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Detective thriller satisfies astrophysics in this experience into neutrinos and the researchers who pursue them. For more than 80 years, brilliant and eccentric researchers throughout the world have been searching for the extremely small bits of subject we call neutrinos. Trillions of the ghostly particles pass through our bodies every second, but they are so pathologically timid that neutrino hunters have to use Olympic-size pools deep underground and a gigantic cube of Antarctic glaciers to catch simply a handful. Neutrinos may hold the secrets to the nature of antimatter and the particular world was like just secs following the big bang, but they are really elusive and difficult to pin down - similar to the adventurous researchers who doggedly pursue them. In Neutrino Hunters, renowned astrophysicist and award-winning publisher Ray Jayawardhana requires us on a thrilling journey into the shadowy world of neutrinos and the colourful lives of those who run after them. Demystifying particle technology on the way, Jayawardhana explains to a detectivestory with cosmic implications - interweaving the tales of the irascible Casanova Wolfgang Pauli; the troubled genius Ettore Majorana, who disappeared without a track; and Bruno Pontecorvo, whose defection to the Soviet Union brought on a Cold Battle ruckus. In the long run, Jayawardhana reveals precisely how significant these fast-moving debris are to the world we live in and why another decade of neutrino hunting will redefine how exactly we think about physics, cosmology, and our lives on the planet.
