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Single Idea 21169

[filed under theme 27. Natural Reality / B. Modern Physics / 4. Standard Model / f. Neutrinos ]

Full Idea

Neutrinos are the only particles that seem just to spin anticlockwise.

Gist of Idea

Only neutrinos spin anticlockwise

Source

New Scientist writers (Why the Universe Exists [2017], 06)

Book Ref

New Scientist writers: 'Why the Universe Exists' [John Murray 2017], p.109

A Reaction

See 21166. Anti-neutrino spin is the opposite way. Which way up do you hold the neutrino when pronouncing that it is 'anticlockwise?

Related Idea

Idea 21166 Standard antineutrinos have opposite spin and opposite lepton number [New Sci.]

The 3 ideas with the same theme [light unreactive particles pervading the universe]:

21141 Neutrinos were proposed as the missing energy in neutron beta decay [New Sci.]
21169 Only neutrinos spin anticlockwise [New Sci.]
21192 Neutrinos only interact with the weak force, but decays produce them in huge numbers [Hesketh]