• stebo
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    510 months ago

    are you saying we’re making dark matter here on earth

    • @zksmkOPM
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      1110 months ago

      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.

      • stebo
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        110 months ago

        Yeah I thought so. I guess you could call them WILPs instead (Weakly Interacting Light Particles).