India To Build Neutrino Observatory

TeriMaKiChooth writes "Only the fifth in the world, the facility is being called one of the biggest and most ambitious scientific projects ever undertaken by India. About 90 scientists from 26 organizations will be involved in the Indian Neutrino Observatory (INO), organizers say. Neutrinos are elusive, nearly mass-less elementary particles, sometimes called 'ghost particles.'"

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Re:Just what India needs

[Lord Byron II]

As a physicist, let me say that neutrino detection, while interesting and challenging, should definitely take a back seat to some of the poverty and sanitation issues facing India. If this was research that offered immediate benefits to the country (like a new medicine), then I could understand it. But as much as I would love to see more neutrino detectors built, I can't justify it being done with money that could be put to such a better use.