{"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 \u201cghost particle\u201d 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\u2019s 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}]}}