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New IceCube detection proves 60-year-old theory – EurekAlert
Normally, electron antineutrino would zip right through the Earth at the speed of light as if it weren’t even there. But this particle just so happened to smash…
IMAGE: A visualization of the Glashow resonance event detected by IceCube. The event was nicknamed “Hydrangea. ”
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Credit: IceCube Collaboration
On December 6, 2016, a high-energy particle called an electron antineutrino was hurtling through space at nearly the speed of light. Normally, the ghostly particle would zip right through the Earth as if it weren’t even there.
But this particle just so happened to smash into an electron deep inside the South Pole’s glacial ice. The collision created…
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