons and leave only photons, assuming a neutral
universe, but it occurs to me I have no idea if they do.)
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