trillion neutrinos passing through the human body every second or so. If we could detect … trillions of trillions of neutrinos pass¬ ing through the Earth every second we would expect … the literally billions of stars that make up our galaxy and the billions of galaxies that

Through a century of work, physicists have refined a model to describe all fundamental particles, the forces they share, and their interactions on a microscopic scale. This masterpiece of science is called the Standard Model. While this theory is incredibly powerful, we know of at least one particle that exhibits behaviors that are outside of its scope and remain unexplained. These particles are called neutrinos and they are the enigmatic ghosts of the quantum world. Interacting only via the weak nuclear force, literally billions of them pass through you undetected every second. While we under