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Are neutrinos hiding the dark matter?

Daniel and Kelly’s Extraordinary Universe

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A Dark Matter Bump or a Nutrino?

Dark matter is not the only elusive and invisible particle or stuff in the universe. There are also nutrinos, which we know are nvisible and don't interact with the electromagnetic force. They can penetrate through the entire earth without thinking twice. And so it's no big deal for them that we shield these tanks of zenon with layers and laers and layers of rock. But there is one kind of cosmic raya particle from space,. which can get through all that rock and can bump zenon, and can mimic this dark matter signal. Yes. It would look a lot like what would happen if dark matter bumped into zenon. The nucleus of the atom also feels

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