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Buckeye_Democrat

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3. That's still a wide range, but it's interesting!

Reply to Judi Lynn (Original post)

Sat Feb 6, 2021, 03:29 AM

Feb 2021

I initially misread 10^7 as 10^-7 somehow, and was amazed that the mass was somehow estimated to be many orders of magnitude smaller than a neutrino! Nope!

The larger estimate isn't much more massive than an electron, though!

Edit: Seems to be estimated in the range of various "virtual particles" to me.

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That's still a wide range, but it's interesting! Buckeye_Democrat Feb 2021 #3