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Underwater “Ghost Particle” Detector
October 28 , 2023
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- China is building an enormous telescope in the western Pacific Ocean.
- Its job will be to detect “ghost particles”, also known as neutrinos.
- The telescope will be the largest of its kind.
- Neutrinos are a type of electron but, like neutrons, they do not have any charge.
- Ghost particles rarely interact with other particles.
- Sometimes they interact with water molecules, which is why China is building its ghost molecule telescope underwater.
- Right now, the largest neutrino-detecting telescope is the University of Madison-Wisconson’s “IceCube” telescope, situated deep in the Antarctic.
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