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Chris Wagner wrote:
> 
> James Grady Ward wrote:
> > >     It is interesting to note that neutrino's travel at 1.0c
> > > irrespective of the material, and so break the local speed of light. The
> > > particle will emit an EM radiation known as Cerenkov Radiation.
> >
> > it has not been verified yet if neutrinos are actually massless yet,
> > but if they are yes they would travel at c through just about anything.
> 
> If neutrinos were massless then they'ld be photons.  All radiations
> (photons, beta, alpha, missles, baseballs, etc) obey the dual particle/
> wave nature of matter.

technicly you are right, we define a photon as a massless particle so
if they are massless they should be called photons.  but here is where
a little reality sets in, neutrions behave much differinently than
light photons so people dont worry about the minor techincal glitch
caused by not calling them some type of photon and let photon just
be the term for light photons.  it is just a question of definitions
anyway.

umm hate to tell you this, but  alpha  radiation is just a helium
nucleus(ie 2 nuetrons and 2 protons).  alpha radiation is most
definitely
a particle and does not act like a wave in anyway.  and since
when is baseballs considered radation???

>  The wavelength is dependent on the velocity
> and the mass.  When the mass term is zero, you have a photon.
> Increasing
> the mass decreases the wavelength.  Thats why Intel invented heavy ion
> lithography to replace the current X-ray lithography.  They can make
> smaller transitors.  Anyway, only massless particles can travel at c,
> and the only massless particle is the photon, according to the equation.

the only massless particle CURRENTLY know is the light photon, no one
has been able to fully verify that neutrinos have mass.  it almost
impossible to even detect one in the first place.  but as soon as
someone
can measure how fast they travel we will know, until then it is not
going to be know if they are massless or just have an incrediblly low
mass.

it is hoped that neutrinos have some mass, since if they do then
the 90% of the universe that exists as dark matter will then be
known without having to resort to really weird things to explain
it.

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