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Neutrino Decay Reconciles Two Worlds ⚡ экспресс

Original: "Neutrino decays as a natural explanation of the neutrino mass tension"
· Guillermo Franco Abellán
arXiv:2601.04312v2 · 2026-01-07 · CC BY 4.0 · ⏱ 1 min · Cosmology HEP Phenomenology HEP Theory
Neutrino decay into invisible particles explains the discrepancy between cosmological and laboratory data on mass.
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Neutrinos can decay into invisible particles, and this solves the main debate about their mass. Cosmologists thought neutrinos were very light, while physicists demanded a larger mass. Decay explains where the difference went: some of the mass simply vanished over time, like potatoes from a leaky sack.

🎯 There are almost as many neutrinos in the Universe as photons of the cosmic microwave background—about 330 per cubic centimeter.

Scientists
Alan GuthAndrei LindeGeorges LemaîtreJames PeeblesAdam RiessBrian Schmidt
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Standard Model expansion of the universe big bang
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Friedmann equationsHubble's lawNoether's theoremEinstein field equationsPlanck's lawspin–statistics theorem
Original: arXiv:2601.04312v2 · CC BY 4.0 · bridge42worlds