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At Long Last: IceCube Spots 28 High-Energy Neutrinos
Wired reports that IceCube, the detection facility built just to detect such things, has seen just what it was looking for, even though the researchers involved didn't know it at the time. High-energy neutrinos, the target that IceCube was seeking, weren't showing up as had been hoped, but it turns out that there were quite a few (nearly 30 already, with 2013's data still being recorded) in the three years that the detector has been operating — they just weren't obvious until the data was combed for it. "Most of the 28 high-energy neutrinos so far detected originate from parts of the night sky that don’t include the Milky Way, making it quite likely that they are arriving from a distant source. There are still too few neutrinos to make any specific conclusions about AGNs or gamma-ray bursts, but the IceCube team will continue gathering new data."
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At first I thought these rappers had more on the ball than met the ear.
Some of the facilities built for detecting particles are pretty fascinating, including one in northern Arizona, where the water is so pure it will corrode a screwdriver to iron oxide within a few days.
Very cool (no pun intended) observatory. Has it been in James Bond, yet?
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Ive Cube? Pssssh. What has Ice T spotted?
The quality of Slashdot has deteriorated for quite some time now...
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At Long Last: IceCube Spots 28 High-Energy Neutrinos
Wired reports that IceCube, the detection facility built just to detect such things, has seen just what it was looking for, even though the researchers involved didn't knot it at the time. High-energy neutrinos, the target that IceCube was seeking, weren't showing up as had been hoped, but it turns out that there were quite a few (nearly 30 already, with 2013's data still being recorded) in the three years that the detector has been operating — they just weren't obvious until the data was combed for it. "Most of the 28 high-energy neutrinos so far detected originate from parts of the night sky that don’t include the Milky Way, making it quite likely that they are arriving from a distant source. There are still too few neutrinos to make any specific conclusions about AGNs or gamma-ray bursts, but the IceCube team will continue gathering new data."
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At Least 28 High-Energy Neutrinos Detected by IceCube
From Wired ( http://www.wired.com/wiredscience/2013/11/icecube-neutrinos-detected/ )
The high-energy neutrino detector IceCube ( http://icecube.wisc.edu/ ) has detected at least 28 high-energy neutrinos in the past 3 years. Until recently, this number was thought to be zero.
The quote from an unknown person is useless because it doesn't tell us what high-energy neutrinos are, why they didn't know about the 28 detections until now, or what AGNs are.
... undeniable evidence that Earth is 6,000 years old and Noah had baby dinosaurs on the Ark.
Trolling is a art,
Nice to see another big science project providing results. The data from all these recent big experiments should be quite helpful in winnowing out some theories. It looks some supersymmetry theories appear inconsistent with the data being seen. Things seem to be resolving towards the standard model, and yet it has problems. Interesting times ahead I'm sure.
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I bet Brian May could help Icecube. They should collaborate.
I hope Howard, Leonard, and Rajesh didn't just mess up Sheldon's experiment...
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You'd have thought someone would've thought to check the results?
Anyway, I bet they're glad; after 3 fruitless years, the project must have been on the rocks.
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28 high-energy neutrinos, great! Nuclear submarines can now communicate at faster rates than 1 bit/s while deep under water without raising an antenna wire to the surface!
http://physicsworld.com/cws/article/news/2012/mar/19/neutrino-based-communication-is-a-first
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Apparently stamps. I saw Ice Cube at the Studio City post office.
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IceT, who spotted only 19 neutrinos was unavailable for comment.
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that Martians might have found Neutrinos easier than we did. If we were looking in the wrong place - looking for raw neutrinos as opposed to their interaction with cosmic background radiation, surely Mars would have more cosmic background radiation than Earth, having no electromagnetic field.
Ice tea ?? Pee Diddie ?? Bo Diddlie ?? Teddie Pendergrass ?? Eddie Kendricks ??
In 2005 I was a sysadmin at the IceCube Neutrino Observatory headquarters in Madison, Wisconsin. Biggest project I worked on was porting RS 485 serial drivers from a legacy unix system to Linux 2.6 and setting up the HP rack servers which we then shipped down to the pole from New Zealand on a C-130 Hercules. Also, I built a data visualization system in python+django which ran over a 1km-long DSL network between the drilling site and the south pole base. Never got to down there myself (my FTE boss did), but it was a fun project for a student and looks good on the resume and all. Did I mention SSH connections over satellite to Antarctica are pretty slow?
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Rapping, acting, and now high energy particle physics. What can't this guy do!?
I got to say it was a good day
You would never know, reading the original article, that neutrinos were detected from SuperNova 1987A back in, well, 1987.
"Most of the [neutrinos] originate from parts of the night sky that don’t include the Milky Way..."
Did you check to make sure they're not 180 degrees away from the Milky Way? Maybe they're messages from the future traveling backwards in time, and they just appear to be coming from outside the Milky Way. :-D
That would make this story at least 1000x more awesome, unless it turns out to be the first 28 bits of a galaxy-wide spamvertisement for boner pills that won't be invented until 10,000 years after we're dead.
So... are we living in the matrix or what?
Every normal man must be tempted, at times, to spit on his hands, hoist the black flag, and begin slitting throats. -HLM
Young neutrino got it bad 'cause I'm Tau...
Today was a good day.
I havent heard of kids detecting neutrinos for a science fair project yet.
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