A primordial black hole may have spewed the highest energy neutrino ever found

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John Clark

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This is rather circumstantial.

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John Clark

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Sep 23, 2025, 3:05:04 PM (5 days ago) Sep 23
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On Tue, Sep 23, 2025 at 2:38 PM Lawrence Crowell <goldenfield...@gmail.com> wrote:

This is rather circumstantial.

Whatever caused that super high energy neutrino it must have been something fundamentally new, like an exploding primordial black hole or something else that was equally strange because no known phenomenon could've done it. 

John K Clark


 

Lawrence Crowell

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Sep 24, 2025, 5:29:48 AM (4 days ago) Sep 24
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On Tue, Sep 23, 2025 at 2:05 PM John Clark <johnk...@gmail.com> wrote:
On Tue, Sep 23, 2025 at 2:38 PM Lawrence Crowell <goldenfield...@gmail.com> wrote:

This is rather circumstantial.

Whatever caused that super high energy neutrino it must have been something fundamentally new, like an exploding primordial black hole or something else that was equally strange because no known phenomenon could've done it. 

John K Clark


The problem amounts to making an inference from one data point. This neutrino might be from a primordial black hole quantum decaying into a Planck energy burst. but one particle event recorded is not enough to make an inference.

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On Wed, Sep 24, 2025 at 5:29 AM Lawrence Crowell <goldenfield...@gmail.com> wrote:
>> Whatever caused that super high energy neutrino it must have been something fundamentally new, like an exploding primordial black hole or something else that was equally strange because no known phenomenon could've done it. 

The problem amounts to making an inference from one data point. This neutrino might be from a primordial black hole quantum decaying into a Planck energy burst. but one particle event recorded is not enough to make an inference.

I agree. But if we find more super high energy neutrinos can you think of another explanation for their occurrence other than the decay and explosion of a small primordial black hole?

John K Clark  

 
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