When footballers in North America currently try to shoot balls into goals, they naturally trust that they will land in the net and not fly through. If you shoot grains of dust at a soccer goal instead of balls, this is no longer to be expected. If you also assume that these dust grains were accelerated not with the energy of a trained athlete’s leg, but with that of a moving truck, you get an idea of the situation that experts are confronted with when researching neutrinos.
