{"id":12659,"date":"2023-06-30T09:48:21","date_gmt":"2023-06-30T04:18:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/?p=12659"},"modified":"2025-04-01T20:39:40","modified_gmt":"2025-04-01T15:09:40","slug":"what-are-ghost-particles","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/what-are-ghost-particles\/","title":{"rendered":"What are Ghost Particles?"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2><strong>About Ghost Particles:<\/strong><\/h2>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Neutrinos are <strong>tiny subatomic particles<\/strong>, often <strong>called &#8216;ghost particles&#8217;<\/strong> because <strong>they barely interact with anything else.\u00a0<\/strong><\/li>\n<li><strong>Source<\/strong>: Neutrinos come from all kinds of different sources and are <strong>often the product of heavy particles turning into lighter ones, a process called \u201cdecay.\u201d<\/strong><\/li>\n<li>Neutrinos are <strong>denoted by the Greek symbol \u03bd, or nu<\/strong> (pronounced \u201cnew\u201d).<\/li>\n<li>They <strong>belong to the family of particles known as leptons<\/strong>. There are three main leptons, namely electrons, muons and tau particles, and each one has an associated neutrino and anti-neutrino.<\/li>\n<li>A neutrino is <strong>very similar to an electron<\/strong>, but has <strong>no electrical charge<\/strong> and <strong>a very small mass.<\/strong><\/li>\n<li>They are the <strong>most common particle in the universe<\/strong>. Approximately 100 trillion neutrinos pass completely harmlessly through our body every second.<\/li>\n<li>They are <strong>extraordinarily difficult to detect, as they rarely collide with atoms<\/strong>.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Of the four fundamental forces in the universe<\/strong>, <strong>neutrinos only interact with two \u2014 gravity and the weak force.<\/strong><\/li>\n<li>But <strong>not all neutrinos are the same<\/strong>. They <strong>come in different types<\/strong> and can be thought of in terms of flavors, masses, and energies.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<h3>What is Antiparticle?<\/h3>\n<ul>\n<li>In quantum theory, <strong>every<\/strong> <strong>type of particle is associated with an antiparticle with the same mass but with opposite physical charges.<\/strong> For example, the antiparticle of the electron is the positron.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<h3>Q1)\u00a0What is Antiparticle?<\/h3>\n<p>In quantum theory, every type of particle is associated with an antiparticle with the same mass but with opposite physical charges. For example, the antiparticle of the electron is the positron.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Source:<\/strong>\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.independent.co.uk\/space\/neutrino-ghost-particle-galaxy-milky-way-b2366654.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\"><u>Scientists finally see \u2018ghost particles\u2019 that surround us throughout the Milky Way<\/u><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Neutrinos are tiny subatomic particles, often called &#8216;ghost particles&#8217; because they barely interact with anything else.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":12660,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-12659","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-upsc-prelims-current-affairs","8":"no-featured-image-padding"},"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12659","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=12659"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12659\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/12660"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12659"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12659"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12659"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}