Neutrinos

A neutrino is a subatomic particle.  This means that it is smaller than an atom. These tiny particles, we are told, are produced by the same nuclear reactions that power the Sun, other stars, and supernovae.  Nuetrinos are everywhere, they are moving at the speed of light and they seem to be unhindered by mass because they have very little.  This means that they can pass through things like your body.

A neutrino has very little mass and no electric charge.  Literally, the name, "neutrino," means “little neutral one.” They are amazing things in a world of opposites because  they are neither positive nor negative and yet, neutrinos are very much involved in the exchanges that occur between protons and neutrons in nuclear interactions, like the ones that take place in the stars.   Types of neutrinos are identified  in what is called, "flavors," these are electron, muon, and tau; (tau being the heaviest and the smallest.neutrinos that there are.

These things called neutrinos “were discovered” in the 1950’s when observed in a radioactive decay.  Before that, (presumably,) no one knew that they existed.And even thought no one KNEW that they existed, they were there... being neutrinos doing what neutrinos do.

In the quantum realm of science, people have liked to study neutrinos, leptons, glutinos, bosons, sleptons, winos, zinos, fermions, hadrons, squarks and higgsinos not only for the interesting sounds you get to make when you talk about them with your colleagues, but also because they are elusive, somewhat mysterious things. Besides, the scientific community believes that the secrets of the universe lies in these miniscule and elusive particles waiting to be discovered. 

There seems to be a hope in the scientific community that their incredible discoveries about atoms, neutrinoes, dark matter and the like, may lead to even greater discoveries, even the greatest discovery of all… the discovering the true meaning of life, or the discovery of who or what mankind"really" is and where he came from.  The hope is tha tone day, someday, mnkind will at last dicover who and what he really is, maybe even find a way to prolong this thing called life, find cures to the diseases that plagues humanity and even never have to die.

No one really knows where this search into the minuscule world of the tiniest of particles will lead us, but many are hopeful that it will lead us on to greater answers about our origins, and the origin of all life on our planet, even maybe the entire universe.  Perhaps it will lead us into a greater awareness of how powerful we humans really are and in the end we may even get a closer look at the answer to the most pressing question ever, the question that has plagued man since the dawn of time.  That is...who... or what, God is, and isn't.