Why Scientists Are Hunting Ghost Particles in Space

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[00:00:00]What if I told you that right now, trillions of ghost particles from the Sun are passing through your body every second? And scientists believe these particles could help explain why the universe [music] even exists. These particles are called neutrinos, and scientists have just launched the world's [music] first space-based neutrino detector to study them. But here's why this is so important.

[00:00:20]>> [music] >> Almost everything we know about the universe comes from light. Telescopes study visible light, radio [music] waves, x-rays, and infrared radiation.

[00:00:28]But light has a major limitation. It doesn't escape directly from the Sun's [music] core. Inside the Sun, light particles called photons constantly collide with dense matter. They bounce around for thousands, sometimes [music] even hundreds of thousands of years before finally escaping into space. So when we look at sunlight, [music] we are not seeing the Sun exactly as it is right now. We are seeing delayed information. Neutrinos are completely [music] different. They barely interact with matter at all. They pass through stars, planets, oceans, [music] and even your body almost untouched. That means neutrinos produced in the Sun's core escape almost instantly and travel straight to Earth carrying real-time [music] information from deep inside the Sun. To study these ghost particles, scientists launched a tiny satellite called SNAPPY, the first attempt to detect solar neutrinos [music] directly from space. And this could completely transform astronomy. Until now, neutrino detectors had to be enormous underground facilities hidden beneath mountains, Antarctic ice, or deep underground tunnels just to shield them from radiation and noise. But if scientists can successfully detect neutrinos in space, future missions could directly study the hidden interiors of stars, supernovas, and some of the most extreme places in the universe. And neutrinos are already changing physics. Scientists discovered that neutrinos can [music] change their type while traveling through space. But according to the standard model of physics, that should have been impossible. The discovery proved that our best [music] theory of reality is incomplete. Now, researchers think neutrinos may help explain [music] dark matter, black holes, and one of the greatest mysteries in science, why matter survived [music] after the Big Bang instead of the universe destroying itself completely. In other words, these tiny ghost particles [music] might hold clues to why anything exists at all. For centuries, humanity explored the universe using light, but now, [music] for the first time, we are learning to explore the hidden universe using entirely different cosmic messengers, >> [music] >> neutrinos. Maybe the universe has always been speaking to us in ways we simply couldn't hear [music] before. Would you travel to space to study ghost particles from the sun? Tell me in the comments.