ニューヨーク・タイムズのインスタグラム(nytimes) - 7月17日 22時14分

Deep in a mountain in southern Russia, in a small town called Neytrino, scientists are tracking one of the universe’s most elusive particles. For the last half-century, Neytrino’s main business has been the study of the tiniest insubstantial bit of matter in the universe, an ephemeral fly-by-night subatomic particle called the #neutrino. Last year, @maksimbabenko photographed this lab at the Baksan Neutrino Observatory, which is hidden underneath 12,000 feet of rock. Inside, vats of liquid wait to record the flight of neutrinos from the center of the sun, from exploding stars, atomic reactors and the Big Bang itself, carrying messages through time. “Neutrinos are the ghost riders of the cosmos, mostly impervious to the forces, like electromagnetism, with which other denizens of nature interact,” explains our reporter Dennis Overbye, who’s been covering the universe for more than 3 decades. “Neutrinos cruise unmolested through rocks, the earth and even our bodies. In the words of a famous poem by John Updike, they ‘insult the stallion in his stall.’” The people working at Baksan share an underground union with scientists scattered around the world in equally deep places — in South Dakota, Ontario, Italy, Japan and at the South Pole. All of them are trying to listen to quantum whispers about the nature of reality. Visit the link in our profile to see more.

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