“Eight solid light-years of lead…is the thickness of that metal in which you would need to encase yourself if you wanted to keep from being touched by neutrinos. I guess the little fuckers are everywhere.”

— Michael Chabon , book Wonder Boys

Wonder Boys (1995)

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