338 | Ryan Patterson on the Physics of Neutrinos

<p>The story goes that Wolfgang Pauli, who first proposed the existence of neutrinos, was embarrassed to have done so, as it was considered uncouth to hypothesize new particles that could not be detected. Modern physicists have no such scruples, of course, but more importantly neutrinos turn out to be very detectable, given sufficient resources and experimental technique. I talk with neutrino physicist Ryan Patterson about what current and upcoming experiments teach us about neutrinos themselves, as well as implications for dark matter and why there are more particles than antiparticles in the universe.</p> <p>Blog post with transcript: <a href="https://www.preposterousuniverse.com/podcast/2025/12/08/228-ryan-patterson-on-the-physics-of-neutrinos/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">https://www.preposterousuniverse.com/podcast/2025/12/08/228-ryan-patterson-on-the-physics-of-neutrinos/</a></p> <p>S<em>upport Mindscape on </em><a href="https://www.patreon.com/seanmcarroll" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank"><em>Patreon</em></a><em>.</em></p> <p>Ryan Patterson received his Ph.D. in physics from Princeton University. He is currently Professor of Physics at Caltech. His research involves a number of aspects of experimental neutrino physics, including involvement in the <a href="https://novaexperiment.fnal.gov/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">NOvA</a> and <a href="http://www.dunescience.org/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">DUNE</a> experiments.</p> <ul> <li><a href="https://www.its.caltech.edu/~rbpatter/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Caltech web page</a></li> <li><a href="https://inspirehep.net/authors/1046583?ui-citation-summary=true" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Publications at inSpire</a></li> </ul> <p><br /></p>