The DUNE Project
Published on Oct 25, 2024, 11:00:00 PM
Total time: 01:22:34
Published on Oct 25, 2024, 11:00:00 PM
Total time: 01:22:34
Today's True Weird Stuff - The DUNE Project
Neutrinos are tiny, fundamental particles that may contain a key to better understanding the universe. Roughly a thousand trillion of these mysterious particles harmlessly pass through your body every second. In order to better understand them, scientists shoot an intense beam of neutrinos from a facility in Illinois to an underground detector 1,300 kilometers away in South Dakota. They call it The DUNE Project.
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