$300M underground lab in China aims to solve mysteries in universe

The Manila Times

$300M underground lab in China aims to solve mysteries in universe  China is finishing construction on its $300 million physics research facility located 700 meters underground in rural Guangdong province. The Jiangmen Underground Neutrino Observatory (JUNO) has been under construction for 10 years, and in a few months will be sealed off for the next 30 years as it runs experiments and collects data. JUNO aims to determine which types of neutrinos, which are tiny subatomic particles, have the greatest mass. Neutrinos can pass through normal objects unimpeded and undetected, making them incredibly difficult to research. About 100 trillion neutrinos pass through the human body every second, according to IceCube Neutrino Observatory research facility at the South Pole in Antartica.  REUTERS VIDEO  Subscribe to The Manila Times Channel - https://tmt.ph/YTSubscribe  Visit our website at https://www.manilatimes.net    Follow us:  Facebook - https://tmt.ph/facebook  Instagram - https://tmt.ph/instagram  Twitter - https://tmt.ph/twitter  DailyMotion - https://tmt.ph/dailymotion    Subscribe to our Digital Edition - https://tmt.ph/digital    Check out our Podcasts:  Spotify - https://tmt.ph/spotify  Apple Podcasts - https://tmt.ph/applepodcasts  Amazon Music - https://tmt.ph/amazonmusic  Deezer: https://tmt.ph/deezer  Tune In: https://tmt.ph/tunein   #TheManilaTimes  #worldnews  #underground  #mystery  #universe

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00:00One neutrino can change to another neutrino at a flight.

00:13So such a special property may have a big impact to how nature works and how the universe

00:25evolves.

00:26So we don't know the answer yet.

00:29That's why we need to experiment to measure the property of the neutrino and get the answer

00:36of the fundamental rules of our nature.

00:39So we have started the construction about 10 years ago and we spent a lot of time on

00:44the civil construction and now we finally approached the end of the construction and

00:50we plan to formally start the data taking next year.

00:57And in six years we will get some answer on our primary goal to measure the neutrino

01:02mass ordering and we plan to run this experiment for 30 years.

01:08From basic research to application there are quite a distance.

01:12We need several steps.

01:14It may be not useful and even if it's useful it may take a long time.

01:19So that's not our primary goal for application but it may have some application.

01:27The one in the U.S. will be six years behind us and the one in France and Japan will be

01:36two or three years later than us.

01:39So we believe that we can get the result of mass hierarchy ahead of everybody.

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