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[-] stebo02@lemmy.dbzer0.com 5 points 1 year ago

are you saying we're making dark matter here on earth

[-] zksmk@sopuli.xyz 11 points 1 year ago

That's a good question, but no. It was just a bit of word play.

Antineutrinos are not WIMPs. WIMPs are weakly interacting massive particles. Antineutrinos are anything but massive, they're almost massless, so massless that they were, for the longest time, thought to be massless. They can be a product of dark matter, as speculated, but they aren't it tho.

[-] stebo02@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 points 1 year ago

Yeah I thought so. I guess you could call them WILPs instead (Weakly Interacting Light Particles).

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