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And a nuance that is easily lost: the different neutrino eigenstates/flavors travel at different velocities, because they have different mass, so the probabilit
by wasting_time 3mo ago
And a nuance that is easily lost: the different neutrino eigenstates/flavors travel at different velocities, because they have different mass, so the probability of detecting one flavor depends on the distance travelled.
Essentially each neutrino travels in three different "waves", but is still one unit in a constant superposition between the three.
- tines 3mo agoSo neutrinos are changing mass and velocity constantly?
- wasting_time 3mo agoI'm no physicist, this is just how I understood this thread; but AIUI it's better to think of the neutrino being in all three eigenstates simultaneously, and if any of the three "bump into something" then it collapses to just the one flavor.