• spacecadet@lemm.ee
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    9 months ago

    "They can tell us about deep space in ways we can't learn otherwise," says particle physicist Jamie Boyd of CERN. "These very high-energy neutrinos in the LHC are important for understanding really exciting observations in particle astrophysics."

    Can anyone who knows more about this subject elaborate? What are they expecting to learn, or do we not have an idea yet? Like what different things could we learn from this that we aren’t learning from other possible colliders or deep space telescopes like James Webb?

    Edit: why am I being downvoted for asking questions in a science sub? As a non-physicist who is trying to learn more that seems unwelcoming

    • Lmaydev@programming.dev
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      9 months ago

      Light gets blocked by matter. Neutrinos are hardly affected by it. It will allow us to see things that were previously impossible to see.