Inventing Neutrinos

　　"It was in this heady atmosphere that the neutrino was invented, or willed into existence, in a form of scientific witchcraft to dodge a growing crisis in nuclear physics, long before the presence of such a particle was detected through experiments. When scientists couldn’t account for energy that went missing during radioactive beta decay, one theorist found it necessary to “invent” a new particle to account for the missing energy. The man behind the theoretical wizardry was a brash young physicist by the name of Wolfgang Pauli. "