12/10/2026
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Alam mo bang walang exempted sa ghosting?
There exist tiny โ๐๐๐๐๐ ๐๐๐๐๐๐๐๐๐," called ๐ฃ๐๐ช๐ฉ๐ง๐๐ฃ๐ค๐จ, that pass through your body every second. These neutrinos donโt have any electric charge, and they primarily interact via the weak nuclear force. This allows them to travel through LARGE amounts of matter. In fact, a single neutrino can pass through the entire Earth! They almost never interact with matter, which lets them pass through without leaving a trace (like ghosts!)
Looking at them this way, neutrinos seem insignificant. So, why are physicists studying them? Neutrinos are created in the universe's most violent events (like exploding stars and supermassive black holes). Unlike light, which gets blocked by space dust or other particles that get bent by magnetic fields, they travel across billions of light-years in a perfectly straight line. Studying them lets scientists see directly into phenomena that ordinary telescopes arenโt able to see. But how do scientists catch something that's practically invisible?
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๐ซ๐๐ง๐๐ข๐ฌ ๐๐๐ฅ๐ณ๐๐ง helped pioneer the ๐๐๐๐พ๐ช๐๐ ๐๐๐ช๐ฉ๐ง๐๐ฃ๐ค ๐๐๐จ๐๐ง๐ซ๐๐ฉ๐ค๐ง๐ฎ, a large-scale detector buried beneath Antarctic ice, equipped with over 5,000 light sensors. Halzen and his team managed to turn a natural glacier into a particle trap! Why ice?
Antarctic ice is clear and protected from interference at the surface. When a neutrino occasionally interacts with matter in the ice, it can produce a fast-moving charged particle that emits a faint blue glow called Cherenkov radiation (the optical equivalent of a sonic boom). By detecting these flashes, IceCube's sensors can estimate the neutrino's energy and reconstruct the direction it came from, helping scientists trace its possible cosmic origins.
In 2013, IceCube announced the discovery of high-energy neutrinos from beyond Earth's atmosphere, opening a new window into the universe through neutrino astronomy. For his pioneering contributions to IceCube and the discovery of high-energy astrophysical neutrinos, Francis Halzen was awarded the 2026 Nobel Prize in Physics. โ๏ธ
Turns out, even the universe's most elusive ghosters can't stay hidden forever! ๐ป
If you want to read more about neutrinos or IceCube, you can access these references:
[1] Nobel Prize in Physics 2026. (n.d.). NobelPrize.org. https://www.nobelprize.org/prizes/physics/2026/press-release/
IceCube. (n.d.). IceCube. https://icecube.wisc.edu/science/icecube/
[2] Schirber, M. (2026, October 6). Nobel Prize: Neutrinos from Far, Far Away (Updated). Physics. https://physics.aps.org/articles/v19/138
[3] The puzzle of neutrinos, seventy years on โ Home | CERN. (2026, July 20). https://home.cern/the-puzzle-of-neutrinos-seventy-years-on/
โ๏ธ: Christine Soriano
๐จ: Nico Cariรฑo
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