The Telescope in the Ice: Inventing a New Astronomy at the South Pole
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| Rating | : | 4.43 (650 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 1137280085 |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 432 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2014-10-31 |
| Language | : | English |
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. He lives in Vermont. MARK BOWEN is a writer, physicist. 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 AMANDA and IceCube since 1998. Bowen has written for Climbing, Natural History, Science, Technology Review, and AMC Outdoors
This book is priceless." David Dobbs, Author of Reef Madness: Alexander Agassiz, Charles Darwin, and the Meaning of Coral (Pantheon, 2005) and contributor toThe Atlantic, National Geographic, Nature, and other publications“This is a major work in many ways, I think, not only a compelling tale, a humane science history, but an inspiring picture of how great science gets done (or not). 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, or the unbelieving wonder of the three researchers in the Stitch-and-Bitch knitting club w
The IceCube Observatory has been called the “weirdest” of the seven wonders of modern astronomy by Scientific American. 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. 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. Its scientific goals span not only astrophysics and cosmology but also pure particle physics. Neutrino physics is perhaps the most active field in particle physics today, and IceCube is at the forefront.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. S. It is a success story.. And since the neutrino is one of the strangest and least understood of the known elementary particles, this is fertile ground. Amundsen-Scott Research Station at the geographic South Pole, IceCube is unlike most telescopes in that it is not designed to detect light. 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