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Originally Posted by Nereid
Not yet (the neutrinos are created - and emitted - when the core collapses; the photons we first see are emitted some time later, when the 'bounce' reaches the star's surface (or the polar jet breaks through, in the case of a GRB).
But why must this test be the only valid one (of whether the neutrino has non-zero mass or not)? Is there some ordered scheme for classifying 'knowing things for sure', with 'know for absolute certainty' at one end, and 'are completely clueless about' at the other?
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I don't know much about neutrino. I am not sure if they have a nonzero rest mass just because my knowledge.
Some people say the photons have a non zero rest mass. Here I am sure the photon hasn't its rest mass because it is a wave. If a wave is at rest it disappears.
Neutrino isn't a wave, I think, so it may have a rest mass.
What happens if a neutrino meets an antineutrino ?
Do they annihilate like a particle-antiparticle ?
Do exist the virtual neutrinos-antineutrinos like virtual quarks-antiquarks ?