In 2010, it detected the first extraterrestrial high-energy neutrinos from outer space 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. In The Telescope in the Ice, Mark Bowen tells the amazing story of the people who built the instrument and the science involved. Bowen's long involvement with the IceCube project and its participants.Human emotions are palpable in the author's you-are-there framing." - The Wall Street Journal Alan Lightman: "A masterpiece of storytelling, bringing to life in rich detail not only the world of science but also the men and women who inhabit that world." George Musser, author of Spooky Action at a Distance: " If you want to know how science really works, this is your book." Sheldon Lee Glashow, 1979 Nobel Laureate in Physics: "A page-turning chronicle of the decades-long struggle by hundreds of physicists and engineers to create a frontier laboratory for the pursuit of the new discipline of neutrino astronomy." The IceCube Observatory has been called the "weirdest" of the seven wonders of modern astronomy by Scientific American.
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