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What is the difference between neutrinos and regular light photons? Do Neutrinos also exhibit the wave particle duality? Does this mean Albert Einstein was wr
by maeon3 15y ago
What is the difference between neutrinos and regular light photons? Do Neutrinos also exhibit the wave particle duality? Does this mean Albert Einstein was wrong, after all these years of assuming his "biggest blunder" was right?
- fleitz 15y agoPhotons interact much more easily with matter. Photons are massless whereas neutrinos are believed to have mass. Also, photons mediate the electromagnetic force where as neutrinos only interact with the weak subatomic force.
- neutronicus 15y agoPhotons are spin one, and mediate the electromagnetic interaction. They have zero mass and propagate at c. There are actually three types of neutrino (and they spontaneously change from one type to another), they are all spin-one-half, and they interact with other matter only via the weak nuclear force, which has a much smaller effective distance than the electromagnetic force, so they don't interact very often. They have non-zero mass, but it is so small that we don't actually know what it is. Everything in the universe exhibits the wave-particle duality.
- archgoon 15y ago>"biggest blunder" Einstein's self professed "biggest blunder" was the cosmological constant. That term has never referred to the assumption of lorentz invariance.
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