Wednesday, February 24, 2010

Neutrinos

Neutrinos are one of the fundamental particles which make up the universe. Neutrinos do not carry an electric charge, so because of this, they are not affected by the electromagnetic forces which act on electrons. There are three different types of neutrinos known today and there is no further evidence of any additional neutrinos which exist. The neutrinos are able to pass through great distances in matter without being affected by it. Neutrinos are what give the sun it's power. The first experiment to detect electron neutrinos produced by the sun's burning reports that less than half the expected neutrinos are observed.
I would not be able to experiment with neutrinos as long as Dahcall and David did because I would not be able to handle people doubting my observations and experiments. Everybody's rude comments and joking remarks would throw me over the edge. They must of had a huge passion to research and study neutrinos because they stuck with it for so long. If I heard them calling my experiment crazy I would have stopped.
Neutrinos mass could account largely for what has come to be known as "dark matter". Neutrinos have such little mass that it is almost hard to measure it.

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