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When you travel at the speed of light, your mass becomes infinite. Why isn't a neutrino have greater mass?

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When you travel at the speed of light, your mass becomes infinite. Why isn't a neutrino have greater mass?

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  1. nothing can move with the speed of light as mass become infinty and it is not possilbe


  2. The mass listed for any of the family of subatomic particles is more correctly their *rest* mass. Like any other bit of matter, when subatomic particles travel at high velocities, i.e., not at rest,  their *relativistic* mass increases.

  3. It was thought for a long time that neutrinos had no mass and traveled at the speed of light. It was then discovered they changed "flavors", which would be impossible at light speed because time does not exist at the speed of light.

    That is, photons do not "age" on the journey from the Sun to Earth, or to anywhere else. The only way a neutrino could change is if it experienced time, and therefore it can not be traveling at light speed.

    There are three "flavors" of neutrinos: electron neutrino, muon neutrino and tau neutrino. They travel close to, but not at, the speed of light, and have very small relativistic masses, which can't be measured directly.

  4. Wasn't the theory the exact opposite? An object traveling at the speed of light has no mass?

  5. What is your definition of a neutrino?  Obviously your English is poor?

  6. to bad we cant move that fast even if we did our bodys would be crushed from all the g forces

  7. it takes too much energy

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