The Neutrino Nobody Looked For, and the Protein Nobody Could See Properly Until VR Changed the Viewing Angle
The Neutrino Nobody Looked For, and the Protein Nobody Could See Properly Until VR Changed the Viewing Angle The particle physics community spent decades building detectors the size of office buildings to catch neutrinos — particles so indifferent to matter that a trillion pass through your thumbnail every second. In 2012, a Fermilab team announced they'd spotted a signal in a disused detector: a type of neutrino interaction nobody had designed the experiment to see. The lesson landed hard in m…