RE: Could this explian what Dark matter and Dark energy is?
June 10, 2016 at 5:52 am
(This post was last modified: June 10, 2016 at 5:56 am by Alex K.)
Blueyedlion,
Irrespective of what this person says (who seems to have a bit too much of a poetic bent for their own good), Neutrinos are only interacting so little with ordinary matter because the forces they are subject to are mediated by the W and Z bosons, and because those W and Z bosons are so heavy, the interaction is super short-ranged, thus making their collisions with atoms rare. Nothing about this is particularly mysterious, and no, they don't inhabit a different universe. I'll happily elaborate on this if you are actually interested in the science.
By the way, this isn't so true any more for very high energy neutrinos - people thinking about building Muon colliders have to worry about the health effects of the high energy neutrino radiation emanating from decaying muons - high energy neutrinos can be a very real, and very ordinary, radiation hazard which has nothing otherworldly to it.
Irrespective of what this person says (who seems to have a bit too much of a poetic bent for their own good), Neutrinos are only interacting so little with ordinary matter because the forces they are subject to are mediated by the W and Z bosons, and because those W and Z bosons are so heavy, the interaction is super short-ranged, thus making their collisions with atoms rare. Nothing about this is particularly mysterious, and no, they don't inhabit a different universe. I'll happily elaborate on this if you are actually interested in the science.
By the way, this isn't so true any more for very high energy neutrinos - people thinking about building Muon colliders have to worry about the health effects of the high energy neutrino radiation emanating from decaying muons - high energy neutrinos can be a very real, and very ordinary, radiation hazard which has nothing otherworldly to it.
The fool hath said in his heart, There is a God. They are corrupt, they have done abominable works, there is none that doeth good.
Psalm 14, KJV revised edition
