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RE: A breakthrough in astrophysics - observation of a first powerful engine to accelerate cosmic rays
You mentioned that neutrinos travel in a straight line. However space itself is curved via relativistic effects caused by massive objects (as when gravitational lensing is observed). Doesn't that mean that neutrinos need to follow a "curved" path. Am I understanding this incorrectly?
Thanks for the precision, that is entirely correct. Neutrinos are affected by gravity, as everything. Their mass being tiny, their trajectory is actually close to the photon one.
Note that with the energy range considered here, they are barely affected by any gravitational potential and can escape very easily.
No EM interference maybe
I beg your pardon? :D
? @blockchainyouth Electro-Magnetic? Just curious to the thoughts.
I am as you here. I still do not understand what (s)he meant :)
Well, maybe just a thought, it would take a massive EMP to affect the neutrino. It might be interesting to look at the effects of a coronal mass ejection or a supernova, versus the star's gravitational pull. Perhaps that was the intent of the question.
Then the answer would be: the neutrino is totally non-sensitive to electromagnetism and therefore does not care about electromagnetic fields populating space .
Moreover, it also interacts so weakly, even gravitationally, so that it is barely affected by any gravitational field too.
the lack of mass ?
neutrinos arent wimps lol ... okay ... if i hang around here for another ten years i might get a clue hahah
Neutrinos are not that massive. By WIMPS, we are really considering something heavier. It is just a matter of scale :)
Thank you so much sir.