The Telescope in the Ice is, ultimately, a book about people and the thrill of the chase: the struggle to understand the neutrino and the pioneers and inventors of neutrino astronomy.

mark the end of a population of galactic cosmic rays. Neutrino physics is perhaps the most active field in particle physics today, and IceCube is at the forefront. Thin Ice: Unlocking the Secrets of Climate in the Worlds Highest Mountains, 2005 978-0805081350 Censoring Science: Inside the Political Attack on Dr. 2008, the IceCube Neutrino Observatory had also started taking data, detect. And since the neutrino is one of the strangest and least understood of the known elementary particles, this is fertile ground. Its scientific goals span not only astrophysics and cosmology but also pure particle physics. IceCube is also the largest particle physics detector ever built. In 2010, it detected the first extraterrestrial high-energy neutrinos and thus gave birth to a new field of astronomy. It employs a cubic kilometer of diamond-clear ice, more than a mile beneath the surface, to detect an elementary particle known as the neutrino.

Amundsen-Scott Research Station at the geographic South Pole, IceCube is unlike most telescopes in that it is not designed to detect light. The Telescope in the Ice: Inventing a New Astronomy at the South Pole Bowen, Mark Published by St. 2018 by Mark Bowen (Author) 16 ratings See all formats and editions Kindle Edition 6.62 Read with Our Free App Hardcover 18.31 5 Used from 15.88 3 New from 46. In The Telescope in the Ice, Mark Bowen tells the amazing story of the people who built the instrument and the science involved. Mark Bowen Telescope in the Ice, The: Inventing a New Astronomy at the South Pole Hardcover 8 Jan. IceCube Observatory, a South Pole instrument making the first actual observations of high-energy neutrinos, has been called the “weirdest” of the seven wonders of modern astronomy by Scientific American.

The Telescope in the Ice by Mark Bowen