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What are sterile neutrinos?

Daniel and Kelly’s Extraordinary Universe

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A Neutrino Explains How Neutrinos Get Mass

The idea of a sterile neutrino would explain how neutrinos get mass and why they are so small. A special fourth kind of neutrino through some mathematical mixing, it turns out that it gets most of the mass. And because the C-Saw mechanism would like sits on one side very, very heavy, it makes the other particles very, very light.

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