• edge [he/him]
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    2 years ago

    Only 1 in 4 of it ever happening to you? I thought it would more common than that.

    • Llituro [he/him, they/them]
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      2 years ago

      About yeah. The interaction rate of neutrinos is incredibly low for the garden variety the sun is constantly hitting you with. You can actually take a photo of the sun through the earth with neutrinos because of how little the interact. The superkamiokande experiment did it most recently I think. On average, an electron neutrino will go a light-year through lead before interacting.

      • edge [he/him]
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        2 years ago

        Oh so it’s still passing through you, just not hitting any of your matter? Somehow that makes both more sense and less.

        • Llituro [he/him, they/them]
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          2 years ago

          No don't misunderstand, there's a 1 in 4 chance it will hit your matter in your lifetime. There's millions of them constantly passing through you all the time.

          • edge [he/him]
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            2 years ago

            Yeah, the latter is what I was thinking initially, so it makes more since that they are passing through you like I thought. But at the same time being bombarded with millions of particles and none of them actually hitting your matter is pretty insane.