Sentences with phrase «ghostly subatomic particles»

In October Raymond Davis Jr. of the University of Pennsylvania and Brookhaven National Laboratory shared a Nobel Prize for detecting solar neutrinos and discovering that the sun emits far fewer than expected of these ghostly subatomic particles — a finding that exposed a serious flaw in our understanding of fundamental natural laws.

These measurements have the potential to narrow down the estimates for the mass of ghostly subatomic particles known as neutrinos.

Just months earlier, he had suggested that neutrinos — those ghostly subatomic particles that flit through the Earth as easily as raindrops through a spring sky — might have the ability to travel through time.

A year and half ago, physicists working with the massive IceCube particle detector — a 3D array of 5160 light sensors buried kilometers deep in ice at the South Pole — spotted ghostly subatomic particles called neutrinos from beyond our galaxy.

If the result is correct, these ghostly subatomic particles, which fly through the Earth as if it were transparent, could be a major component of the mysterious dark matter that fills the Universe and which governs its ultimate fate.

Giorgio Gratta, a physicist at Stanford University, is going fishing for high - energy neutrinos, ghostly subatomic particles that bombard Earth from unknown objects in deep space.

The ghostly subatomic particles seem to have zipped faster than light from the particle physics laboratory near Geneva, Switzerland, to a detector in Italy.

Not exact matches

Whatever term you use, the descriptor refers to the ghostly link between subatomic particles that act in tandem no matter the distance between them.