Here is my contribution
to astophysics: "The smallest
particles behave the most
impolitely." The sun blasts out
neutrinos that slip through Earth
as if it weren't here-and-there,
and a hundred billion of them
pass through our bodies
every second--without even asking
us and our other particles
how we're feeling. Rude.
There went another 100 billion
of them right through me like
arrows of light!" I want to shout,
"Hey, neutrinos, slow down!" But
I suspect that they would not respond.
particles behave the most
impolitely." The sun blasts out
neutrinos that slip through Earth
as if it weren't here-and-there,
and a hundred billion of them
pass through our bodies
every second--without even asking
us and our other particles
how we're feeling. Rude.
There went another 100 billion
of them right through me like
arrows of light!" I want to shout,
"Hey, neutrinos, slow down!" But
I suspect that they would not respond.
hans ostrom 2025
Photo courtesy of Discover Magazine, which calls neutrinos "the ghost particles of the universe.
