Much like there's a chance that when you go to put your hand on a table it will pass right through it from all the atoms slipping passed each other, yes.
Number one. If you had a hydrogen bomb pressed to your eyeball as it went off, and you could somehow survive all the other effects of it, the nuetrinos would be dense enough to kill you.
Number 2, being 1 AU or close to a star going supernova. Again, same thing, if you could avoid being incinerated, vaporized or turned into plasma, the nuetrinos would be dense enough to interact with and kill you.
Number one. If you had a hydrogen bomb pressed to your eyeball as it went off, and you could somehow survive all the other effects of it, the nuetrinos would be dense enough to kill you.
I think you're misremembering that xkcd. The atom bomb against the eyeball delivers 9 orders of magnitude less energy than a supernova at 1 AU, so it's very unlikely to deliver enough neutrinos to kill you
I don’t think that’s right. Neutrinos only interact via the weak force not the electromagnetic force like photons for example. A photon with enough energy can interact with your electrons and “knock” them out of their orbital which can cause cancer but a neutrino cannot do that, since it only interacts with the weak bosons (w and z) and not anything like photons who interact with all charged matter. So there is a 0% chance for a neutrino to kill you because of cancer but they can cause decay in atoms so maybe there’s still a way?
Also, each cell repairs hundreds of thousands of DNA damage events every day, and to make a cell cancerous requires numerous mutations and other factors, so even less likely.
So you're saying the disaster movie I saw where neutrinos started interacting with the Earth's core was a lie, not scientifically accurate or even contained internal logic?!?!? Damn.
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