With the current craze over neutrino oscillations -- J-PARC, CERN's OPERA, and countless other scientists flocking around this subject like teenage girls over the next Twilight movie -- one has to wonder what's so important about these studies. They are written in a language so inscrutably scientific as to make them impenetrable to the layman with scant knowledge of physics. The ramifications of this research, therefore, remain a mystery.
So what exactly has got these brainmen so stirred up? What could you make of these oscillating neutrinos? A cancer cure? A sub-atomic bomb? A new method of space travel through wormholes?
Why are these little spinny things getting so much attention, and what can they really do for the common man and woman?