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#Neutrinos: The inscrutable “ghost particles” driving scientists crazy
Occasionally, heavy atomic #nuclei spontaneously transform, with either #neutron converting into #proton or vice-versa, known as #betadecay. But #electrons never came out of nucleus with same energy; always little different. Something had to sap energy away from electron in a random way to explain this. Eventually, that particle got a name, the neutrino, an Italian word meaning “little neutral one.”
arstechnica.com/science/2024/0