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Not a physicist, but here are a couple Wikipedia excerpts I found: From page “Conservation of mass”: “In general, mass is not conserved. The conservation of m
by falseprofit 3mo ago
Not a physicist, but here are a couple Wikipedia excerpts I found:
From page “Conservation of mass”:
“In general, mass is not conserved. The conservation of mass is a law that holds only in the classical limit.”
From page “Neutrino oscillation”:
“Neutrino oscillation arises from mixing between the flavor and mass eigenstates of neutrinos. That is, the three neutrino states that interact with the charged leptons in weak interactions are each a different superposition of the three (propagating) neutrino states of definite mass. Neutrinos are produced and detected in weak interactions as flavour eigenstates[a] but propagate as coherent superpositions of mass eigenstates.[23]”
- cobbzilla 3mo agoso it’s changing mass/energy with itself? and the whole thing says constant? I guess that makes sense.
- falseprofit 3mo agoMaybe it isn’t changing mass at all, and what’s changing is just the probability distribution resulting from a hypothetical flavor measurement. If we could measure the mass (collapse to mass eigenstate), I think I understand we would see no oscillation.