Why neutrinos don't existmharratsc wrote:Neutrons are supposed to be a proton and an electron smashed together, held in the nucleus of an atom (they cannot exist on their own for very long before they separate back into a proton and electron.)
As for neutrinos, there seems to be some argument about what they are. Wallace Thornhill hypothesizes that they are subatomic structures of vanishingly small mass. When energy is imparted into them, they then become other atomic particles with which we are more familiar.
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The neutrino supposition is based on a nonexistent "need" to balance a situation that didn't need balancing! An earlier case of trying to fit relativity into physics. Ham-handed at that.
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