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If you produce a lot of neutrinos over a short period of time, and then let them travel a distance long enough that their rest mass makes an appreciable difference in their travel time compared to photons emitted at the same time:
Will they arrive:
1) At 3 separate periods of time because the 3 mass eigenstates each have a different rest mass, speed and arrival time, or
2) At the same time, because each neutrino oscillates through all 3 mass eigenstates, and over several oscillation periods has a single average speed and a single valued average rest mass?
Will they arrive:
1) At 3 separate periods of time because the 3 mass eigenstates each have a different rest mass, speed and arrival time, or
2) At the same time, because each neutrino oscillates through all 3 mass eigenstates, and over several oscillation periods has a single average speed and a single valued average rest mass?