Ghost Particle: In Search of the Elusive and Mysterious Neutrino

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. And yet the nothing-particle was not a nothing at all.” In fact, as one of the most enigmatic and most populous particles in the universe—about 100 trillion are flying through you every second—the neutrino may hold the clues to some o...