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Science & Technology Q&A for Kids (and others) [August 5, 2022]

The Stephen Wolfram Podcast

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The Importance of Neutrinos in Astronomy

Neutrinos are sufficiently low mass that they more or less travel at the speed of light. Eventually, we'll presumably be able to detect neutrino bursts from violent events like supernovas. They have an absolutely infinitesimally tiny effect on sort of world affairs. There's a question here from Marvias, didn't neutrinos cause hardware failure in airplanes? No, absolutely not.

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