Quantum SHAPE-SHIFTING: Neutrino Oscillations

Thanks to the Heising-Simons Foundation for supporting this video: http://www.heisingsimons.org CRAZY Double Pendulum Footnote: https://youtu.be/gbJYK7q5ejY Support MinutePhysics on Patreon! http://www.patreon.com/minutephysics Link to Patreon Supporters: http://www.minutephysics.com/supporters/ This video is about the phenomenon of neutrino oscillations, which is where neutrinos can change flavors (ie, change between electron, muon, or tau neutrinos) because those interaction states are in non-trivial superpositions of the free traveling/mass eigenstates (𝜈1, 𝜈2 and 𝜈3). MinutePhysics is on twitter - @minutephysics And facebook - http://facebook.com/minutephysics And Google+ (does anyone use this any more?) - http://bit.ly/qzEwc6 REFERENCES History of Neutrino Oscillations: https://arxiv.org/pdf/hep-ph/0610064.pdf Solar Neutrino Problem: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Solar_neutrino_problem Neutrino Oscillation on Wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Neutrino_oscillation#Propagation_and_interference Current best fit data for the mixing of neutrinos: http://www.nu-fit.org/?q=node/139 Neutrino Mixing Matrix: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pontecorvo–Maki–Nakagawa–Sakata_matrix Neutrino Oscillation https://profmattstrassler.com/articles-and-posts/particle-physics-basics/neutrinos/neutrino-types-and-neutrino-oscillations/ Neutrino Masses paper: https://arxiv.org/pdf/1307.3518.pdf Neutral Particle Oscillation: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Neutral_particle_oscillation Technical Intro to Neutrino Mass Mixing: http://pdg.lbl.gov/2015/reviews/rpp2015-rev-neutrino-mixing.pdf PROSPECT project: http://prospect.yale.edu/science Neutrino/nucleon deep inelastic scattering: https://www.nevis.columbia.edu/ccfr/index.html Minute Physics provides an energetic and entertaining view of old and new problems in physics -- all in a minute! Created by Henry Reich