Does anyone have any up to date stuff on these sneaky little boogers?
Likewise, I'm no physicist, but I had a similar thought. There are neutrino counters/registers (I'm not sure of the correct nomenclature) located in a mine in (I think) Wales. The project involved is trying to record neutrino bombardment from space.I was thinking about this and had a crazy idea. I'm no physicist but...
As I understand it photons (light) are affected by gravity and neutrinos are not. This is why neutrinos can pass through enormous amounts of mass (like whole planets) without being affected and light cannot. This is also why the path of light gets bent by nearby objects.
So maybe neutrinos travelling close to the speed of light and unaffected by gravity can take a "shorter" route than light. So arriving early?
I was thinking about this and had a crazy idea. I'm no physicist but...
As I understand it photons (light) are affected by gravity and neutrinos are not. This is why neutrinos can pass through enormous amounts of mass (like whole planets) without being affected and light cannot. This is also why the path of light gets bent by nearby objects.
So maybe neutrinos travelling close to the speed of light and unaffected by gravity can take a "shorter" route than light. So arriving early?
I had read it as : "... affected only by the weak sub-atomic force, of much shorter range than electromagnetism and gravity, ..."Neutrinos do not carry electric charge, which means that they are not affected by the electromagnetic forces that act on charged particles such as electrons and protons. Neutrinos are affected only by the weak sub-atomic force, of much shorter range than electromagnetism, and gravity, which is relatively weak on the subatomic scale, and are therefore able to travel great distances through matter without being affected by it.
... Basically, it seems to be a case of 'watch this space'
Since their November result, the Icarus team have adjusted their experiment to do a speed measurement.
What was missing was information from Cern about the departure time of the neutrinos, which the team recently received to complete their analysis.
"I think they were a little bit in a hurry to publish something that was astonishing, and at the end of the day it was a wrong measurement."