{"id":12005,"date":"2015-06-03T20:40:11","date_gmt":"2015-06-03T20:40:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/yaabot.com\/?p=12005"},"modified":"2024-02-22T11:31:29","modified_gmt":"2024-02-22T06:01:29","slug":"50-billion-neutrinos-pass-through-your-body-every-second","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/entropymag.co\/50-billion-neutrinos-pass-through-your-body-every-second\/","title":{"rendered":"Exploring the Mystery of Neutrinos: Invisible Particles in Our World"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
There are fifty billion neutrinos passing through your body every second. Which means about 300 billion will have gone through you by the time you finish reading this sentence. What are neutrinos? And why must they go through you in the first place? Let’s delve deeper.<\/span><\/p>\n\n\n\n Neutrinos are subatomic particles. They have near-zero (but not zero) mass – allowing them to travel at nearly the speed of light. With no inherent charge on them, they’re basically neutral particles just zipping through space, racing with photons. Neutrinos actually ‘little neutral particles’.<\/span><\/p>\n\n\n\n But why must they pass through you? Or anyone else? Photons hit solid objects and come to a halt. What makes neutrinos unstoppable? The answer lies in understanding the fundamental forces of the universe. There are four of them – Gravity, Electromagnetism, the Strong Nuclear Force and Weak Nuclear Force. Neutrinos are invisible to the first three forces, and are\u00a0only affected by weak sub-atomic forces. Since they don’t interact via any of these other forces, it allows them to pass through other objects (like the world around us) unscathed.\u00a0A large number of these subatomic particles<\/span> pass through everything on the planet and still travel unhindered because of this property.<\/span><\/p>\n\n\n\n Neutrinos are formed in different ways: Solar neutrinos are formed by all the fusion reactions taking place in the core of our Sun. The Sun produces an enormous<\/em> number of neutrinos. In the order of 10<\/span>38<\/sup><\/span> neutrinos per second.<\/span>. A fraction of that – 50 billion, get to pass through your body every second. The Sun is where they’re all coming from. <\/span><\/p>\n\n\n\n These subatomic particles<\/span> are also formed in neutron decay, beta decay, also during certain other decay processes and are formed during certain radioactive reactions.<\/span><\/p>\n\n\nWhere do Neutrinos come from?<\/span><\/h2>\n\n\n\n