SEKI
2015-12-11 17:32:26 UTC
Do neutrinos really have masses?
I would like to congratulate Prof. Kajita and Prof. McDonald on receiving the
Nobel Prize.
Though neutrino oscillations are experimentally-verified facts, I wonder if
neutrinos really have masses.
If neutrinos have masses, undetectable low-speed neutrinos are to be traveling
in the space. According to the theory of special relativity, low-speed
neutrinos are to oscillate vertiginously.
The way of describing behavior of a neutrino as a mixture of wave packets with
different masses is kind of weird. With this model, as masses of neutrinos
(if any) are so tiny, oscillation frequencies of low-speed neutrinos should be
so low as to contradict the above relativistic consequence.
Besides, it is also experimentally verified that detected neutrinos travel at
almost exactly the speed of light.
Then, I assume that neutrinos do not have masses, and that neutrino oscillations
are phenomena similar to rotation of the plane of circularly-polarized light.
Am I wrong?
SEKI
I would like to congratulate Prof. Kajita and Prof. McDonald on receiving the
Nobel Prize.
Though neutrino oscillations are experimentally-verified facts, I wonder if
neutrinos really have masses.
If neutrinos have masses, undetectable low-speed neutrinos are to be traveling
in the space. According to the theory of special relativity, low-speed
neutrinos are to oscillate vertiginously.
The way of describing behavior of a neutrino as a mixture of wave packets with
different masses is kind of weird. With this model, as masses of neutrinos
(if any) are so tiny, oscillation frequencies of low-speed neutrinos should be
so low as to contradict the above relativistic consequence.
Besides, it is also experimentally verified that detected neutrinos travel at
almost exactly the speed of light.
Then, I assume that neutrinos do not have masses, and that neutrino oscillations
are phenomena similar to rotation of the plane of circularly-polarized light.
Am I wrong?
SEKI