Super-Kam, as it is known, uses 50,000 tons of water to capture neutrino collisions, leading to some interesting speculation. Young, interviewed by e-mail as he sat in the lab far beneath the steep, wooded mountains, says the number of neutrinos coming from the sun is far lower than it should be. Maybe they emerge as a different type of neutrino, undetectable by Super-Kam. If so, then the mysterious neutrino is even more baffling than scientists had imagined. It would be neat if all the research just answered one key question.
Many scientists believe the neutrino has no mass at all.
Given enough mass, neutrinos could answer one of the most perplexing questions in all of science. Maybe, some believe, if it has just a tiny bit of mass, it is the neutrino, individually insignificant, but collectively magnificent.