# Nobel Prize for Physics: Ghost Particles Hunter! **URL:** \ **Category:** Scuttlebutt\ **Created:** [October 11, 2026, 3:00am UTC](https://forum.gcaptain.com/t/nobel-prize-for-physics-ghost-particles-hunter/77823 "2026-10-11T03:00:14Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 5\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Sand\_Pebble](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/c2a13f/32.png) [@Sand\_Pebble](https://forum.gcaptain.com/u/Sand_Pebble)\ **Post date:** [October 11, 2026, 3:00am UTC](https://forum.gcaptain.com/t/nobel-prize-for-physics-ghost-particles-hunter/77823/1 "2026-10-11T03:00:14Z")
For my fellow nerds & those curious about our universe & reality. Apparently we have trillions of these ghost particles passing through our bodies ever second & Francis Halzen is on to them. Atoms & matter are cool, but whats out there besides matter & ideas? > **[Ghost-particle hunter wins physics prize](https://jamaica-gleaner.com/article/world-news/20261010/ghost-particle-hunter-wins-physics-prize)** > > STOCKHOLM (AP): Belgian-born scientist Francis Halzen won the Nobel Prize in physics Tuesday for his efforts to demystify a rare group of neutrinos, tiny cosmic particles that researchers believe offer clues to how the universe evolved. Halzen said... ---
**Author:** ![Sand\_Pebble](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/c2a13f/32.png) [@Sand\_Pebble](https://forum.gcaptain.com/u/Sand_Pebble)\ **Post date:** [October 11, 2026, 3:16am UTC](https://forum.gcaptain.com/t/nobel-prize-for-physics-ghost-particles-hunter/77823/2 "2026-10-11T03:16:12Z")
First time since 1992 that the physics prize was awarded to a single recipient. * * * From the article: “Notably, this is the first time since 1992 that the physics prize has gone to a lone recipient—it is usually divided among two or three.” > **[Francis Halzen and the anatomy of a solo Nobel Prize](https://www.aip.org/history/halzen-solo-nobel)** > > AIP History Weekly Edition: October 9, 2026 ---
**Author:** ![Sand\_Pebble](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/c2a13f/32.png) [@Sand\_Pebble](https://forum.gcaptain.com/u/Sand_Pebble)\ **Post date:** [October 12, 2026, 4:00am UTC](https://forum.gcaptain.com/t/nobel-prize-for-physics-ghost-particles-hunter/77823/3 "2026-10-12T04:00:07Z")
More about neutrinos. If an atom was a size of a football stadium, a neutrino would be 10 billionth the size of a grain of sand, if you believe the experts? I read several years ago that neutrinos are so small, just looking at them makes them change directions. A couple years later at a 100,000+ seat football stadium I remembered that fact/theory & wondered if the 80,000 person home field advantage crowd could actually change the outcome of a field goal or extra point to win a game? Supposedly these neutrinos are easy to move & they move very fast? Maybe the control of neutrinos will be an important part of how we move things in the future? Maybe a neutrino turbine or neutrino sail will be the future? > **[How much does a neutrino weigh? | All Things Neutrino](https://neutrinos.fnal.gov/mysteries/mass/#basics)** > > Neutrinos are the lightest of the massive fundamental particles in the Standard Model. We know that neutrinos have mass because we have observed them change from one flavor into another, a process that can happen only if the neutrinos have mass.... ---
**Author:** ![Hogsnort](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/ba8739/32.png) [@Hogsnort](https://forum.gcaptain.com/u/Hogsnort)\ **Post date:** [October 12, 2026, 6:10pm UTC](https://forum.gcaptain.com/t/nobel-prize-for-physics-ghost-particles-hunter/77823/4 "2026-10-12T18:10:41Z")
In the words of the Afro- American spiritual song “ He has got the whole world in his hands”. If you took the entire mass of the earth and compared it to the equivalent mass of a black hole the black hole mass would be as big as a ball bearing 10mm in diameter. ---
**Author:** ![Binbag\_the\_Saylore](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/ccd318/32.png) [@Binbag\_the\_Saylore](https://forum.gcaptain.com/u/Binbag_the_Saylore)\ **Post date:** [October 13, 2026, 11:50am UTC](https://forum.gcaptain.com/t/nobel-prize-for-physics-ghost-particles-hunter/77823/5 "2026-10-13T11:50:11Z")
_ **…IceCubeNeutrino Observatory in Antarctica** _ Good name for a cocktail to celebrate your Prize, bring it on!! # **IceCubeNeutrino** (with Belgian Jenever, of course) ![image](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/flex016/uploads/gcaptain_maritime_forum/original/3X/6/7/67778ab91836f10bb7f9ddb562f51961fdba1e66.jpeg)