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I was reading about the Neutrino Theory of Light (just for its learning value, I know it is not accepted that much these days), I came to a sentence in Wikipedia that was comparing light with neutrino and said:

"Light's waves are transverse while Neutrino's waves are Longitudinal".

Does it mean Neutrinos move like sound waves?

Are they different from other particles in that way?

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  • $\begingroup$ we now know neutrinos have a mass, and thus are not light like, as they have variable velocities. The probability of their existing at (x,y,z,t) has a sinusoidal nature. $\endgroup$
    – anna v
    Commented Sep 13, 2016 at 17:02
  • $\begingroup$ It's not clear to me what this question is asking - what "longitudinal" and "transverse" mean you can easily search for. What exactly do you want to know about "neutrino waves"? $\endgroup$
    – ACuriousMind ♦
    Commented Sep 14, 2016 at 14:55
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    $\begingroup$ @ACuriousMind In my opinion, he thinks to sound waves in a neutrino gas. Or, to the QFT description of the neutrino field. My naive layman intuition says it is longitudinal in both cases. $\endgroup$
    – peterh
    Commented Sep 14, 2016 at 18:27

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