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Neutrino
As expected, I was completely out of my element here. Too much Science. However, I understood enough of it to see what was going on. Kind of. Here's brief outline.Neutrinos are byproducts of beta decay, a type of radioactivity were mass turns into energy or something. So these scientists were examining this and they found that something was wrong- their was some particles missing from the transformation. Paulis, a scientist back then (early to mid-20th century) had an idea that there was a massless, chargeless, invisible particle that was carrying away the missing energy. He was basically right. The neutrino, which in Italian means Little Neutron, has almost no mass, is very hard to detect, moves with relative speeds, and has no charge, much like a neutron, it's namesake. There are three types of neutrinos- tau-neutrinos, muon-neutrinos, and electron-neutrinos. This is based on the particle that is released alongside the neutrino. Taus and muons are just heavier electrons. And then there was alot more complicated ideas and all, with detectors involving ice, some special light that revealed the oresence of a neutrino, and heavy water. This book was really well scripted, and was not just meant for uber-scientists. You just need some understanding of matter, Matter and Energy conservation, a tiny bit of Special Relativity (know what e=mc squared means) and you should be able to interpret most of it. Now I'm goingto read Anti-Matter by Frank Close And let me know if I left out any reallyimportant details, or am plain wrong, or if you know about neutrinos and can explain them to me in the comments! Thanks.