Forums before death by AOL, social media and spammers... "We can't have nice things"
|    sci.physics.research    |    Current physics research. (Moderated)    |    17,516 messages    |
[   << oldest   |   < older   |   list   |   newer >   |   newest >>   ]
|    Message 16,703 of 17,516    |
|    raymond.yohros@gmail.com to Tom Roberts    |
|    Re: Neutrino speed and mass    |
|    30 Mar 20 22:40:10    |
      On Friday, March 27, 2020 at 3:17:02 AM UTC-5, Tom Roberts wrote:       > On 3/26/20 12:44 AM, raymond.yohros@gmail.com wrote:       > > Why then can we not determine what % of the speed of light       > > the [neutrinos] where traveling at and with some algebra as usual       > > determine their masses as well?       >       > The resolution in measuring their speed is too poor to distinguish it       > from c, by many orders of magnitude. So their mass cannot be determined       > from their speed. And as the moderator mentioned, one would also need to       > know the energy of the neutrinos.       >              Ice cube detected neutrinos in the order of 1 Pev's(bert and ernie)       and big bird was 2 Pev's!       That may be around 2 magnitude orders higher than protons       spinning on the LHC!              of course the sources and flight times of these cosmic       neutrinos where undetermined but there are clues about where       In the sky they may have come to point telescopes.       one of those may have been a blazar, PKS B1424-418              The point i tried to make in my second post was that we       may be tempted to think that their masses may not be       fixed values beside their 3 stable eigenstates.              And this is not the first time we observe something like this in nature       You may say that a z bosons may be 91.19 Gev/c2       But you can find them at other values with less probabilities!              Flying at variable speeds, variable mass distributions,       Fermions but with some bosonic characteristics, this       Particles truly hold the answers to the best       question we can ask.              cheers       r.y              --- SoupGate-Win32 v1.05        * Origin: you cannot sedate... all the things you hate (1:229/2)    |
[   << oldest   |   < older   |   list   |   newer >   |   newest >>   ]
(c) 1994, bbs@darkrealms.ca