The Telescope in the Ice: Inventing a New Astronomy at the South Pole
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| Rating | : | 4.78 (817 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 1137280085 |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 432 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2016-01-20 |
| Language | : | English |
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In The Telescope in the Ice, Mark Bowen tells the amazing story of the people who built the instrument and the science involved.Located near the U. S. 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. Its scientific goals span not only astrophysics and cosmology but also pure particle physics. And since the neutrino is one of the strangest and least understood of the known elementary particles, this is fertile ground. In 2010, it detected the first extraterrestrial high-energy neutrinos and thus gave birth to a new field of astronomy.IceCube is also the largest particle physics detector ever built. Amundsen-Scott Research Station at the geographic South Pole, IceCube is unlike most telescopes in that it is not designed to detect light. It is a success story.. Neutrino physics is perhaps the most active field in particle physics today, and IceCube is at the forefront.The Telescope in
. Bowen has written for Climbing, Natural History, Science, Technology Review, and AMC Outdoors. MARK BOWEN is a writer, physicist. He lives in Vermont. The Telescope in the Ice is his third book. He earned a bachelor’s degree and a doctorate in physics at MIT and worked for a decade in the medical industry. He has been embedded in
Bowen reports from the inside on the decades long struggle to record cosmic neutrinos, and not only do we see it finally realized, but with neutrinos once again not behaving as expected, pointing to new mysteries of the cosmos. I know of no other book that does such a wonderful job describing the fun, creativity, and resourcefulness required to do great experimental science." Katherine Freese, George E. Having been a losing player in this long science game, my hat is off to the tough team who have pulled off one of the great physics experiments of all time.” John G. "What a wonderful, ever-surprising book. Whether describing the tiny, speedy, ubiquitous neutrino (billions of which just passed through your eyes), the astro-mechanics of a radiant star, the fathomless difficulties of deep-ice drilling