Neutrinos pass through Earth like ghosts
Neutrinos, tiny particles from space, effortlessly pass through Earth and your body, offering a unique window into the universe's most hidden processes and phenomena.
Every second, trillions of tiny particles called neutrinos stream through your body and the entire Earth without you even noticing. These subatomic particles, born from nuclear reactions in stars and supernovae, have almost no mass and no electric charge, allowing them to interact incredibly weakly with matter. This means they can travel straight through dense objects, including our planet, as if it were completely transparent. This ghostly ability makes neutrinos invaluable for studying the universe's hidden workings, from the Sun's core to distant cosmic events, and even probing the Earth's interior.