Elementary Particles
milhayser | August 31, 2011
On Brookhaven Bits & Bytes, Steve Kettell brings us up to speed on a new research project taking place beneath a mountain in southern China. The object of study is the neutrino, which can "pass through the Earth and through much of the universe without interacting with anything." Ethan Siegel explains on Starts With a Bang: "Neutrinos only interact gravitationally and through the weak force. They have no electromagnetic interactions." And because they have no charge, neutrinos are free to pass between the atoms that make up tangible matter. Steve writes that neutrinos from the sun…