And an interesting, somewhat related, video from PBS Space Time exploring how supernovas act as particle accelerators (but don't quite explain particles like this one or the 'Oh My God' particle):
Neutrinos “interact with regular matter so rarely that it's estimated you'd need about a light-year of lead to completely block a bright source of them. Every one of us has tens of trillions of neutrinos passing through us every second, but fewer than five of them actually interact with the matter in our bodies in our entire lifetimes.”
They have 1/500,000 the mass of electrons. They interact only through the super short range weak force (and gravity). Nearly 5% of fission energy is expressed in neutrinos.
And, they may be their own antiparticles, meaning they can potentially annihilate each other.
>Every one of us has tens of trillions of neutrinos passing through us every second, but fewer than five of them actually interact with the matter in our bodies in our entire lifetimes.”
These rare interactions with matter are also a cause of concern in voting machines, right? Or at least it was a concern at one point. A random bit being flipped or something.
It is mostly a problem of DRAM memory cells, though theoretically with enough energy it could flip SRAM cells to or override the driver of a given wire. It is not specific to voting machines.
But the main source is from cosmic rays and local radiation sources in the ceramic packaging and/or decaying elements in the metal frame/leads/solder.
They have 1/500,000 the mass of electrons. They interact only through the super short range weak force (and gravity). Nearly 5% of fission energy is expressed in neutrinos.
And, they may be their own antiparticles, meaning they can potentially annihilate each other.
Wild that these things can carry so much energy!