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I would expect it to be more likely to punch through skin than to actually propel you.

But also neutrinos don't typically collide with things very easily, they're more likely to pass through you without you ever knowing.



I was thinking the same though. It doesn't interact often, but if it randomly does annihilate with another particle in your body, at such a small scale (subatomic) that force/pressure just destroys anything in its path no? Like a paint flake hitting a space ship. Or is it more like "light" (since they're iirc their own antiparticle), which is then absorbed by surrounding matter and turns into heat?

In the wrong spot, this sounds to me like it kills you?

Nothing to be afraid of, of course, for the reason you mentioned. Just wondering, xkcd "what if" style


Yeah there's no way it would be able to grip onto anything, probably more like the Bugorski case, where he stuck his head into a particle accelerator and a proton beam went right through his head.




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