very likely behind on a few replies already but im just gonna push it on the stack ...
though google keeps telling me in lots of places the standard model isnt actually proven , CERN itself seems to have a more nuanced opinion
.it is not time for physicists to call it a day just yet. Even though the Standard Model is currently the best description there is of the subatomic world, it does not explain the complete picture. The theory incorporates only three out of the four fundamental forces, omitting gravity. There are also important questions that it does not answer, such as “What is dark matter?”, or “What happened to the antimatter after the big bang?”, “Why are there three generations of quarks and leptons with such a different mass scale?” and more. Last but not least is a particle called the Higgs boson, an essential component of the Standard Model.
A lot of why but that's the reasons theorists exist ofcourse (and i suppose CERN has every reason to defend the model, lol)
Same thing for the neutrinos although i do remember that bit on indirect detection which i think you wrote and cherenkov radiation (which i think i got from a bbc horizon or something) so as stated here and [here](For study, neutrinos can be created artificially with nuclear reactors and particle accelerators.) where it says you can actually artificially create them in an accelerator ?
It also says they do interact with gravity but 'not with the strong force' o wait heh ... okay ....
o yea it says 'weak sub-atomic force' AND 'gravity there, they interact with both of them, i assumed until now weak force is a synonym for gravity , so it's not ?
(that's a nasty billboard steemstem has there btw, like HUGE)
This is all in theory (because it's theoretical physics) but the numbers work out so can i , for the time being, consider the sterile neutrino the missing link that will plug 95% of the gaping hole the universe is at the moment ?
(ill get back to the other replies too but its weeks at the moment, i wish i could say i had no time lol, i just have no brain lately and time seems to be having me, not the other way around)
RE: Sterile neutrinos as a path to dark matter