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Welcome to the Scientific American Podcast Science Talk posted on May 23rd, 2014. I'm Steve Merski. On this episode,

they are connected to such a wide range of phenomena from the subatomic to the cosmic

that they could tell us a lot about the nature of matter, about what triggers exploding stars,

to what the universe might have been like,

the conditions within seconds after the Big Bang.

That's Ray Jiridana.

He's a professor in observational astrophysics at the University of Toronto.

He's also an award-winning writer.

And his latest book is called Neutrino Hunters,

The Thrilling Chase for a Ghostly Particle to Unlock the Secrets of the Universe.

He was in New York recently and dropped by Scientific American.

So I'm reading your book.

I'm in about chapter 3 and I say, hey, this book sort of reminds me of microbe hunters.

Oh, yeah?

And I look at the title and said and did microbe hunters inspire you?

Actually, no.

It didn't.

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