Every second, trillions of neutrinos stream through your body, your house, and the entire Earth as if almost nothing were there. What are these ghostly particles, and why have they transformed modern physics? The Invisible Flood invites curious readers into one of science's strangest stories: a particle so elusive it seemed almost impossible to detect, yet so important it has rewritten what physicists thought they knew about the universe. From a missing bit of energy in radioactive decay to the first triumphant detection beside a nuclear reactor, this book follows neutrinos from bold hypothesis to cosmic messenger. Readers will discover how neutrinos come in three flavors, how they mysteriously change identity as they travel, and why that shape-shifting revealed that neutrinos possess mass after all. Along the way, giant detectors buried in mountains, sunk in water, and frozen into Antarctic ice become tools for listening to the Sun, catching signals from exploding stars, and tracing the most violent events in the cosmos. Lively, clear, and rich with scientific drama, The Invisible Flood makes frontier physics feel graspable without oversimplifying it. Blending history, big ideas, and astonishing experiments, it offers an accessible guide to the particle that passes through everything-and opens a window onto the deepest workings of nature.

Titel
The Invisible Flood
Untertitel
How Neutrinos Pass Through Everything - and What They Reveal About the Universe
EAN
6610001265243
Format
E-Book (epub)
Digitaler Kopierschutz
frei
Dateigrösse
2.86 MB
Anzahl Seiten
280