(December 17, 2015 at 1:02 pm)Brian37 Wrote: Ok correct me if I am wrong, what is the difference, and mind you, I am basing this on the science I got off of the COSMOS series with Neil. What is the difference between a Boson particle and say a neutrino? My understanding from that show is that neutrinos are really fucking tiny to the point of like being a baseball on a field and the field being an atom and the neutrino passing between the bases and pitchers mound.
I think CERN is fucking amazing that they can take atoms and smash them like testing cars.
So first off, Neutrinos are Fermions. This means that they adhere to the pauli exclusion principle that no two can be in the same state in the same place, and they have a spin of half a plancks unit insted of 0 or 1. Concerning their size: all elementary particles we know are effectively treated as points without spatial extent - we have no evidence that any of them have any spatial size on the scales we can currently probe at colliders. This is the same for bosons and fermions. The alleged new resonance has a much much higher mass than the known neutrinos by 10 orders of magnitude or more. This has nothing to do with their size though.
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