{"id":211152,"date":"2025-04-11T01:27:26","date_gmt":"2025-04-11T06:27:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2025\/04\/new-experiment-halves-weight-limit-of-elusive-neutrinos"},"modified":"2025-04-11T01:27:26","modified_gmt":"2025-04-11T06:27:26","slug":"new-experiment-halves-weight-limit-of-elusive-neutrinos","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2025\/04\/new-experiment-halves-weight-limit-of-elusive-neutrinos","title":{"rendered":"New experiment halves weight limit of elusive neutrinos"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/new-experiment-halves-weight-limit-of-elusive-neutrinos2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Scientists trying to discover the elusive mass of neutrinos, tiny \u201cghost particles\u201d that could solve some of the universe\u2019s biggest mysteries, announced a new limit on Thursday for how much they could weigh, halving the previous estimate.<\/p>\n<p>Since the existence of <a href=\"https:\/\/phys.org\/tags\/neutrinos\/\" rel=\"tag\" class=\"\">neutrinos<\/a> was proposed nearly a century ago, scientists around the world have struggled to learn much about them\u2014particularly their mass.<\/p>\n<p>This is important because the neutrino, as the most abundant particle in the universe, \u201cweaves a thread that connects the infinitely small and the infinitely large,\u201d Thierry Lasserre, a physicist at France\u2019s Alternative Energies and Atomic Energy Commission, told AFP.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Scientists trying to discover the elusive mass of neutrinos, tiny \u201cghost particles\u201d that could solve some of the universe\u2019s biggest mysteries, announced a new limit on Thursday for how much they could weigh, halving the previous estimate. Since the existence of neutrinos was proposed nearly a century ago, scientists around the world have struggled to [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":427,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[48],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-211152","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-particle-physics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/211152","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/427"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=211152"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/211152\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=211152"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=211152"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=211152"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}