Shape shifting particles; underground labs; QLD’s forgotten Nobel Prize winner; and more
Sunday 4 December 2016
- Highlights from Day 1 of the Physics Congress
- Australian and international researchers available for interview throughout the week
- For more highlights, and daily updates visit www.scienceinpublic.com.au/physicscongress
Our neutrino world – explained by 2015 Nobel Prize winner Professor Takaaki Kajita
We live in a world of neutrinos. Thousands of billions of neutrinos—mostly created by the Sun—are flowing through your body every second. You cannot see them and you do not feel them. So how did we discover they have mass, and why does that challenge our standard model of the Universe?
Professor Kajita will give a public lecture, telling the story of shape-shifting particles and underground super-labs on Monday night hosted by Australian physicist Hans Bachor (ANU), with early career astrophysicist Tamara Davis (UQ) and neutrino physicist Yvonne Wong (UNSW). Read More about Shape shifting particles; underground labs; QLD’s forgotten Nobel Prize winner; and more