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I told Neil deGrasse Tyson we've already detected dark matter β and almost no one realizes it.
The particle's been in our detectors for decades. We just can't weigh it.
Neutrinos carry every property of dark matter, yet physicists still don't know the mass of all three flavors β only that each is at least a million times lighter than the electron. The fix isn't a bigger detector. It's weighing them against the entire volume of the universe.
We don't know the mass of 3 of the 17 elementary particles. All three are neutrinos.
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I told Neil deGrasse Tyson we've already detected dark matter β and almost no one realizes it.
The particle's been in our detectors for decades. We just can't weigh it.
Neutrinos carry every property of dark matter, yet physicists still don't know the mass of all three flavors β only that each is at least a million times lighter than the electron. The fix isn't a bigger detector. It's weighing them against the entire volume of the universe.
We don't know the mass of 3 of the 17 elementary particles. All three are neutrinos.
π¬ Get the transcript, fascinating bonus content, and my Monday M.A.G.I.C. Message: briankeating.com/yt
π Have a .edu email and live in the USA πΊπΈ? You automatically win a meteorite: BrianKeating.com/edu
π Subscribe: youtube.com/DrBrianKeating?sub_confirmation=1
π― Support Into the Impossible on Patreon β get my weekly M.A.G.I.C. Message, unfiltered bonus content, and live monthly Office Hours with me: patreon.com/drbriankeating
β Join this channel for perks, monthly Office Hours, and your name in the Member Roster at the end of every episode:
youtube.com/channel/UCmXH_moPhfkqCk6S3b9RWuw/join
π My books:
Losing the Nobel Prize (memoir): amzn.to/2sa5UpA
Think Like a Nobel Prize Winner: https://a.co/d/03ezQFu
Focus Like a Nobel Prize Winner: https://a.co/d/hi50U9U
Galileo's Dialogue (first-ever audiobook): https://a.co/d/iZPi9Un
π More:
πββοΈ Twitter: twitter.com/DrBrianKeating
βοΈ Blog: briankeating.com/blog
ποΈ Audio-only: briankeating.com/podcast
#intotheimpossible #briankeating #science #physics #astronomy #cosmology #podcast #universe #neutrinos
