Trillions of neutrinos pass through your body every second, and you never feel them. They’re called “ghost particles” because they almost never interact with anything.
The IceCube Neutrino Observatory, a detector buried in a cubic kilometer of Antarctic ice, is catching very high-energy ones from deep space. Some carry about 10 billion times the energy of the neutrinos coming from the Sun.
Why it matters
- Because neutrinos fly straight through almost everything, they carry clean information from the most extreme places in the universe.
- Research on neutrinos has been part of five Nobel Prizes in Physics. This year Francis Halzen won for his work on IceCube and finding high-energy neutrinos from space.
- Scientists hope they’ll shed light on the Big Bang and the universe’s most violent events.
What a creation. “The heavens declare the glory of God” (Psalm 19:1), and some of that glory comes through as particles we can barely catch.
God Bless, and Use the Source!
