Philosophy Wire: Detecting light. Being humans.

Particle physicists are on the hunt for light. Not just any light, but a characteristic signal produced by the interaction of certain particles - like ghostly neutrinos, which are neutral fundamental particles with very low mass - with a detector that contains an atomic sea of liquefied noble gases. [1] Detecting particles with the help of particles. Because only the similar can interact with the similar. Humans detecting other humans. Watching the stars. Looking at the sky. Diving deep in the ocean. Only because we are the stars. Only because we are the sky. Only because we are the ocean itself. We like speaking about the universe. But what we never realized is that the universe does nothing but speaking for us…

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