Sean Carroll's Mindscape: Science, Society, Philosophy, Culture, Arts, and Ideas · Sean Carroll
Ryan Patterson on the Physics of Neutrinos
December 8, 2025·1 hr 26 min·5 clips
Neutrinos only experience the weak force, passing through everything with 100,000 in your coffee cup at any moment.
As heard by us
A neutrino conversation that links standard-model gaps to the mechanics of making and tracking a beam.
Sean Carroll frames the conversation around neutrinos as a useful way to test where the standard model still falls short, while also showing how real experiments are designed and read.
Why you'd press play
For when neutrinos need to stop being a word and start being a problem.
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