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    Neutrinos through you

    See how many solar neutrinos pass through a thumbnail, a hand, a phone or your body, and how few of them ever hit anything.

    What the neutrinos pass through
    Over how long
    70 kg
    PASS THROUGH A HAND6.5 trillion
    COLLISIONS WITH ELECTRONS IN YOUR BODY1.6 × 10⁻⁶

    In one second, about 6.5 trillion solar neutrinos pass through a hand, 100 square centimeters. Over the same time, about 1.6 × 10⁻⁶ of them bounce off an electron somewhere in a 70-kilogram body.

    COLLIDEPASS THROUGH10⁻⁵110⁵10¹⁰10¹⁵10²⁰10²⁵NUMBER (LOG SCALE)

    FLUX · 6.5 × 10¹⁰ per cm² per s · COMPUTED: calc/through-you.ts, calc/body-interactions.ts

    The physics, the assumptions behind this tool and the sources are explained in Ghost particles: the neutrinos passing through you right now.

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