Neutrinos – The Ghost Particles

Podcast: Talking Science · Stavros kinnas

Opublikowano: 2026-10-22

Right now, a hundred trillion particles from the Sun are passing through your body every second, and you'll never feel one. This episode traces the neutrino from Wolfgang Pauli's reluctant 1930 prediction, through its first detection near a nuclear reactor, to the decades-long solar neutrino problem and its resolution through neutrino oscillation, the supernova that let neutrino detectors beat light to the punch, and the giant ice-bound telescope now using neutrinos to study the most violent events in the universe. You'll come away understanding why Pauli proposed neutrinos to rescue energy conservation, why these particles interact with matter...