WHAT IS NEUTRINO?
WHAT IS A NEUTRINO?
We've heard of atoms, the basic building blocks of
ordinary matter. Atoms can join together to form molecules, which in turn form
most of the objects around you. But have you heard of a Neutrino? Neutrinos are
one of the fundamental particles which make up the universe.
They are also one of the least understood. Neutrinos
are similar to the more familiar electron, with one crucial difference:
1. Neutrinos do not carry electric charge. Because
neutrinos are electrically neutral, they are not affected by the
electromagnetic forces which act on electrons.
2. Neutrinos are affected only by a "weak"
sub-atomic force of much shorter range than electromagnetism, and are therefore
able to pass through great distances in matter without being affected by it.
3. If neutrinos have mass, they also interact
gravitationally with other massive particles, but gravity is by far the weakest
of the four known forces.
4. The 4 known forces are gravity, electromagnetic,
the strong force, and the weak force.
5. Three types of neutrinos are known; there is
strong evidence that no additional neutrinos exist. Each type of neutrino is
related to a charged particle (which gives the corresponding neutrino its
name).
6. The "electron neutrino" is associated
with the electron, and two other neutrinos are associated with heavier versions
of the electron called the muon and the tau (elementary particles are
frequently labelled with Greek letters, to confuse the layman).
7. Traveling a distance of 454 miles, the ghostly
subatomic particles neutrinos still appear to be traveling faster than the
speed of light.
8. The trip would take a beam of light 2.4
milliseconds to complete, but after running the experiment for three years and
timing the arrival of 15,000 neutrinos, the scientists discovered that the
particles arrived at Gran Sasso sixty billionths of a second earlier, with an
error margin of plus or minus 10 billionths of a second.
9. The result is so unlikely that even the research
team is being cautious with its interpretation.
10. Some researches believe it is some sort of
spirit or God, which you can measure but you cannot touch or feel. It's a whole
new universe out there filled with neutrinos. Neutrinos are mysterious
particles.
They have a minuscule mass, no electric charge, and
pass through almost any material as though it was not there.
11. Subir Sarkar, head of particle theory at Oxford
University, said: "If this is proved to be true it would be a massive,
massive event. It is something nobody was expecting."
12. "The constancy of the speed of light
essentially underpins our understanding of space and time and causality, which
is the fact that cause comes before effect."
13. One theory Kostelecky and his colleagues put
forward in 1985 predicted that neutrinos could travel faster than the speed of
light by interacting with an unknown field that lurks in the vacuum. Scary
stuff? I think it's awesome. So much we can achieve in the future if Neutrinos
are true!
As a Muslim, I believe that it is Allah showing His
true powers in the size of tiny particles called Neutrinos.
-Master Freddy-
[Science and Tech]
-Master Freddy-
[Science and Tech]
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