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Do neutrinos not have mass? I think you mean electric charge.
“Almost massless”. Neutrino masses are so small that they haven’t been measured (yet).
Science must make some scientists go insane when they can see something, know some of its properties and such, but you can't empirically measure it or really prove it exists.
"The neutrinos are just in your head, Wolfgang."
Well the thing is: it's even worse! We HAVE measured 'the' neutrino mass, sort of (not really). We have an absolutely fricking tiny upper bound! For all three masses added together... And yes, there are three separate neutrino masses just like there are sorta three 'types' of Neutrinos. But the real kicker is: it is literally impossible to assign any specific mass to any specific type!!
You can either talk about the type of a neutrino OR it's mass but not both at the same time because apparently we looked too close and quantum mechanics decided it needed to fuck with us some more to discourage further probing.
That's just the debugger fixing errors in the universe simulation ;)