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Couldn't it be that the lack of interaction with the electro-weak force allows neutrinos to exceed the speed of a photon in a non-vacuum environment? Or is the
by fleitz 15y ago
Couldn't it be that the lack of interaction with the electro-weak force allows neutrinos to exceed the speed of a photon in a non-vacuum environment? Or is the article saying that the neutrinos exceed c?
edit: More questions, since photons are massless they should be unaffected by gravity except in the sense of following the curvature of spacetime. Could the non-zero mass of the neutrino mean that if you changed the experiment so it fired away from the earth mean that the neutrinos would travel "slower" than photons?
- sorbus 15y agoThe article seems to be saying that the neutrinos appear to have exceeded c. If it were just neutrinos moving faster than photons through some non-vacuum environment, that would be completely non-notable - experiments have already succeed in slowing light down to almost nothing, after all.