And that that would account for a sizable chunk of the dark matter in the universe?
I'm sure I heard that somewhere...
I'm sure I heard that somewhere...
The theoretical upper limit was around ~50 EV last time I paid attention, and I think they nailed it down somewhere around .28 eV, for scale an electron is about 2 million times more massive than that, and a proton or neutron around 4 billion times that. Neutrinos typically pop up in fusion level events paired to those guys, and the sun for instance spews out 2E38 every second, which sounds really impressive but is about a hundred kilograms a second. Now the entire galaxy emits pretty much in line with that, call it 2E49 of them, or 10e13, 10 Gigatons of neutrinos every second. Assume an effective 300,000 light years radius for us to care, these things moving at near light speed thus out of the galaxy, and you're looking at about 10E13 seconds or 10^26 kg of neutrinos in the general galactic region, roughly the mass of Neptune. That was raw napkin-math so it could be anywhere between Earth Mass and Jupiter, hell maybe even Sol itself, but pitifully tiny compared to the combined galactic mass even if we take those old theoretical upper bounds. Even if they didn't leave the galaxy as fast as they could, which they certainly do moving hundreds of times faster than the escape velocity of the galaxy and cheerfully able to slam through pretty much anything, the entire 10 billion year production time would only raise our figure to about 10E31, again the mass of the Sun. Pretty much no matter how you massage the data for upper bounds there's no way neutrinos can account for hidden mass in galaxies.
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New Theory proposes alternative to Dark Energy in favor of Time running out
19/06/2012 01:59:31 AM
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Does this have any implications regarding heat death? *NM*
19/06/2012 02:58:39 AM
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Oh, I see. It will just be timeless. *NM*
19/06/2012 02:59:28 AM
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It would more or less amount to the same thing anyway
19/06/2012 03:07:09 AM
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"A lukewarm homogeneous thin vacuum where nothing meaningful can occur."
30/06/2012 10:06:43 PM
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I don't like the theory of dark energy, either, but how do you account for the bending of light?
19/06/2012 03:08:03 PM
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Unlesss you're talking about Sachs-Wolfe Effect I think you mean Dark Matter
19/06/2012 03:59:03 PM
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Yes. That is what I meant.
19/06/2012 08:14:53 PM
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Well, again, Dark Matter & Dark Energy aren't all that related, there's Dark Fluid, Dark Flow, etc
19/06/2012 09:24:44 PM
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Didn't they decide that neutrinos do have mass?
20/06/2012 12:23:14 AM
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Very, very negligible mass
20/06/2012 01:02:00 AM
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NSSP_ I would just like to say this has been the BEST POST of rafo history. short as it may be. *NM*
07/07/2012 12:08:03 AM
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Wow, thanks, and I would just like to say it's great to hear a post of mine refered to as 'short'
*NM*
07/07/2012 12:26:45 AM
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