Sunday, 15 December 2024

Neutrinos

Billions of particles are passing through your body at this moment and throughout your life. They're called Neutrinos and they have almost no mass and don't interact much with matter. 
~ image generated by artificial intelligence (chatGPT) 

They're thought to be created by the nuclear fusion reactions inside stars and cosmic events. They can be detected but only a small number of them and the detector needs to be very large. 

~Book: Neutrino by Frank Close