▲ 180 ▼ Global antineutrinos emitted from nuclear power stations (i.ibb.co) submitted 3 years ago by zksmk@sopuli.xyz [M] to c/map_enthusiasts@sopuli.xyz 18 comments fedilink hide all child comments
[+] stebo02@lemmy.dbzer0.com 5 points 3 years ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 child) [deleted] permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 2 child comments replies: [–] zksmk@sopuli.xyz [S] 11 points 3 years ago (1 child) That's a good question, but no. It was just a bit of word play. Antineutrinos are not WIMPs. WIMPs are weakly interacting massive particles. Antineutrinos are anything but massive, they're almost massless, so massless that they were, for the longest time, thought to be massless. They can be a product of dark matter, as speculated, but they aren't it tho. permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 2 child comments replies: [+] stebo02@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 point 3 years ago* (last edited 1 year ago) [deleted] permalink fedilink source parent
[–] zksmk@sopuli.xyz [S] 11 points 3 years ago (1 child) That's a good question, but no. It was just a bit of word play. Antineutrinos are not WIMPs. WIMPs are weakly interacting massive particles. Antineutrinos are anything but massive, they're almost massless, so massless that they were, for the longest time, thought to be massless. They can be a product of dark matter, as speculated, but they aren't it tho. permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 2 child comments replies: [+] stebo02@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 point 3 years ago* (last edited 1 year ago) [deleted] permalink fedilink source parent
[+] stebo02@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 point 3 years ago* (last edited 1 year ago) [deleted] permalink fedilink source parent