Neutrinos are tiny particles. Many, many, many neutrinos were released about two seconds after God started creating the universe. (That’s two seconds on the human scale of time.) Those same neutrinos, the ones from so early in the history of the universe, are still hanging around, undisturbed and unchanged. There are about a billion of them for every atom in the universe! But, even though there are so very many of them, we haven’t seen any yet! We know that they are all around us, but they are so difficult for physicists to detect that we haven’t even seen one.
We have seen that there are some younger neutrinos in the core of the sun. Also, some young ones were sent to earth when a far away star exploded 200,000 years ago. We’ve seen neutrinos, just not the oldest ones.
Neutrinos initially (during the first two seconds of the history of the universe) were captured and bound up with other particles. Then, the universe cooled enough that neutrinos were released from their bonds. They are, essentially, by-products of the creation of everying else, including you and me.
The experiments which scientists would have to do in order to see these oldest neutrinos - this specific photo of Creation - are unimaginably difficult. If we had the right technology and the necessary amount of space, time, energy and money, we might be able to see one, eventually. Humans can, hypothetically, see back to the first moments in the history of the universe!
Isn’t that cool?
We can see far back in time when we look through the biggest telecopes to see stars and other light-giving objects created early in the universe. But the oldest neutrinos are everywhere, 200 of them for every cubic centimeter of space. I like that, because it means that evidence of the first moments of Creation is literally everywhere.
The typical Christian thinks of Creation as having happened in the far distant past, something which can no longer by seen by short-lived beings like humans. But that’s just not true!
Isn’t that cool?
