I came across a question that states
What mass would a neutrino need to still be relativistic today (T = 2.37K) ?
So for a particle to be relativistic we need $pc \gg mc^2$
Well Neutrino was relativistic in the early universe, so I took the time when the neutrino decoupled which is approximately $\approx 1 MeV$
So I did something like
$$\frac{E_{now}}{E_{dec}} = \frac{kT_{now}}{T_{dec}} = \frac{8.617\times 10^{-5} eV K^{-1} \times 2.73K}{1Mev} = 2.35 \times 10^{-10}$$
But I am kind of stuck here since we need some value for the neutrino mass I guess ? Or my approach is completely wrong (?) In general, how can we solve this kind of problem? What makes the transition from Non-Relativistic to the relativistic case? The temperature of the universe right..? For instance when the temperature of the universe was larger than the $1 MeV$ we would call protons relativistic
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($\gg$) rather than>>
($>>$). Second I would not necessarily take "relativistic" to imply "energy much greater than mass"; depending on the context just being comparable to mass would be sufficient. If I really meant energy much greater than mass I would say "highly relativistic". $\endgroup$