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Originally posted by chr0naut
reply to post by MMPI2
A neutrino is a particle that interacts very weakly with normal baryonic matter. It can therefore pass through a lot of matter without doing anything much. It is similar in mass to an electron (ie: really small). It has no electrical charge and that's why they call it a neutrino, it is neutral electrically.
Only very rarely will a neutrino interact so they are very hard to detect.
The sun spits them out all the time and it has been estimated that tens of billions of them pass through the earth, without interacting, every second.
Originally posted by chr0naut
reply to post by soundmatrix2009
I don't see how neutrinos, even by the hundreds of billions, could affect DNA enough for us to notice?
Even if it did some damage (unlikely), it would take years for something so tiny to grow into a cancer or whatever and would only affect a single person. How could we know if the cancer or DNA change was from a neutrino when there are so many other toxins & dangerous radiation sources all round us.
Doesn't sound like fact to me, sorry.edit on 17/2/2011 by chr0naut because: (no reason given)