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Have neutrinos ever been used in some sci-fi premise? (lemmy.ml)

submitted 2 months ago by maegul@lemmy.ml to c/casualconversation@lemm.ee

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Seems like fertile ground for coming up with something fun and interesting ... a whole shadow universe that barely touches ours ... but I don't think I've ever seen it.

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[–] Varyk@sh.itjust.works 22 points 2 months ago (1 children)

yes, they're an extremely common sci-fi presence in comics, movies, video games, pretty much any half-science dimensional thing you need to happen that can't be explained.

the movie 2012 is about neutrinos going crazy after a solar flare, I'm having trouble finding the countless examples of neutrinos being used in comics because apparently a team called "the neutrinos" made their way into the TMNT universe at some point.

but yeah, it's pretty popular to hear neutrinos did this or that in sci-fi premises because of their omnipresence and weird behavior and not really understanding them.

[–] voracitude@lemmy.world 3 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

apparently a team called "the neutrinos" made their way into the TMNT universe at some point

So the creators themselves named their (super?)hero team after particles that are so insubstantial and ineffective that 99.8% of the entire universe will never even acknowledge their existence?

Brütal.

[–] essell@lemmy.world 22 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Jack Oneil kept calling them nintendos. 🤷

[–] Psaldorn@lemmy.world 14 points 2 months ago (2 children)

O'Neill. Two Ls.

[–] flux@lemmyis.fun 3 points 2 months ago

"There's another Colonel O'Neil with one L. He has no sense of humor at all."

[–] leftzero@lemmynsfw.com 1 points 2 months ago

There's another colonel O'Neil with only one L. He has... no sense of humor at all.

[–] Cagi@lemmy.ca 16 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) (1 children)

Professor Farnsworth teaches a course on the quantum fields they generate: https://youtu.be/3hvzmxarAh8

[–] tiefling@lemmy.blahaj.zone 10 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

Ah yes, wonton burrito fields

[–] Kyle@lemdro.id 13 points 2 months ago (2 children)

Every episode of Star Trek: TNG that isn't about tachyons.

[–] teft@lemmy.world 11 points 2 months ago

Neutrino disturbances are how they found the wormhole in DS9.

[–] maegul@lemmy.ml 2 points 2 months ago

Ha ... maybe ... I feel like they're just all the other random particles that come up in TNG-era trek ... maybe more so?

[–] youRFate@feddit.org 9 points 2 months ago

In the later books of the three Body Problem series they use them for long range directional communications.

[–] andrew_s@piefed.social 8 points 2 months ago (2 children)

I watched Alien: Covenant the other day - it's a 'neutrino storm' that initially disabled their ship (you can't predict 'em, apparently)

[–] maegul@lemmy.ml 4 points 2 months ago (2 children)

that feels, perhaps not coincidentally ... like it shouldn't make sense ... like neutrinos don't really interact with normal matter, that's kinda their deal, right ... unless it was something to do with fusion engines or soemthing?

[–] neidu2@feddit.nl 6 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Obligatory:
https://what-if.xkcd.com/73/

[–] maegul@lemmy.ml 3 points 2 months ago

Today I was one if the 10,000

[–] Amputret@lemmy.dbzer0.com 5 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) (1 children)

Yeah, it overloaded their energy collection sail. Though humanity solved M theory in that setting so maybe they can derive energy from neutrinos… somehow.

[–] maegul@lemmy.ml 3 points 2 months ago

Yea interesting ... maybe it makes quite a bit of sense (for sci-fi) ... a gush of neutrinos (if that makes sense at all) would likely be unpredictable as they could come from some distant astronomical event but precede any other signs of the event occurring (such as light or other frequencies)

[–] shalafi@lemmy.world 1 points 2 months ago

I can usually pass off on the dumb science, but that one still makes me mad.

"There's a neutrino storm coming!"

"So?"

"Quadrillions of them per square meter!"

"So?"

"You don't underst... Never mind. It's over."

[–] Monstera@lemmy.ml 5 points 2 months ago

The neutrinos! They're changing!!!!

[–] HubertManne@moist.catsweat.com 4 points 2 months ago

aren't they constantly mentioned in star trek.

[–] leftzero@lemmynsfw.com 3 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

In Arthur C. Clarke's The Songs of Distant Earth the Sun has gone nova due to the Solar Neutrino Anomaly that was still unsolved at the time he wrote the book.

In Charles Stross' Iron Sunrise the whole population of a solar system receives a technically lethal dose of neutrinos when their star is caused to go nova (technically lethal because it doesn't have time to kill them, as they die seconds later when the rest of the exploding star hits them).

[–] TonyTonyChopper@mander.xyz 1 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Some believe you can harness them for free energy

[–] maegul@lemmy.ml 1 points 2 months ago

Huh