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longship

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1. Wait a minute! Neutrinos are regularly detected.

Reply to n2doc (Original post)

Sun Oct 1, 2017, 06:16 PM

Oct 2017

And they are notorious for not interacting with anything, except very rarely via the weak nuclear force.

An undetectable particle can be detected by missing momentum in an interaction. That's how neutrinos are found to be produced although they are not directly detected.

What about that?

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Wait a minute! Neutrinos are regularly detected. longship Oct 2017 #1

They're difficult to detect. Igel Oct 2017 #2

Well, that's how the neutrino was discovered. longship Oct 2017 #3