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Answer by SystematicDisintegration for Can the brain detect the passage of a...
You cannot "see" a flash if the eye receives no stimulus even though the brain is directly hit by a neutrino and it would be impossible to detect it because:1) There is no receptor of this sort in the...
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The cross-section for neutrino interactions is energy dependent.For solar neutrinos at $\sim 0.4$ MeV, which would likely dominate any neutrinos likely to interact with a brain (the cosmic background...
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If you are that fast in detecting light, you are seeing cosmic ray muons. They are charged and leave an ionizing track in anything they cross and Cerenkov light. in liquid, and the eye is mainly...
View ArticleAnswer by Jimmy360 for Can the brain detect the passage of a neutrino?
This definitely is not a neutrino. Neutrinos are hard to detect because they are light, quick, and have no charge, making them usually pass through matter. We build giant machines to detect single...
View ArticleCan the brain detect the passage of a neutrino?
On a few occasions either in bed or sitting around a fire, with my eyes closed, I rarely but sometimes see a very quick fast flash of white and then, with my eyes still closed, the flash disappears...
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