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From article <24824@dog.ee.lbl.gov>, by sichase@csa2.lbl.gov (SCOTT I CHASE):
> In article <499@alden.UUCP>, sgr@ae-sun05 (Stan Ryckman) writes...
>> 
>>If _anything_ has a color, it does one or more of:
>>   a) emit optical photons;
>>   b) reflect optical photons;
>>   c) absorb optical photons; or
>>   d) refract optical photons.
>> 
>>No neutrino ever has been hypothesized by any physicist to interact
>>with photons in any such way.  If so, they'd be easy to detect.
> 
> Whoa!  Neutrinos most definitely can interact with photons of any
> wavelength.  After all, neutrinos have a magnetic moment (very small,
> not yet measured, upper limits only known so far) in the Standard
> Model.  Think of it this way - every neutrino spends part of its life
> looking alot like a W-lepton pair. 
> 
> And photons get involved in weak interactions through trilinear and 
> quadrilinear boson verticies, so even in first order some unfamiliar
> processes can lead to neutrino-photon interactions.  For example,
> neutrino + photon -> lepton + W* + photon -> lepton + W.
>
yea, but are they green?   :-)

-don.      (neutrinos are the little green things)