
What are sterile neutrinos?
Daniel and Kelly’s Extraordinary Universe
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The Neutrino Doesn't Feel Any Charge, Right?
The neutrino is the only fundamental matter particle that has no electric charge. Neutrinos are matter particles, which means they do actually have mass. They do feel gravity and it does take them sometimes to accelerate. There's some limit on the charge of the neutrino. Even a very small charge would upset all sorts of things because charge is conserved in the universe. We're pretty confident it has zero charge, but you can never know for sure.
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