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Chasing the ghost particle | Dirk Ryckbosch | TEDxGhent

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Channel: TEDx Talks · 2014 · Nonprofits & Activism

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This talk was given at a local TEDx event, produced independently of the TED Conferences. The IceCube neutrino telescope at the South Pole: chasing the ghost particle

Dirk Ryckbosch will introduce us to the fascinating field of neutrinos. Which is – to be honest – pretty difficult. Thanks to the discovery of these ‘ghost particles’ (they can move through almost everything but that also makes them really hard to find) and the IceCube project, we can really learn something new about the universe. Dirk Ryckbosch will take us with him on his chase for this extra-terrestrial particles and tell us what they could mean not only for physics, but also for our understanding of the universe as we know it.

Dirk Ryckbosch is a Belgian professor in particle physics and since 2006 he’s been the chair of the Department of Physics and Astronomy

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