How the Neutrino’s Tiny Mass Could Help Solve Big Mysteries
Reprinted with permission from Quanta Magazine’s Abstractions blog.
Of all the known particles in the universe, only photons outnumber neutrinos. Despite their abundance, however, neutrinos are hard to catch and inspect, as they interact with matter only very weakly. About a thousand trillion of the ghostly particles pass through your body every second—with nary a flinch from even a single atom.
“The fact that they’re ubiquitous, yet we don’t even know what they weigh, is kind of crazy,” said , a physicist at the Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory near Chicago and
