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I have two questions about neutrinos that I haven't been able to figure out:
1. The evidence seems to indicate that neutrinos have rest mass. Since it is invisible to charge and electromagnetic fields and, apparently, gluon fields, how does it interact with matter at all? I think it may have something to do with it having a magnetic moment, but I also find the existence of a magnetic moment puzzling if it cannot interact with charges.
2. If the neutino lacked rest mass it would have to travel at the speed of light. Since it could not be an electromagnetic wave/particle (eg. photon) what kind of 'wave' could it be? (the lack of an answer may imply that it has rest mass).
AM
1. The evidence seems to indicate that neutrinos have rest mass. Since it is invisible to charge and electromagnetic fields and, apparently, gluon fields, how does it interact with matter at all? I think it may have something to do with it having a magnetic moment, but I also find the existence of a magnetic moment puzzling if it cannot interact with charges.
2. If the neutino lacked rest mass it would have to travel at the speed of light. Since it could not be an electromagnetic wave/particle (eg. photon) what kind of 'wave' could it be? (the lack of an answer may imply that it has rest mass).
AM