Alan Chodos

Oct 17, 2024 | thereader.mitpress.mit.edu | Alan Chodos |Christopher Mason |Erika Nesvold

BeeLine Reader uses subtle color gradients to help you read more efficiently. Neutrinos. They’re tiny, just points in space. Each one barely affects anything else. They pass through you, the Earth, and the sun with hardly a trace. They almost never reveal themselves, but without them we couldn’t know why the stars shine. Each has a minute mass. And while their individual interactions are meager, there are so many that, all together, they might change the courses of galaxies.

Feb 28, 2023 | mitpress.mit.edu | Alan Chodos |Don Lincoln

The fascinating story of science in pursuit of the ghostly, ubiquitous subatomic particle—the neutrino. Isaac Asimov is said to have observed of the neutrino: “The only reason scientists suggested its existence was their need to make calculations come out even.