From: hitlong@yahoo.com   
      
   On Monday, August 16, 2021 at 6:14:48 AM UTC-6, Tom Roberts wrote:   
   >   
   > On 8/9/21 12:57 PM, Eric Flesch wrote:   
   >>   
   >> The problem with sub-c neutrinos is that they would all need to be   
   >> accelerated to near-c speed by their emitters.   
   >   
   > That's no different from any other decay or emission, in which the   
   > daughter particles emerge at high speed, often approaching or equal to   
   > c. But they are not "accelerated" to such speeds, they are created with   
   > such speeds -- a common aspect of elementary particle interactions.   
   >> Why so uniform? You'd expect to find some at slower speeds.   
   > The upper bound on the mass of the electron neutrino is 1.1 eV. The   
   > lowest-energy neutrinos detected are far above that energy, so one would   
   > NOT expect to detect such neutrinos with speeds measurably slower than   
   > c. Ditto for muon neutrinos, for which the upper bound on mass is 0.19 MeV.   
      
   Hmm, isn't the different in m² between the three neutrinos less than 0.1 eV?   
   Since the electron antineutrino mass is less than  an eV or so, wouldn't the   
   muon neutrino have mass on the same order?   
      
   Gary   
      
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