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Dr. Christian Spiering reads from "The strangest particle in the world. On the hunt for the neutrino"

A stolen physicist and a missing researcher: the exciting hunt for the neutrino, told in seven portraits through time
If the world of physical particles were to award a prize for mysteriousness, it would go to the neutrino. As you read this text, trillions of neutrinos are flying unnoticed through your body. The "ghost particles" are a key to understanding the universe. But how do you catch something that doesn't want to be caught? Christian Spiering is an internationally renowned neutrino researcher. Here he tells
the exciting story of a 100-year hunt that has taken physicists to the South Pole, deep underground, between the fronts of the Cold War and often to the brink of despair - from Lise Meitner and Wolfgang Pauli right up to the present day. As understandable and exciting as a science thriller.