As Lewis Mumford put it, “if man had not encountered dragons and hippogriffs in dream, he might never have conceived of the atom.”
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High energy emissions from the Sun • NASA/JPL-Caltech/GSFC
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A wisp of matter
The neutrino is the spook of the world of subatomic particles. It has no electric charge, and possibly no mass. It is a mere whiff of a particle, a whisper of matter, a sweet nothing. The neutrino is only barely lodged in the realm of existence.