{"id":211412,"date":"2025-04-14T17:08:13","date_gmt":"2025-04-14T22:08:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2025\/04\/neutrino-mass-most-precise-measurement-shows-they-are-a-million-times-smaller-than-electrons"},"modified":"2025-04-14T17:08:13","modified_gmt":"2025-04-14T22:08:13","slug":"neutrino-mass-most-precise-measurement-shows-they-are-a-million-times-smaller-than-electrons","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2025\/04\/neutrino-mass-most-precise-measurement-shows-they-are-a-million-times-smaller-than-electrons","title":{"rendered":"Neutrino mass: most precise measurement shows they are a million times smaller than electrons"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/neutrino-mass-most-precise-measurement-shows-they-are-a-million-times-smaller-than-electrons.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Physicists in Germany have performed the most accurate measurement of the mass of the fundamental particle neutrinos. The finding deepens physicists\u2019 attempts to uncover laws of nature beyond even the best current theories.<\/p>\n<p>The <a href=\"https:\/\/cosmosmagazine.com\/science\/physics\/particle-physics-standard-model\/\">standard model of particle physics<\/a> \u2013 the best theory which explains the fundamental forces and particles of nature \u2013 posits that <a href=\"https:\/\/cosmosmagazine.com\/science\/physics\/first-collider-neutrino\/\">neutrinos<\/a> are massless. Experiments, however, suggest that they <em>do<\/em> have mass.<\/p>\n<p>Measuring the neutrino mass could explain the limitations of the standard model and offer insights into new areas of physics and beyond.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Physicists in Germany have performed the most accurate measurement of the mass of the fundamental particle neutrinos. The finding deepens physicists\u2019 attempts to uncover laws of nature beyond even the best current theories. The standard model of particle physics \u2013 the best theory which explains the fundamental forces and particles of nature \u2013 posits that [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":662,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[48],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-211412","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-particle-physics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/211412","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/662"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=211412"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/211412\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=211412"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=211412"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=211412"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}