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I posted this question on Yahoo Answers and got no responses than I found this site and figured it would be more reliable...
I am no physicist but I have been reading up on particle physics for fun lately and have come across something i do not understand. We know that the mass of a neutrino is extremely small but non-zero. I couldn't find the exact measurement anywhere but then I thought that you should be able to solve it algebraically knowing that in Electron Capture: 1Proton + 1Electron = 1Neutron + 1ElectronNeutrino
Knowing the following:
Proton = 1.672621637 X 10^-27
Neutron = 1.67492729 X 10^-27
Electron = 9.10938215 X 10^-31
Electron Neutrino = variable x
After simple addition we can say that (1.67353258 X 10^-27) = (1.67492729 X 10^-27) + x
This would conclude that the mass of an electron neutrino (x) is approx. -1.39471 X 10^-30 which makes no sense.
I am clearly missing something here... I'm assuming that it has to do with the loss/gain of energy but I do not know. If its obvious what I did wrong please don't be a jerk about it, I'm only in High School and am just trying to learn some of this stuff via the internet.
Please enlighten me
I am no physicist but I have been reading up on particle physics for fun lately and have come across something i do not understand. We know that the mass of a neutrino is extremely small but non-zero. I couldn't find the exact measurement anywhere but then I thought that you should be able to solve it algebraically knowing that in Electron Capture: 1Proton + 1Electron = 1Neutron + 1ElectronNeutrino
Knowing the following:
Proton = 1.672621637 X 10^-27
Neutron = 1.67492729 X 10^-27
Electron = 9.10938215 X 10^-31
Electron Neutrino = variable x
After simple addition we can say that (1.67353258 X 10^-27) = (1.67492729 X 10^-27) + x
This would conclude that the mass of an electron neutrino (x) is approx. -1.39471 X 10^-30 which makes no sense.
I am clearly missing something here... I'm assuming that it has to do with the loss/gain of energy but I do not know. If its obvious what I did wrong please don't be a jerk about it, I'm only in High School and am just trying to learn some of this stuff via the internet.
Please enlighten me