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The Elusive Neutrino

07/02/2017

It's the most common particle in the universe. But we can't see it, don't know how big it is and still have a hard time detecting it more than sixty years after its discovery. It's the elusive neutrino, a submicroscopic particle that weighs almost nothing, has zero electric charge and virtually no interaction with the rest of the universe. In nature, neutrinos are created in vast numbers by every star. Our sun, for example. In the time it took you to read this sentence, 65 billion solar

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