What is a neutrino? #shorts

Thanks to everyone that submitted questions about neutrinos and the science of the Deep Underground Neutrino Experiment for the DUNE collaboration to answer! First up: What is a neutrino? Stay tuned for more answers to your questions!
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[Tony-dprl]

The really unnerving thing about physics, is that it is almost guaranteed that the universe itself does not know what a Nutrino is. We just need it because we have no idea what the underlying rules are that would remove the distinctions we make between particles. The universe is not going "IF NUTRINO DO X" :)

[thebighadron]

Such a great explanation!!! MORE DR CALLUM WILKINSON PLEASE!!!

[pb]

come closer please. More from this guy, he’s great!

[chubrik]

If oscillation is explained through superposition, does this resolve the zero mass contradiction?

[allfunnydogsstories]

Yes, but what IS a neutrino? what is it made of? What is the molecular composition? Is it made out of strings is it made out of loops? What does it look like on a subatomic level ? Is it faster than light? How fast is it? Does it connect with other atoms? how much does it weigh? What happens if it finally connect or reacts with something? What would happen if there weren’t any neutrinos?

[renatoigmed]

how they know about this? I mean how they discover such a small thing?

[michaelzimmermann]

Neutrinos are also a key factor in supernovae events

[hevidu]

What does the dune experiment do different that super K, ice cube, etc dont?

[phybharathi]

How it tell us those things?...what kind of analysis reveal that results, can anyone tell about it plz..

[Dr.M.VincentCurley]

Did you hear? The Tau neutrino got caught soliciting a Top quark by a gluon thinking it was a lepton?

[AlwaysAwesome]

Thank you sir for speaking
and behaving like an adult.

#refreshing

[shannonperez]

But I wanna know is do our thoughts attached to the neutrino? and that is what alters things going on in our world

[erdem--]

If neutrino's are almost undetectable, having no mass, how they can have an influence over formation of galaxies.

[invisableobserver]

Neutrino sounds a name of a future ford electric car. :-)

[Petch]

Almost no mass.... But why do they have mass in the first place?

[thomeedee]

What is a brick ? Well, it's usually made of clay....

[ScottJPowers]

you're confidence in neutrinos seems odd considering you can't detect them directly. you'll even say they can go through a light year of solid lead before ever interacting with one of the atoms of said lead. But then your neutrino detectors are large amounts of super pure water deep underground that occasionally produce blips of light, which seems to be Cherenkov radiation, which is produced by an electron moving faster that light would in water. The electron was displaced and accelerated by high energy EM radiation, such as that produced by a nuclear reactor, so to think that this could be done hundreds or thousands of times a year by neutrinos sounds absurd. Neutrinos, like dark matter and dark energy, are just ideas assumed for the sake of explaining something that you just run with and eventually start acting like it's a real thing. it seems to me that these neutrinos could actually just be an even higher frequency of EM radiation than gamma waves. higher frequency EM radiation tends to pass further through more matter.