• niktemadur@lemmy.world
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    6 hours ago

    That’s just the half of it.
    Watch the weight on the scale fluctuate, as the kitty neutrino keeps adorably creepily gazing at you.

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    22 hours ago

    Do neutrinos not have mass? I think you mean electric charge.

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        6 hours ago

        As close to nothing as something can be and still exist… as far as we know.
        That mass is so small, and behaves so strangely (it fluctuates), that the theories say the neutrino does NOT get its’ tiny fluctuating mass from the Higgs Field.

        And if that ain’t a mind-blower of what is at the very edge of human knowledge and understanding of reality, I don’t know what is.

      • 🇰 🌀 🇱 🇦 🇳 🇦 🇰 ℹ️@yiffit.net
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        21 hours ago

        Science must make some scientists go insane when they can see something, know some of its properties and such, but you can’t empirically measure it or really prove it exists.

        “The neutrinos are just in your head, Wolfgang.”

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          15 hours ago

          Well the thing is: it’s even worse! We HAVE measured ‘the’ neutrino mass, sort of (not really). We have an absolutely fricking tiny upper bound! For all three masses added together… And yes, there are three separate neutrino masses just like there are sorta three ‘types’ of Neutrinos. But the real kicker is: it is literally impossible to assign any specific mass to any specific type!!

          You can either talk about the type of a neutrino OR it’s mass but not both at the same time because apparently we looked too close and quantum mechanics decided it needed to fuck with us some more to discourage further probing.

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          20 hours ago

          I feel like this trope should be applied to jobs outside of science. Like retail. Retail workers are just as prone to insanity and it’s up to us to make that romantic and cool in similar ways. Also science outside of physics, like geology.

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        21 hours ago

        really? I thought it was the same as a proton.

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          20 hours ago

          You’re thinking of a neutron. They are from memory a tiny bit heavier than a proton. Neutrinos are tiny.