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Stalking the Wild Nutrino | Cosmos: A Spacetime Odyssey


stalking the wild neutrino was the
rarest of sport the length one must code
track them down nothing short of
astonishing welcome to super kameoka
subterranean Japanese neutrino detection
chamber more than a half-mile these are
surface you might ask well who in the
right mind would bury an astronomical
observatory so far underground those who
hunt the most elusive prey on the cosmos
the neutrino this enormous array of
light detectors surrounding 50,000 tons
of distilled water is a trap designed to
catch the trio’s own but a particles
such as cosmic rains you sleep protons
and electrons that rained down from
space cannot get through all that rock
above us but matter poses no obstacle to
neutrino neutrino could pass through a
hundred light-years of steel without
even slowing down
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