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- From: bweiner@ruhets.rutgers.edu (Benjamin Weiner)
- Newsgroups: sci.physics
- Subject: Re: Defining Photons
- Message-ID: <Jul.27.16.18.59.1992.7828@ruhets.rutgers.edu>
- Date: 27 Jul 92 20:18:59 GMT
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- Jim Carr writes:
- >And it also follows that large numbers of neutrinos would act more like
- >electrons than photons, despite the fact that they are massless.
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- Considerations of putative massive neutrinos as dark matter in
- galactic halos have to take seriously Pauli Exclusion Principle
- effects. Sounds insane, I know, but the phase space _is_ limited
- (in velocity too) and you need a _lot_ of neutrinos to make the halos
- heavy enough.
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- Ben Weiner
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