Wed Oct 14 · 6:30pm
Lectures on Tap — Neutrinos: The Origin of Everything?
Joseph Howlett, a senior reporter at Scientific American who spent a decade as a particle physicist at Columbia and Stanford, describes the DUNE experiment, the largest underground science project attempted in the United States. Its $5 billion “tin-can telephone” runs from Chicago to a detector in a former gold mine beneath South Dakota’s Black Hills, built to catch neutrinos that may explain why matter exists at all.