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Detective thriller meets astrophysics in this adventure into
neutrinos and the scientists who pursue them
The incredibly small bits of matter we call neutrinos may hold the
secret to why antimatter is so rare, how mighty stars explode as
supernovae, what the universe was like just seconds after the big
bang, and even the inner workings of our own planet.
For more than eighty years, adventurous minds from around the world
have been chasing these ghostly particles, "trillions "of which
pass through our bodies every second. Extremely elusive and
difficult to pin down, neutrinos are not unlike the brilliant and
eccentric scientists who doggedly pursue them.
In "Neutrino Hunters," the renowned astrophysicist and
award-winning writer Ray Jayawardhana takes us on a thrilling
journey into the shadowy world of neutrinos and the colorful lives
of those who seek them. Demystifying particle science along the
way, Jayawardhana tells a detective story with cosmic
implications--interweaving tales of the sharp-witted theorist
Wolfgang Pauli; the troubled genius Ettore Majorana; the harbinger
of the atomic age Enrico Fermi; the notorious Cold War defector
Bruno Pontecorvo; and the dynamic dream team of Marie and Pierre
Curie. Then there are the scientists of today who have caught the
neutrino bug, and whose experimental investigations stretch from a
working nickel mine in Ontario to a long tunnel through a mountain
in central Italy, from a nuclear waste site in New Mexico to a bay
on the South China Sea, and from Olympic-size pools deep
underground to a gigantic cube of Antarctic ice--called, naturally,
IceCube.
As Jayawardhana recounts a captivating saga of scientific discovery
and celebrates a glorious human quest, he reveals why the next
decade of neutrino hunting will redefine how we think about
physics, cosmology, and our lives on Earth.
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