Neutrinos: Little-noticed breakthrough lets scientists see distant cosmos like never before
Neutrinos: Little-noticed breakthrough lets scientists see distant cosmos like never before
By GlobalPost
Wednesday, January 15, 2014 6:40 EST
PORTLAND, Maine — Imagine being one of the very first humans, tens of thousands of years ago, to actually look up at the night sky. You’d see dozens of lights and other sights, with no understanding of what they were, where they were, or anything else. You might think they were just “pinholes in the curtain of night.”
Only after centuries of study, with the invention of countless increasingly complex devices to peer into the sky, can we say we know anything at all about planets, stars, galaxies, and the universe as a whole.
But a recent scientific discovery has brought us back to that very first night: to the very beginning of our exploration, and to the realization of just how rudimentary our knowledge is.
After decades of searching, scientists have detected high-energy subatomic particles originating from previously unknown sources in the universe.
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http://www.rawstory.com/rs/2014/01/15/neutrinos-little-noticed-breakthrough-lets-scientists-see-distant-cosmos-like-never-before/
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