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Ghost Particles From the Sun Pass Through You

Name: Ghost Particles From the Sun Pass Through You
Uploaded: 2026-06-01
Duration: 1 min 11 s
Channel: Rick Wood
Description: Solar neutrinos escape directly from fusion reactions and reveal the core in near real time.

The Sun’s core reaches you at night through particles that cross Earth almost untouched.

1:11Published June 1, 2026Hosted by Rick Wood

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What you’ll discover

Why neutrinos escape the core immediately
How detectors catch particles that rarely interact
How oscillation solved the solar-neutrino problem

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