{"id":15106,"date":"2025-07-05T10:00:00","date_gmt":"2025-07-05T10:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/modernsciences.org\/staging\/4414\/?p=15106"},"modified":"2025-06-27T03:08:44","modified_gmt":"2025-06-27T03:08:44","slug":"km3net-most-energetic-neutrino-discovery-july-2025","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/modernsciences.org\/staging\/4414\/km3net-most-energetic-neutrino-discovery-july-2025\/","title":{"rendered":"Why Physicists Built an Experiment the Size of a Sea"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-embed-aspect-16-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-block-embed-youtube\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"We Turned the Mediterranean Into One Big Particle Physics Experiment\" width=\"1200\" height=\"675\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/QjgchiVfu3c?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"\">Deep beneath the Mediterranean, a revolutionary telescope the size of a sea has detected a particle that should not exist. The KM3NeT experiment, while still under construction, has observed the most energetic neutrino ever recorded\u2014a &#8220;ghost particle&#8221; so powerful it defies current theories. This landmark discovery may be the first sighting of a new type of particle, unlocking a new window into the universe&#8217;s most violent events.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Deep beneath the Mediterranean, a massive neutrino detector has captured a particle so energetic it could rewrite our fundamental understanding of the cosmos.\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":15109,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"video","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/images.unsplash.com\/photo-1617532770043-3c7d49fe43d4?q=80&w=1170&auto=format&fit=crop&ixlib=rb-4.1.0&ixid=M3wxMjA3fDB8MHxwaG90by1wYWdlfHx8fGVufDB8fHx8fA%3D%3D","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[17,15],"tags":[13728,633,4795,1758,13721,1180,13719,13716,13723,13715,13727,13718,13717,399,13731,13720,13730,855,13732,13726,628,13729,341,13724,13714,13725,13722,189],"class_list":{"0":"post-15106","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-video","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-math-and-the-sciences","8":"category-engineering","9":"tag-antares","10":"tag-astrophysics","11":"tag-cherenkov-radiation","12":"tag-cosmic-microwave-background","13":"tag-cosmogenic-neutrino","14":"tag-cosmology","15":"tag-deep-sea-experiment","16":"tag-ghost-particle","17":"tag-global-neutrino-network","18":"tag-high-energy-physics","19":"tag-icecube","20":"tag-kilometre-cube-neutrino-telescope","21":"tag-km3net","22":"tag-large-hadron-collider","23":"tag-mediterranean-sea","24":"tag-most-energetic-neutrino","25":"tag-muon","26":"tag-neutrino","27":"tag-neutrino-astronomy","28":"tag-neutrino-detector","29":"tag-particle-physics","30":"tag-physics-discovery","31":"tag-scishow","32":"tag-standard-model-of-particle-physics","33":"tag-subatomic-particles","34":"tag-super-k","35":"tag-underwater-telescope","36":"tag-youtube","37":"post_format-post-format-video","38":"cs-entry","39":"cs-video-wrap"},"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/modernsciences.org\/staging\/4414\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15106","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/modernsciences.org\/staging\/4414\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/modernsciences.org\/staging\/4414\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/modernsciences.org\/staging\/4414\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/modernsciences.org\/staging\/4414\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=15106"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/modernsciences.org\/staging\/4414\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15106\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":15108,"href":"https:\/\/modernsciences.org\/staging\/4414\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15106\/revisions\/15108"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/modernsciences.org\/staging\/4414\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/15109"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/modernsciences.org\/staging\/4414\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15106"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/modernsciences.org\/staging\/4414\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=15106"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/modernsciences.org\/staging\/4414\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=15106"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}