[HN Gopher] IceCube detection of a high-energy particle proves 6...
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IceCube detection of a high-energy particle proves 60-year-old
theory
Author : ssklash
Score : 47 points
Date : 2021-03-11 18:39 UTC (4 hours ago)
(HTM) web link (icecube.wisc.edu)
(TXT) w3m dump (icecube.wisc.edu)
| ggambetta wrote:
| "Proves a theory"? Karl Popper would like to have a word with
| them :)
| DoofusOfDeath wrote:
| The headline reminds me of the expression, "Theory is
| underdetermined by data" [0].
|
| Seems to me that the only way the headline could be true is if we
| use the older definition of "prove": to _test_.
|
| I imagine this is just another case of a university PR writer
| displaying his ignorance, to the great consternation of the
| researchers.
|
| [0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Underdetermination
| narag wrote:
| A long long time ago I was sitting with my mother in the living
| room when the big glass ashtray on the round table became a
| thousand pieces that dispersed like a liquid with a sand-like
| sound.
|
| Someone told me that cosmic rays could do that. Scary.
| magicalhippo wrote:
| This talk[1] from 2019 at Perimeter gives a nice and accessible
| overview of IceCube and how it detects neutrinos.
|
| [1]: http://pirsa.org/19040075/
| lainga wrote:
| 6.3 PeV - that's crazy! Wolfram Alpha tells me that'd be about
| enough energy as work to depress a key on a keyboard.
| lokimedes wrote:
| Now that would be spooky action at a distance.
| TheHideout wrote:
| Tangentially related if you're interested: I worked on IceCube
| and ARA as an undergrad in college and wrote a lengthy paper on
| the autonomous power stations we built for the ARA neutrino
| detectors at the South Pole.
|
| https://arxiv.org/abs/1403.1253
| blakesterz wrote:
| I was hoping O'Shea Jackson had gotten into physics, but
| apparently not. IceCube, in this case, is a Neutrino Observatory
| is the first detector of its kind, designed to observe the cosmos
| from deep within the South Pole ice.
|
| I've not heard of it before, looks very, uh, cool :-)
|
| https://icecube.wisc.edu/about-us/overview/
| bschne wrote:
| Mc Hammer is debating philosophy on twitter and clubhouse these
| days, who knows, might still happen
| SiempreViernes wrote:
| "Of it's kind" = using ice as the detector medium, there were
| other neutrino observatories before Pingu.
| maxnoe wrote:
| IceCube hat a precursor experiment called Amanda, at the same
| location
| bacon_waffle wrote:
| > I've not heard of it before, looks very, uh, cool :-)
|
| Indeed! I worked for IceCube for a bit over a year, several
| years ago, as a Winterover Experiment Operator - more like "on-
| site technician" than "frozen experimental physicist". Happy to
| answer questions about that experience.
| karaterobot wrote:
| Still a good day.
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