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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."
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?
A feeling of having made the same mistake before: Deja Foobar
Ive Cube? Pssssh. What has Ice T spotted?
Post your knot jokes here.
I don't knot what you are talking about.
A feeling of having made the same mistake before: Deja Foobar
THIS IS THE Dopest SHIT,
Since he split Dr Dre.
"Flyin' in just a sweet place,
Never been known to fail..."
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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."
Good:
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.
This would be a much better article to have the 'rocket' error that was on an earlier article; or, just to be different, NO ERRORS.
sheepishly....
Aren't they in the tea?
"File to fit, pound to insert, paint to match" - Aircraft Maintenance 101
I'm a frayed knot... Said the mixed up rope..
"File to fit, pound to insert, paint to match" - Aircraft Maintenance 101
... 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.
Electron Shape Measurement, Most Precise Yet, Rules Out New Physics Theories
Observation of micro–macro entanglement of light
much of left-wing thought is a kind of playing with fire by people who don't even know that fire is hot - George Orwell
This almost makes up for all those stupid family films he's been making. Well, this plus 21 Jump Street puts him over the top.
Is this lab STRAIGHT OUT OF COMPTON?
Thanks, OP. I appreciate the thread.
I bet Brian May could help Icecube. They should collaborate.
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.
YEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEAAAAAAAAAAHHHHHH
If you want to get high-energy neutrinos, you better straighten out your computations.
God spoke to me
No it has knot
Probably just some string theory conspirator.
rewriting history since 2109
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
Everything I write is lies, read between the lines.
You are now about to witness the strength of neutrino knowledge
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?
The unofficial
How dare you associate Sheldon with such an imbecilic experiment. Sheldon and any other mathematician worth his weight had ALREADY proven the existence of high speed neutrinos. I takes a pack of idiots to spend hundreds of millions of dollars to "prove" something when we had already done so YEARS ago.
28 Neutrinos later and the damn kids are still asking, "Are we there yet?"
When information is power, privacy is freedom.
Sheldon and any other mathematician...
How dare you lump Sheldon in with lowly mathematicians. He's a theoretical physicist, not some school teacher.
Um.....what do you think a theoretical physicist is, ignoramus?
This is about right...
http://xkcd.com/435/
LOL. I swear I took at least 30 seconds reading the fucking title wondering, "What the fuck is IceCube doing looking neutrinos?"
For a second guys.... My brain rationalized it. For just a little bit I accepted a reality where a gangsta rapper put the thug life on hold to look for secrets of the universe, not with weed, but with physics bitches.
You would never know, reading the original article, that neutrinos were detected from SuperNova 1987A back in, well, 1987.
Well, if Brian May can do it why can't a rapper?
Not a sentence!
I don't mean to treat the man unfairly. I'm speaking about his gangsta persona. It's not like his real name is Ice Cube you know...
So... are we living in the matrix or what?
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After GZA explained the origins of the universe. IceCube decides to one up him in the lab. Rap beef has been taken to a whole new level.
Just another second banana
Picture me rolling
from that joke man.
Just another second banana
I havent heard of kids detecting neutrinos for a science fair project yet.
How dare you lump Sheldon in with lowly mathematicians.
Steven hawking: "There's an arithmetic error on page three" of Sheldon's report.
George Smoot: "With all due respects, Dr. Cooper, but are you on crack?"
Free Martian Whores!
You know, Mister Ed, that if "ice cube" on slashdot makes you think about a rapper, maybe you're at the wrong site?
I'm REALLY disappointed. A bunch of offtopic, unfunny rapper jokes in a threat about an important scientific discovery and the fucking normals have to drown out any intelligent conversation I came here to read.
Come on, normals, STFU and let the smart folks educate you. That's what I come here for, not rapper jokes I could hear at a ghetto tavern.
Free Martian Whores!
To be fair, at least one of my "jokes" was modded down and it deserved to be because it was woefully unfunny.
On the other hand, my posting history does at least show I've occasionally attempted to clarify or explain various parts of cosmology that are within the bounds of my expertise (as a professional cosmologist of some seven or eight years post-doctoral experience). I think I'm allowed to make the occasional comment that I really wish I hadn't because it's simply not funny.
I think someone needs to lighten the fuck up
I was posting in response to somebody ASKING for funny thoughts about Ice Cube.
Get over yourself.
Welcome to Slashdot. This place always got shit floating at the top. At least the site moved on past GNAA and Natalie Portman crap.
All the early posts are made by those that don't read the article or (at most) quickly skim wikipedia on the subject. So just do what the rest of us are doing: scroll down past first 3-4 threads and at that point you might come across something more insightful and worthwhile.