...which allowed Mr. Jarrah White to calculate exact doses each astronaut would get.
He certainly has not. In any case, anyone who claims they can calculate exact doses clearly does not understand what they are talking about. Further, if Jarrah had the data to carry out the calculation, he has not intergrated the proton flux over its differential energy range and accounted for particle attenuation, so his methods are far removed from anything that an engineer of medical physicist would produce, and do not represent standard practice in the field. He has been told this several times. According to Jarrah's calculations, protons and electrons can magically pass through the CM material without losing energy.
Furthermore, Jarrah uses a rem per hour figure from a shock generated CME the 1950's, and applies this to H-alpha solar flare data. He simply multiplies the rem per hour (25 or 100 from memory for his shock CME event) by the duration of each H-alpha event during teach Apollo mission to arrive at a dose figure. This poses two problems to my knowledge. Firstly, the H-alpha event does not release protons throughout its duration (if any at all). If particles are released, this occurs during the impulsive phase of the flare when reconnection of the coronal magnetic field occurs, which is less than the time of the H-alpha prominence. Secondly, flares are highly directed events, so not all are incident on the Moon-Earth system. There is a perfectly good example of this during the MARIE mission, where a solar flare was detected by the MARIE craft, but was not detected by probes in the vicinity of the Earth-Moon system. Jarrah has been told this fact, but still assumes that all solar flares are directed at Earth.
In any case, Jarrah's use of H-alpha events is highly flawed. The main threat for astronauts are shock generated CME events. This generally occurs when the CME speed is greater than 1800 km/s, causing a spatial separation between the electron and proton components of the solar plasma, which in turn creates a high E-field that accelerates protons towards the Earth. Such an SPE event did not occur during the Apollo missions. One occurred between missions in 1972. Again, Jarrah has been told this, and simply does not understand ithe physics, or is simply fueled by his own pride and ego to correct his position. I suggest the latter.
Do you want me to carry on? I can drag up the boy wonder's bremstrahlung calculation if you really want, where he took a dimensionless number and gave it a unit of energy, while using a formula that applies to electrons with energies that are higher than than those found in the van Allen belts. Do you want to discuss that facet of his work - yes or no please?
Jarrah's view of particle interactions with matter is highly linear, and I mean that in a mathematical sense. Sadly, much of the physics that describse those interactions is derived from quantum mechanics, which is not linear. So all of Jarrah's calculations are flawed based on first principles.
As for Jarrah and his honesty, he has been asked to submit his work for review by relevent experts in the field. So far he declines, and states that his work is peer reviewed, although he will not disclose the name of his reviewer. He's been at his game for several years now. If he had any claims he would write up his claims, have it reviewed and then present his proof to the world. He's far from honest.
