(November 8, 2023 at 6:09 pm)Brian37 Wrote: I forgot, neutrinos can pass through a solid planet without hitting anything. Why? Because they are incredibly fucking "FUCK ME" small, no not Donald Trump small, but really really really small.
I saw Neil deGrasse Tyson describe it as as being like a baseball diamond on Cosmos, with the diamond being any given atom in the planet and the neutrino being a mere baseball between the electrons(bases) and outfield and infield and between bases being empty space.
And the Japanese neutrino detector recently scored a hit on one.
