{"id":95124,"date":"2019-08-22T11:42:37","date_gmt":"2019-08-22T18:42:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2019\/08\/scientists-just-used-the-cosmos-to-measure-the-mass-of-a-ghost-particle"},"modified":"2019-08-22T11:42:37","modified_gmt":"2019-08-22T18:42:37","slug":"scientists-just-used-the-cosmos-to-measure-the-mass-of-a-ghost-particle","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2019\/08\/scientists-just-used-the-cosmos-to-measure-the-mass-of-a-ghost-particle","title":{"rendered":"Scientists Just Used The Cosmos to Measure The Mass of a Ghost Particle"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/scientists-just-used-the-cosmos-to-measure-the-mass-of-a-ghost-particle2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>How do you weigh a ghost? If you\u2019re a cosmologist, you could use\u2026 the Universe. Combine vast cosmological data with info from particle accelerators, and, it turns out, you have a pretty good scale for measuring the mass of a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sciencealert.com\/neutrinos\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"neutrino\">neutrino<\/a> \u2014 also known as the \u2018ghost particle\u2019. <em><\/em><\/p>\n<p>This is how a team of scientists, for the first time, have set an upper limit on the mass of the lightest of the three different types of neutrino.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.sciencealert.com\/neutrinos\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"Neutrinos\">Neutrinos<\/a> are peculiar little things. They are among the most abundant subatomic particles in the Universe, similar to electrons, but without a charge and almost massless. This means they interact very rarely with normal matter; in fact, billions are passing through your body right now.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>How do you weigh a ghost? If you\u2019re a cosmologist, you could use\u2026 the Universe. Combine vast cosmological data with info from particle accelerators, and, it turns out, you have a pretty good scale for measuring the mass of a neutrino \u2014 also known as the \u2018ghost particle\u2019. This is how a team of scientists, [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":367,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[48,8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-95124","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-particle-physics","category-space"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/95124","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\/367"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=95124"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/95124\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=95124"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=95124"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=95124"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}