SciShow: Why Do Neutrinos Have Mass? A Small Question with Huge Consequences

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Content of the Lesson: Neutrinos are weird. But all the big unsolved problems in physics are somehow connected to one unsolved mystery: Why do neutrinos have mass? Hosted by: Stefan Chin SciShow has a spinoff podcast! It's called SciShow Tangents. Check it out at http://www.scishowtangents.org ---------- Support SciShow by becoming a patron on Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/scishow ---------- Huge thanks go to the following Patreon supporters for helping us keep SciShow free for everyone forever: Kevin Bealer, Jacob, Katie Marie Magnone, D.A. Noe, Charles Southerland, Eric Jensen, Christopher R Boucher, Alex Hackman, Matt Curls, Adam Brainard, Jeffrey McKishen, Scott Satovsky Jr, James Knight, Sam Buck, Chris Peters, Kevin Carpentier, Patrick D. Ashmore, Piya Shedden, Sam Lutfi, Charles George, Christoph Schwanke, Greg ---------- Looking for SciShow elsewhere on the internet? Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/scishow Twitter: http://www.twitter.com/scishow Tumblr: http://scishow.tumblr.com Instagram: http://instagram.com/thescishow ---------- Sources: https://www.symmetrymagazine.org/article/how-heavy-is-a-neutrino https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/nova-experiment-neutrino-mass-mystery/ https://phys.org/news/2015-12-nobel-winning-discovery-neutrino-oscillations-neutrinos.html http://hitoshi.berkeley.edu/neutrino/PhysicsWorld.pdf https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-019-02786-z https://www.quantamagazine.org/how-the-neutrinos-tiny-mass-could-help-solve-big-mysteries-20191015/ https://www.sciencedirect.com/topics/physics-and-astronomy/neutrino-masses https://www.nobelprize.org/prizes/physics/2015/press-release/ https://physics.aps.org/articles/v6/111 https://www.symmetrymagazine.org/article/neutrinos-on-a-seesaw https://arxiv.org/abs/hep-ph/9911364 http://bionumbers.hms.harvard.edu/bionumber.aspx?s=y&id=101795&hlid=64639 https://news.fnal.gov/2012/09/neutrinos-majorana-or-dirac/ https://www.nature.com/articles/s41586-020-2177-0 https://physicstoday.scitation.org/do/10.1063/PT.6.1.20200423a/full/ http://www.hyper-kamiokande.org/en/neutrino.html https://www.nobelprize.org/uploads/2018/06/popular-physicsprize2015.pdf https://neutrinos.fnal.gov/mysteries/handedness/ https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0924809906800314 https://inspirehep.net/literature/1735843 https://arxiv.org/abs/0706.2132 https://www.quantamagazine.org/do-neutrinos-explain-matter-antimatter-asymmetry-20160728/ Image Sources: https://www.videoblocks.com/video/back-close-up-shot-of-woman-looking-into-distance-hiding-from-the-sun-with-a-hand-b75ext618k4z0ksp6 https://www.istockphoto.com/vector/bright-background-gm1144483883-307700998 https://www.istockphoto.com/vector/up-and-down-carousel-for-two-kids-on-white-backfit-gm1165445947-320690134 https://www.istockphoto.com/vector/a-clot-of-energy-symbol-is-a-substance-of-blue-color-circle-shapes-dynamic-particle-gm936279784-256103087


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