What's The Probability You Have Seen A Neutrino?

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  • Can you see neutrinos with your eyes? Strangely enough, the answer seems to be yes. Check out the sponsor of this video Brilliant: brilliant.org/DOS/
    Neutrinos are the least well understood fundamental particle, and the fact that they don’t interact very much doesn’t help us study them. 300 trillion go through your body every second which is why some people call them ‘ghost particles’. But very occasionally they do hit us, and I wondered what would happen if one of them happened to hit us in our eye. Could we see it? So I figured it out with the same physics behind neutrino detectors, and the answer seems to be yes! Although you need a lot of eyes.
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    [1] Mean free path of neutrinos in water (1.7*10^17m)
    hyperphysics.phy-astr.gsu.edu/...
    [2] Measured neutrino flux from Super-Kamiokande (2.41*10^6 per cm^2 per second for neutrinos in water)
    arxiv.org/abs/hep-ex/9805021
    [3] Cherenkov radiation peaks around 420nm (visible)
    www.sciencedirect.com/topics/....
    [4] Human eyes are sensitive to 5-7 photons, down to just 1
    www.nature.com/articles/ncomm...
    [5] Super Kamiokande paper
    arxiv.org/abs/1606.07538
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  • @warmweathr
    @warmweathr 2 года назад +177

    Optometric tech here. Blue flashes of light can also be caused by post vitreous detachment. An interesting phenomena wherein the vitreous (jelly) of your eye starts to liquify and separate away from the retina. As it detaches, your body perceives this stimulation as light. It’s also the reason you may see floaters in your vision sometimes as well.
    But like the video said, it always could be a retinal detachment. If your symptoms are ever worrying see a doctor.

    • @ironmaz1
      @ironmaz1 2 года назад +6

      wait so floaters are bits of the vitreous?

    • @rabbitskywalk3r
      @rabbitskywalk3r 2 года назад +2

      Interesting coincidence...

    • @VeiledPrincess1
      @VeiledPrincess1 2 года назад

      So basically if it’s ever more than one brief flash go see ur eye dr 😟 👀

    • @dmdrosselmeyer
      @dmdrosselmeyer Год назад +2

      @@ironmaz1 maddening that they never responded to your question lol

    • @leesweets4110
      @leesweets4110 11 месяцев назад +1

      Nobody likes it when their jelly starts to melt.

  • @jmcsquared18
    @jmcsquared18 2 года назад +65

    Minor correction at 1:29: the weak nuclear force is not called weak due to its short range. The strong nuclear force also has incredibly short range (it's confined to the nucleus and inside of nucleons). The weak nuclear force is called weak because its field interaction strength is magnitudes smaller than the strong interaction's field strength, which is powerful enough to overcome the electromagnetic repulsion between protons (also stronger than the weak force) and bind them together to form nuclei.

    • @nucle4rpenguins534
      @nucle4rpenguins534 2 года назад

      I was going to comment something similar that it had to do with the “strength” of the force as well rather than it’s ‘range’ (so to speak) where it’s a relevant quantity in a system.

    • @mrsamot4677
      @mrsamot4677 Год назад

      Bro used to develop quantum computers. I guarantee he knows how particles interact better than either of us and is just dumbing down the it down by magnitudes so it can be a digestible RUclips video. It was a necessary oversimplification not to be taken literally.
      Just like how you shouldn’t actually think that there’s a constant stream of little tiny neutrino pellets traveling though you. That’s not how wave functions work. Just a simplification on how to visualize and understand it.

    • @jmcsquared18
      @jmcsquared18 Год назад +6

      @@mrsamot4677 Saying that the weak force is called weak due to its short range is not dumbing it down orders of magnitudes. It's just inaccurate.
      Also how do you know what I know, or what the person who runs this channel knows? Have you ever met me, or him? Your comment comes off as quite presumptuous.

    • @leesweets4110
      @leesweets4110 11 месяцев назад

      Here's a question... why do stronger forces have shorter ranges and weaker forces have longer ranges?

    • @jmcsquared18
      @jmcsquared18 11 месяцев назад +1

      @@leesweets4110 the strength and range can actually vary independently.
      For instance, the electromagnetic force is much stronger than the weak nuclear force, but much weaker than the strong nuclear force; yet it has an unlimited range, compared to the very small ranges of the two nuclear forces. Yet still, gravity is weaker than all other forces while also having an unlimited range.

  • @philophos
    @philophos 2 года назад +89

    I haven't been keeping an eye (heh) out for faint blue flashes, so I have no idea. I'll think about it forever now, but sadly I'm not often in very very dark places. And even if I were and it did happen, I'm pessimistic about my brain parsing it as noteworthy. Unless it's a revelatory flash, I'll probably automatically dismiss it like I dismiss all the other curious photon-retina interactions that happen throughout the course of life.
    Still, I love the fact that you've found the most legitimate way to ask, "Have you seen a ghost?"

    • @jacksonayres6326
      @jacksonayres6326 2 года назад +1

      Neutrinos interact only rarely with atomic matter, so if you *do* experience such a flash, it's almost certainly some other cosmic ray that caused it. Even with very generous estimates, a neutrino detector the size of our eyes would only detect a neutrino event every couple billion years, on average.

    • @philophos
      @philophos 2 года назад +2

      @@jacksonayres6326 I can't tell if you're just offering me your general take, or whether you think I've said something that I haven't. It sounds like your qualm is maybe with the maths/claims in the video. I was just saying I would very likely dismiss a faint blue flash of neutrino origin, in the rare or ultra-rare event that it did happen. My admittedly less interesting comment is consistent with everything you've said here, and also everything in the video.

  • @1959Berre
    @1959Berre 2 года назад +75

    Very rarely, maybe just 2 or 3 times in my 62 year life, I have experienced a small bright flash. It happened to me in a complete dark environment, at night, when my eyes were totally adapted to the darkness. I don't suffer from any eye related health issue. I guess neutrinos are not the most probable cause of flashes inside the eye. Lots of high energy particles, cosmic rays are bombarding the earth constantly. Exceptionally, gamma rays may find their way to the earth's surface and strike the retina of a human eye.

    • @jacksonayres6326
      @jacksonayres6326 2 года назад +4

      These kinds of flashes are well known to afflict astronauts as well, due to their higher exposure to cosmic rays outside of the Earth's magnetic field. Since neutrino interactions are so rare and the volume of our eyes are so small, we could only expect our eyes to actually detect a neutrino every couple billion years on average, even with very generous estimates for the neutrino detection capabilities of our eyes.
      For reference the IceCube detector is about 1 km^3 and expects to see about 75 neutrino detections a day. The combined volume of our eyes are about 13 cm^3, or about 10^-14 times the size of the IceCube detector, so even if our eyes were as sensitive as the IceCube detector, we'd only expect a single detection every 2.8 billion years or so.

    • @user-qc4kg1gz6b
      @user-qc4kg1gz6b 2 года назад

      @@jacksonayres6326 How do strings turn into membranes in M-theory?

    • @pinkplayspkmn5011
      @pinkplayspkmn5011 2 года назад +1

      Yes same here I though I was nuts I’m 31 this happened maybe 4 years ago

    • @nerfmods1234
      @nerfmods1234 Год назад

      wow you are lucky

    • @jennifergraceh
      @jennifergraceh Год назад

      This has happened to me a couple of times at night, in a totally dark room, as well! It freaked me out! 😂 whether or not it was one of these particles, I can’t say for sure, but it was weird.

  • @geodesic1974
    @geodesic1974 2 года назад +67

    Your brain creates a composite image from both eyes - generally favoring what it considers the most relevant data. But the neutrino hit would only occur in one eye!
    I'd wager that if you had one eye shut and the hit occurred in the closed eye then the brain would simply edit out the flash, favoring the more relevant (open) eye data.
    If the hit happened in the open eye (with the other eye still shut) then the hit would probably be seen with little to no compositing for the same reason.
    If both eyes were shut then the flash should be the most relevant data and would probably be composited in as if seen from both eyes.
    You guess is as good as mine as to what extent the flash might be edited out or composited in by our mercurial brains with both eyes open.

    • @YTEdy
      @YTEdy 2 года назад +7

      Astronauts saw single eye impacts from cosmic rays in space, but those were much more energetic. I don't think it's true that a single eye can't see something. Certainly if a laser pointer is directed at a single eye, a person would see it (please don't try this at home).
      It may be that the Neutrino flash is too dim to notice.

    • @evilkidm93b
      @evilkidm93b 2 года назад +1

      I think the amount of "raw data" humans see is highly individual. Take optical illusions as an example: some people see them others don't. I always see "visual snow", none of the optical illusions concerning color work on me, and I see the spherical distortion of the visual field. However, illusions with patterns and differences in brightness always get me, while others don't perceive them at all.

    • @hyperteleXii
      @hyperteleXii 2 года назад

      @@YTEdy How bright is 200 photons across a cm2?

    • @YTEdy
      @YTEdy 2 года назад +2

      @@hyperteleXii I'm not an expert in such things, but the eye can receive around a billion photons per second (estimates vary but they're all within an order of magnitude of that), then 200 is nothing, but the 200 photons would happen in an instant. If it was sustained it might be bright enough to see, but it's an instantaneous flash. It might be too quick to see. That would be my guess. The flash in a neutrino interaction in the eye would be there and gone so fast that we would probably not pick it up.
      But again, what the human eye might be able to see really isn't my strong suit.

  • @krischi_mk
    @krischi_mk 2 года назад +34

    *Edit: It is true!*
    1:04 sadly it's not true! Since the photon receptors in your eyes constantly produce false alarms, the brain will only see a signal if about 12 receptors in one area will go off simultaniously.
    *6:23 CLEARED IT UP

    • @krischi_mk
      @krischi_mk 2 года назад +5

      Source: ruclips.net/video/BbhrHRsK1S4/видео.html

    • @hardwarefromthegarbage3446
      @hardwarefromthegarbage3446 2 года назад +4

      So sad, but truly interesting info, brain has data stream correction. Really cool 😂

    • @puskajussi37
      @puskajussi37 2 года назад +8

      Paraphrasing, the video states that a neutrino impact would produce hundreds of photons.

    • @s33wagz
      @s33wagz 2 года назад +4

      @@krischi_mk 6:32 fortunately it is true. thank you for linking your source, it shed more light on the situation....

    • @hardwarefromthegarbage3446
      @hardwarefromthegarbage3446 2 года назад

      @@puskajussi37 But would enough of them collide with receptors? Just asking

  • @melm4251
    @melm4251 2 года назад +95

    top of my christmas wish list is a DoS branded vat of human eyeballs

  • @DukeBG
    @DukeBG 2 года назад +8

    people normally sleep for 8h per 24h, so there's basically a 1/3 chance that a person with a "neutrino flash" is asleep as it happens.

    • @jacksonayres6326
      @jacksonayres6326 2 года назад

      That doesn't even compare to the incredibly unlikely odds that a neutrino *would* interact with a person's eye. Even with the very generous assumption that our eyes are as effective at detecting neutrinos as purpose built detectors, on average it would take a given person about 3 billion years before a neutrino interaction was detected within their eye.

  • @PenandPaperScience
    @PenandPaperScience 2 года назад +5

    Again incredible video! Quick question: What software do you use for animations?
    Keep it up! 🙃

  • @knghtpaco5038
    @knghtpaco5038 2 года назад +8

    I had something like this happened to me, it was a few years ago. I was Caving in West Virginia and we where sitting with are lights off to experience the total darkness of being a few hundred feet below a mountain. I saw a faint flash of light in my left peripheral vision but i do not remember the color of the flash, at the time I believed it to be my mind playing trick on me as is know to happen in those kind of environments.

    • @botboy0
      @botboy0 2 года назад

      could be radioactive rocks giving off gamma radiation

  • @paramn4031
    @paramn4031 2 года назад +3

    I searched and landed on this after it happened me to few minutes ago, similar to your idea after I saw the flashes, I wondered whether it was particles like neutrino as I already knew neutrino constantly bombard us with little to no interaction. About the flash it wasn't as blue that you see during cherenkov radiation for me it was bit more greenish and a bit blue near the edges.

  • @agiovannaamorim
    @agiovannaamorim 2 года назад +5

    Once a year I see a small dot of purple light in one of my eyes (but it happens in both of them), in random positions and places. Now I know that statistically it's more likely to be an optical health problem. But thank you so much for that amazing content!! ❤️

  • @freedomofspeech2867
    @freedomofspeech2867 2 года назад +7

    After I learned about how eyes could detect particle collisions inside of them a couple of years back I've noticed a couple. One was blue but I'd imagine that's probably some other particle or something else entirely. It was a blue dot that was there for a fraction of a second, fading very fast.

    • @joelpainchaud4887
      @joelpainchaud4887 2 года назад

      Statistically speaking, if you’ve seen this more than once in a lifetime, seeing an eye doctor about it might be a good idea. Like the video and other comments said, there might be a medical reason behind seeing these flashes.

    • @freedomofspeech2867
      @freedomofspeech2867 2 года назад

      @@joelpainchaud4887 Maybe, or maybe it's just other particles?

    • @victoriay6246
      @victoriay6246 2 года назад

      Hahahaahha. Are you being funny? These are so small and mysterious it would like be winning the lottery to even see a flash. 1 in 89000 years. So low. So simplest answer is if you have seen more than one…. There is probably something medically wrong with you. No one is that special 😂😂😂😂😂

  • @ananya.a04
    @ananya.a04 2 года назад +3

    Amazing information! Thank you for sharing this with us!

  • @martasantaclara7694
    @martasantaclara7694 2 года назад +1

    I have to say - it is sooo interesting and easy to hear you explaining about quantum physics
    ! I also have to share the fact that I have had many weird experiences of little alterated perception moments in my life, which I was able to understand and expand through meditation, but which I could only find meaning and scientific evidence for them when I dove into quantum physics. suddenly all the layers of reality and filters of perception we use to understand life in Traditional Chinese Medicine are deeply entangled and operate in the Quantum world. specially meditation.
    Funny fact, the "rain of neutrinos" coming from the sun, passing through us and all visible reality, I've seen it with eyes closed, and we use it to visualize a rain of energy cleansing our body in qi gong meditation.
    uau ahah sorry (long text) I got super excited with your work!! :)
    Thank you for sharing!
    Marta

  • @invisible_maxim7354
    @invisible_maxim7354 Год назад +1

    i swear i have seen once like 3 months ago. You can imagine a black monitor infront of you and only 1 pixel turns on for 1 sec and flashes blue and a bit red. I was kinda confused but now i know what that was.

  • @charlotteharperlurae9009
    @charlotteharperlurae9009 Год назад +2

    I’m freaking out ! 😮I’ve been helping my siblings, getting inspired to learn.
    This happened to me a couple days ago coincidentally we were supposed to watch this video but I had an accident. So I’m watching now with them! ❤😅 I’ll get my eye checked out if it keeps happening!

  • @redshift40
    @redshift40 2 года назад

    You can also make, or search RUclips for a cloud chamber. These will not show neutrinos, but will make visible many different kinds of subatomic particle paths in real time. Very interesting to watch.

  • @lord_fulgi
    @lord_fulgi 11 месяцев назад

    I was talking with my gf 25 minutes ago and i saw that light spot-blur in my left eye. I didnt expect that at all, it was like dark blue and with a pear form (with what would be "the top" inclined 120° to the left). I dont think it has to be a neutrino but could be anyways a cosmic ray or something (theres a video of veritasium about it isnt it?), a random outer space particle. I have come to this video very fast because i remembered i saw it a year and a half ago (the video) and i dont want to forget the exact image i have now i my memory.

  • @kevinmccarthy8746
    @kevinmccarthy8746 2 года назад +1

    Yes I do agree about the flashes when lying in the sun and if I squeeze my eye lids down tight I think or thought, I would see this manifestation but it might be from other aberrations in me more likely, and not the Neutrino. Love your show and I am going to frame your beautiful posters on my bed room / computer station, walls.

  • @ironmaz1
    @ironmaz1 2 года назад +4

    I have perceived a lightning-like flash in my vision, 4-5 years ago when I closed my eyes to listen to a piano piece. I thought it was because classical music, a newly discovered source of joy for me, is so good it can elicit synesthesia. However, it never happened again. Also, I distinctly recall it being white, not blue!

    • @waytoohypernova
      @waytoohypernova 2 года назад

      I swear i literally had this happen to me last night
      The coincidence is spooky

    • @autotellic3378
      @autotellic3378 2 года назад

      This is what happens on psychedelics but more stronger. Interesting. Has to do with Brain parts connecting to each other that normally dont or wouldn't. You prob had the piano piece as a trigger source and your Brain connected something that it wouldn't otherwise.

  • @neuralink7018
    @neuralink7018 2 года назад +1

    Requesting the map of Science, but like a long, 1 hr + version for 1 million sub special :D

  • @wdm_frwrd
    @wdm_frwrd 2 года назад +1

    Back in my school days, I had a theory that these strange flashes in the dark while I was lying in bed could be flashes from neutrinos passing through my eyes. And now, after many many years, some dude from RUclips made a video that this is possible! Haha, incredible!

  • @coastsidescience
    @coastsidescience 2 года назад +2

    1:01 ... I'll have to find it but I'm pretty sure I heard an astronaut discussing this possibility / experience. I do believe, however, he was referencing the greater concentration of subatomic particles that people are exposed to while in the exosphere ... but he did mention neutrinos ... Love the video! Thanks!!! - Scott Forbes - Middle school science teacher.

    • @jacksonayres6326
      @jacksonayres6326 2 года назад

      Astronauts are well known to suffer from flashes in their eyes, due to the increased cosmic radiation outside of the Earth's atmosphere. However, neutrinos interact only rarely with atomic matter and as a consequence it would take the combined volume of a person's eyes about 2.8 billion years on average to detect one, with the generous assumption that our eyes are as effective at detecting neutrinos as purpose built detectors.

  • @DakotaFortnerECAA
    @DakotaFortnerECAA 2 года назад +2

    I feel like I've seen odd flashes of white or blue light with my eyes closed at night. very rare, like once or twice every few years, I just remember experiencing a light that seemed to flash and made me think a light turned on in my room. only to open my eyes to darkness

    • @anonamemous6865
      @anonamemous6865 2 года назад

      Mhmmmm I'm not sure if i experienced this mhmmm

  • @fazilnajeeb
    @fazilnajeeb 2 года назад +1

    FUN FACT: Since it is neutrinos, if this we can see these flashes even with eyes closed
    NB: So don't worry about keeping your eyes open during the whole night.
    PS: By closing the eyes prolly your visual cortex may not work as when u are awake.

  • @ivoryas1696
    @ivoryas1696 2 года назад

    A mix of _both_ titles? That works!

  • @PierreH1968
    @PierreH1968 2 года назад +2

    Excuse my question that might seem silly to you.
    But I heard you say that light travels slower in liquid. My understanding was that the speed of light was a constant (i.e the C in : e = m x C^2). Does it mean that C is the speed of photons in vacuum? and when you mean light in water you mean photons?

  • @markzambelli
    @markzambelli 2 года назад

    6:00 "And that's why *_eye_* love physics!"...🤣

  • @daniellassander
    @daniellassander 2 года назад +1

    The worst part about filling up two super kamiokande with eyes is that no one of us would have eyes to see the spectacle with.

  • @evilkidm93b
    @evilkidm93b 2 года назад +2

    I did see flashes of light a couple of times, all during the night and my father told me he has too. They were all very defocused, encompassing almost the whole field of view and on one eye. However, they always seemed white to me, maybe because they were faint?

    • @evilkidm93b
      @evilkidm93b 2 года назад

      @@AustinThomasPhD Absolutely! I've heard about the background radiation effect a few years back. But I'm thrilled to learn now that even neutrinos could in theory cause such flashes. This is new to me! What a magical world we live in. I'd be excited to hear of more witness accounts.

  • @keepsonticking
    @keepsonticking 2 года назад

    ive had a random blue flash of light appear in my left eye one time while i was trying to sleep one night last year, havent seen anything similar to that since

  • @antlerking69
    @antlerking69 2 года назад

    In the late 70's I would fall asleep waiting for this to happen...

  • @acouplerandomblurbs
    @acouplerandomblurbs 2 года назад

    i had no idea you also did kids books! that rules. they look awesome

  • @jacksonayres6326
    @jacksonayres6326 2 года назад

    Many cosmic rays would cause these kinds of flashes, a phenomenon that is well known to inflict astronauts. Considering the interaction cross section of any other kind of cosmic ray versus neutrinos, and the small volume of the eye, it's drastically more likely that any flash is a different kind of cosmic ray than it is that it's a neutrino. Any given flash could also simply be a visual disturbance with some other cause, which are common as well.
    Even assuming that our eyes are as effective at detecting neutrinos as the IceCube (at 1 km^3) observatory on a per-volume basis, and using generous estimates of IceCube's full capacity (75 detections per day) the rate of a neutrino detection occurring within the volume of both of our eyes (a combined ~13 cm^3 or 1.3e-14 km^3) would be about 3.56 * 10^-10 detections per year, so with the standard neutrino flux passing through Earth, we can expect about one neutrino detection per person every 2.8 billion years, or about 3-4 detections per year among the entire human population of Earth, as a rough estimate.

  • @bf314159
    @bf314159 2 года назад

    Saw a bright white flash in my right eye only a couple nights ago that was bright enough to wake me up for a second. No idea what that was tbh cuz it hasn't happened since.

  • @sethapex9670
    @sethapex9670 2 года назад +1

    What would happen if there were a nutrino collision in your brain? You wouldn't detect light from it but would it effect your thoughts at all?

  • @WHYNKO
    @WHYNKO 2 года назад

    You goda be kidding me, this morning, when I woke up, just before I opened my eyes, I saw a bluish wiggly spark in my eye, and I remembered how astronauts see such flashes in space due to cosmic rays, but I thought my case was different coz I didn't think cosmic rays could penetrate the atmosphere so much... And now you upload a video to answer my question which I only thought about 👏👏👏👏

  • @bulbakip6380
    @bulbakip6380 4 месяца назад

    I've seen like 3 or 4 in my lifetime. My eyeball flashed for no reason. Could be other nervous system phenomena or whatever, but this is what I think it is having learning about them about a decade ago! Love science!

  • @crimemastergogo5283
    @crimemastergogo5283 2 года назад

    I see a flashes of light (not blue but somewhat silverish) sometimes when I exert my body too much in an exercise.
    But they go away as my heart rate stabilises. Maybe its because of a head rush or maybe some other reason.
    Good video though.

  • @danielwarner9651
    @danielwarner9651 5 месяцев назад

    I for sure has have seen a flash like this. It's a tiniest little pinprick and it only lasts a second or so. I have just had an ophthalmology visit where they dilated my eyes so I know it's not a detached retina. Pretty cool

  • @TruckingScotto
    @TruckingScotto 22 дня назад

    I absolutely have seen a flash as you have described. I have always wondered what it was, but now I'm wondering if it was from a neutrino collision.

  • @parnikapawar6114
    @parnikapawar6114 2 года назад

    I request you please tell me the software you use for Editing and animation 🙏 pls tell sir i am a big fan

  • @LostLightAstrophotography7
    @LostLightAstrophotography7 3 месяца назад

    Only once ever have I see a blueish whitish flash which could possibly being hit by one.
    Swear on my moms life but about ten years ago I was sitting looking out my window and I am just seeing how dark it is out, just looking around and then all of a sudden this great flash happened, it started a point and expandes and filled up my whole POV. It was whitish in the center but as it went out it got bluer. But it happened so fast, it was short but really bright but it didnt leave a "burn in" like when you look at the sun.
    I still think about that event and maybe this has brought some form of closure on what that was.

  • @killerbee.13
    @killerbee.13 2 года назад +1

    Unfortunately, even if I were to ever see this, I get frequent migraines which cause visual disturbances that *also* take the form of blue flashes in dark rooms, so I wouldn't notice it.

  • @neuroatypical6984
    @neuroatypical6984 Год назад

    I have seen a few faint flash of white light at night if I remember correctly I see somewhere between 1-3 a year and I believe I spend an average of 1.3 hours awake in the dark per day; it's hard for me to fall asleep; I believe it could be white if faint enough because rods are significantly more sensitive than cones and they only see white

  • @ramakrishnanpanchapakesan299
    @ramakrishnanpanchapakesan299 2 года назад

    also the cerenkov radiation would have to be in the visble spectrum of light, for eye to even be able to see that sub-femto second flash

  • @ciCCapROSTi
    @ciCCapROSTi 2 года назад

    Hmm. Relativity. What happens when the frame of reference is traveling faster than the speed of light (in liquid)? From that reference frame, what is the photon's speed (the vector, not the scalar)? How is the Cherenkov radiation from that frame?

  • @hansthompson
    @hansthompson 2 года назад

    There's a cropping issue at 1:50

  • @VarangianGuard200
    @VarangianGuard200 Год назад +1

    I don't see light flashes but actual short electrical currents that have a short duration beginning to end.
    In certain circumstances I can make TV reception fail.
    I also have the uncontrolled ability to give tiny electric shocks haha.

  • @radiradev3013
    @radiradev3013 2 года назад +1

    2:15 This is not true, as quarks also oscillate between flavors. This oscillation is described by the Cabibbo-Kobayashi-Maskawa matrix. Quark mixing angles however, are not as strong as the ones describing neutrino oscillations.

  • @flerken1822
    @flerken1822 2 года назад +5

    Yay, neutrinos!

  • @ShamelessDuck
    @ShamelessDuck 2 года назад

    I love the expression "professor of those things"

  • @autotellic3378
    @autotellic3378 2 года назад

    Could it be that on psychedelics you spot them easier cause of Brain parts connecting that normally don't.

  • @gowrissshanker9109
    @gowrissshanker9109 2 года назад

    Respected sir🌟, what happens when we pass high energy photon/em wave/light(enough energy to knock out electrons from a metal) through a double slit and make the interference pattern to fall on a metal...will the photon knock out electrons.... Will light exhibit both particle and wave characteristics at same time??
    Thank you sir

  • @MarxLynx
    @MarxLynx 2 года назад

    You should do a "Map of Engineering."

  • @solomonkoontz9089
    @solomonkoontz9089 Год назад

    I was going to sleep one time and right after I closed my eyes and started rubbing it cause it was itchy I saw a blue zig-zag patterned flash that happened so fast I thought it was just in my head or something and my brain was playing tricks on me. I forgot about it until I was researching the difference between a neutrino and cosmic rays and stumbled on this video. Idk which of the 2 it was but I'm almost certain it was one of the 2

  • @anyssaguerra942
    @anyssaguerra942 Год назад

    Ok, I came here looking for answers… now I just have more questions and idk what to do… I’ve been experiencing seeing moving particle more than 3 times a day. It happens so often I usually just stare and tend to lose myself in watching this happen before my eyes… idk if stress or anything like that increase this but I’ve never experienced anything like this and now it’s as if I’m waking up completely and seeing the world move and come alive.

  • @Simon_Jakle__almost_real_name
    @Simon_Jakle__almost_real_name 7 месяцев назад

    I wonder if neutrino interact when earth(quake) lights occurs. Or perhaps in comets when they are close to the sun?
    Some german guy even works on neutrino-voltaic like a solar panel that would harvest or "generate" energy in any environment. There's some sites about this. But that technology would make us "too independent".

  • @eduardofilho1405
    @eduardofilho1405 2 года назад +1

    Could you pls make a philosophy map?

  • @vinskeeter
    @vinskeeter 2 года назад +1

    I have noticed flashes of light in my eyes. They were barely perceptible. I think they were due to some other phenomenon, though. It happened about 20 years ago one night and it happened several times within a few minutes in a dark room at night as I laid in bed. My wife did not see them.

  • @lupita3689
    @lupita3689 2 года назад +1

    You mentioned that the person who sees it also has to be in a dark room, so really we’re talking about when the person is staring into a dark room, or when shutting their eyes trying to sleep, that does not account to much time on a daily basis, i wonder if you accounted for that when you say we need 90,000 people on average. Also chances are who’s gonna really remember and notice it anyways…

  • @gustavocortico1681
    @gustavocortico1681 2 года назад +1

    Well the retina is on the back of the eye, so unless the radiation points everywhere, that needs to be accounted for, right?

    • @jacksonayres6326
      @jacksonayres6326 2 года назад

      The majority of cosmic rays will penetrate right through your body with no issue, so the direction it's traveling typically does not matter.

  • @lucidmoses
    @lucidmoses 2 года назад

    I don't know how your going to sort out the false positives but it will be interesting to see.

  • @craighane2015
    @craighane2015 2 года назад +1

    A few Q's. If the sun creates the neutrinos and they don't react with ordinary matter, where do they go? Is the Universe just getting more and more neutrinos as the stars emit them? Is their total mass increasing all the time while the stars mass is decreasing? How are they created by a star? Will in time the Universe consist just of neutrinos? What does it imply about our current understanding of physics that we can't answer the fundamental questions about neutrinos he stated at the beginning of this video? Look forward to your answers.

    • @juliavixen176
      @juliavixen176 2 года назад

      Yeah, the universe is just filling up with neutrinos. Stars are decreasing in mass (also from the light they emit, and the occasional flares of ionized hydrogen). In an unfathomly long period of time the universe will be mostly photons, neutrinos, cold lumps of iron, and the occasional black hole. Most of the neutrinos we see right now are emitted when a neutron turns into a proton. And neutrinos are absorbed in neutron stars (and some other nuclear processes) when a proton turns into a neutron. Basically, the way we detect neutrinos in giant underground tanks of liquid, is to watch for radioactive decay where a proton and electron recombine with a neutrino to form a neutron.

  • @justanotherchannelxo
    @justanotherchannelxo Год назад

    I've definitely seen random tiny flashes of blue light and been really confused.

  • @leesweets4110
    @leesweets4110 11 месяцев назад

    Only see it in the dark? When are we ever in the pitch black except while sleeping? Sounds to me like no one would ever see this, ever.

  • @romense777
    @romense777 2 года назад +1

    What if you factor in all the other stars in the universe. Does this increase the odds of seeing a neutrino ?

  • @ArtVideos-og9dv
    @ArtVideos-og9dv 2 года назад

    I have a visual-migraine, which causes my perceived vision to spack-out and display glowing patches of distorted light for 20 minutes once every month on average.

  • @yosefmacgruber1920
    @yosefmacgruber1920 5 месяцев назад

    There are probably too many possible explanations, for a neutrino to be all that likely. What about a neuron misfiring, or some other sort of cosmic ray or particle? We see on camera sensors sometimes, when the light level goes too low, they start showing visual noise. I doubt that the areas of the brain and eyes involved, are really quiet enough to see with much reliability a neutrino. Perhaps, but aren't there so many other things that it could be, that are more likely?
    When we close our eyes and tune in, how many people see strange patterns of color, that we likely figure out are just "noise" and we learned to ignore from a very young age? When things are too quiet, you can hear the freeway or cars that are many blocks away. The retina has many imperfections, yet we can't seem to see them, because the brain learns to filter them out.
    I have heard somewhere that they have done experiments with "upside down" glasses, and after I think mere weeks, people adapt their eyesight, and removal of the glasses causes normal vision to appear upside down.

  • @op_tara
    @op_tara 2 года назад +1

    sometimes i see some particles interacting each other when i look in the sky

  • @The_Confusing_Humanbeing
    @The_Confusing_Humanbeing 2 года назад

    Hey bro can u make a mind map of electromagnetism pls

  • @MarcusAgrippa390
    @MarcusAgrippa390 2 года назад

    I have seen a blue flash in my eyes before.
    And I hope that I never get tasered again...
    That crap hurts like hell.

  • @BRORIGIN
    @BRORIGIN 2 года назад

    So, about one of your subscribers each year experiences this phenomena.

  • @floylde
    @floylde Год назад +1

    I just saw a small line of light of some sort. Very small and very thin and white. It lasted longer than me closing and opening my eyes. But just once. By the time i closed my eyes a second time it was gone. Thats why i searched for this video. Wasnt a flash it was a small line that lasted about 1 second. Anybody else had this happened?

    • @floylde
      @floylde Год назад

      I hope i wont mutate badly

  • @bengoody595
    @bengoody595 2 года назад

    Well now that i am aware of this, i shall be keeping an "eye" out for it and let you know if it happens to me ;)

  • @luckylinda7777
    @luckylinda7777 Год назад

    I think I’ve seen a neutrino(s). I didn’t even know what they were or that they even existed…..then when I was researching this weird thing I saw…I came across neutrino info.

  • @johnreid5814
    @johnreid5814 10 месяцев назад

    I saw a giant blue flash in the sky at night when i was a little kid. The whole sky lit up like a quarter the brightness of daytime. Really freaked me out. I have since head of a green flash in the sky somewhere around sunset so ill just leave it to that.

  • @MojoRevelation
    @MojoRevelation 2 года назад

    I've seen one of those flashes!

  • @redacted_0101
    @redacted_0101 4 месяца назад

    i was sitting a sheetz looking out the window when i see a bright blue flash of light it was around 7:30 in the morning, the sun was directly in the direction i was sitting, my right eye just lit up with blue?? weird

  • @renedekker9806
    @renedekker9806 2 года назад

    200 photons per cm corresponds to only 0.04 photons per rod cell in your retina. That is is much less than the 10 photons per rod cell needed to detect light.

  • @K2_Chris
    @K2_Chris 2 года назад

    You may wanna ask astronauts, which I believe they see white light when things happen like this. Not sure what particle, but I believe it was a hush thing for awhile. They don't want their people thinking they are crazy.

  • @steve-us2hg
    @steve-us2hg 2 года назад

    I wouldn't state that there are a many as the amount of stars in the universe when we have no idea how big the universe really is

  • @nucle4rpenguins534
    @nucle4rpenguins534 2 года назад +1

    ~29k views, assuming these views are unique from different people; we’re a 1/3 of the way there before we get ~90k people watching this video and roughly 1 person out of that pool probably saw a neutrino collision!
    Realistically to get ~90k unique viewers we probably would need this video to be a bit more watched to filter out those rewatching it (~150k total views or so maybe would be enough)

  • @medicalknowledge2417
    @medicalknowledge2417 2 года назад

    Please upload more videoe 👍

  • @waytoohypernova
    @waytoohypernova 2 года назад

    I _literally_ saw a lightning-like flash in my eyes last night while procrastinating on homework.
    It left me mildly confused but i didnt think much of it until this video wtf
    It wasnt blue however, it was white and rather strong
    (Also no there was no storm and my bedroom light hasnt worked for weeks bc im too lazy to fix it)

    • @jacksonayres6326
      @jacksonayres6326 2 года назад

      It was likely of neurogenic origin (meaning it occurred due to an error in your nerves/brain) , not cosmic.

  • @jake-yl8dy
    @jake-yl8dy 10 месяцев назад

    Heard about this ages ago but were here rn cos I just saw one kinda shit myself I was in bed with my eyes shut and then there was this flash of blue and it was from a point

  • @anbut8465
    @anbut8465 2 года назад +1

    🔥

  • @blackmaggit2294
    @blackmaggit2294 2 года назад

    and thats why i lov physics

  • @Kabup2
    @Kabup2 2 года назад

    Let me see, a flash of blue light? Hmmmm... No, I don't think so, but I saw a lot of colorful stars after a bump in my head...

  • @Keallei
    @Keallei 2 года назад +6

    This happened to me while I was reading a book last month! I saw the slight flash “on the page” and it was so confusing.
    I even remember the page it was on. It was a special moment. Serendipitous that I watch a video with a possible explanation for that happenstance.
    It was a small flash that was the size of a printed word on the page.

  • @GMPranav
    @GMPranav 2 года назад +3

    I have definitely felt flashes in my eyes rarely but not quite sure if they are neutrinos, probably not. Probably some rando cosmic rays.

  • @owenosteocyte7455
    @owenosteocyte7455 2 года назад

    I understand vision very well. A neutrino is extremely weak and would not permit the conversion of Rhodopsin into opsin and release transducin. In addition, a photon even, cannot cause a blue flash of light alone, and without the synchrony of other cones, then it would be considered noise and not even be detected. All things considered you detect an incredible amount of light, and compared to that, a neutrino is weak

  • @hiiamjustacoolrandomuser168
    @hiiamjustacoolrandomuser168 2 года назад

    Domian, have a question that unlrealted to this. if circle is infinity then a dot is a infinity. If I think about it lines are made of dots stretched. So shape are made of line so aren't they infinity. Sorry my English grammar is not great and this is question not a fact I am a teen no mathtician. Thank you

    • @cvayta
      @cvayta 2 года назад

      You can look up the Coastline Paradox

    • @RezonSV
      @RezonSV 2 года назад

      Yes a dot's circumference is also infinite, that is if you start at one point you can keep going, but their radius is not infinite, a line is a collection of points and so is any other shape. Hope that answered your question, you can always reply if you have queries regarding this!

    • @RezonSV
      @RezonSV 2 года назад

      @@hiiamjustacoolrandomuser168 Any closed shape in infinite and finite, infinite because you can continue walking on the circumference of the shape and finite because if you cut a slit on the circumference and lay the shape in a flat line segment, that segment would be finite.

  • @Maverick_Mad_Moiselle
    @Maverick_Mad_Moiselle Месяц назад

    I've experienced flashes of light, but probably more than it would be likely to be neutrinos. I'm not Neutrino Georg. However, I know it can be caused by health issues if it's common.
    But flashes are also likelier to happen in people who experience visual snow like me.

  • @lordhubble4819
    @lordhubble4819 2 года назад

    I think you made a mistake in your calculation (all the numbers are correct but) in that area of an eye the unit is [m] but it should be [m^2]
    not much but i noticed it so maybe you can correct it for the poster

  • @YTEdy
    @YTEdy 2 года назад

    How many photons does a neutrino flash create? It may be too few to be seen by our senses.

  • @debanjandas723
    @debanjandas723 2 года назад

    Big fan bro love from india

  • @GustavoLadeira42
    @GustavoLadeira42 2 года назад

    I swear, I think I saw one last night! I was getting in bed and I saw a flash of light in my [closed] left eye. I'm not sure if I pressed it the wrong way against the pillow, causing some sort of stimulation, or if I actually saw a neutrino.

  • @sayiedahmed6746
    @sayiedahmed6746 Год назад

    What will happen I anyone see it