[HN Gopher] IceCube observes seven potential tau neutrinos
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IceCube observes seven potential tau neutrinos
Author : gmays
Score : 87 points
Date : 2024-04-25 18:43 UTC (1 days ago)
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| jprd wrote:
| Every. Time.
|
| Every single time this science hits headlines I have at least (5)
| seconds of trying to understand how O'Shea Jackson suddenly had a
| scientific addendum to neutrinos and if that is as-cool or cooler
| than "No Vaseline".
| morgango wrote:
| Well, there ain't no tellin' when he's down for a jack move ...
| lagrange77 wrote:
| Right, i was also like "well, that's even more impressive, than
| the truck driver becoming a coder at 38 from a few days ago.".
| aidenn0 wrote:
| Straight outta Amundsen-Scott / Crazy observatory named Ice
| Cube / From the gang called "physicists with attitude" / when
| I'm called on / I find a lepton / they emit Cherenkov radiation
| huytersd wrote:
| Do you think the people that named this program knew about the
| rapper?
| ericcholis wrote:
| I got more than a little excited that somehow O'Shea Jackson
| picked up an interesting hobby.
| exmadscientist wrote:
| Probably! There were lots of us grad students on Francis's
| floor! But I don't think he cared very much about that sort of
| thing. (Maybe more than he cared about being on my committee,
| though? OK, low bar.)
|
| I really do think it's named that because it looks like a cube
| and it's made in the ice. So, y'know, icecube.
| ambicapter wrote:
| I mean, ice cubes are also a real thing that existed before the
| rapper.
| huytersd wrote:
| Yeah but the question was about how familiar the people
| involved might be with the rapper. I would imagine any 30+
| American or European (probably) would.
| ars wrote:
| Not me. I was very confused by some of the messages here
| until I saw your comment.
|
| I take it he's a well known? I've never heard of him.
| huntertwo wrote:
| Very well known in the states - take a look at his
| wikipedia https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ice_Cube
| ziddoap wrote:
| He was a founding member of N.W.A, which was very
| influential to the rap scene:
|
| > _They were among the earliest and most significant
| popularizers and controversial figures of the gangsta rap
| subgenre, and the group is widely considered one of the
| greatest and most influential groups in the history of
| hip hop music_
|
| > _Rolling Stone ranked N.W.A at number 83 on its list of
| the "100 Greatest Artists of All Time"._
| Fishkins wrote:
| About 12 years ago someone told me Francis said they would've
| named IceCube something different if they'd known about the
| rapper. I can't find any references to that quote now, though.
| dylan604 wrote:
| It is Friday, and you ain't got shit to do, so...might as well
| find some neutrinos
| m3kw9 wrote:
| So IceCube can so do exotic physics? He can def rap though.
| wanderingstan wrote:
| The IceCube observatory is incredible:
| https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IceCube_Neutrino_Observatory
|
| Incredible to image a square kilometer of pure ice transformed
| into a sensor to detect rare subatomic particles!
| packetlost wrote:
| I worked with a former SW technical coordinator who came right
| from IceCube. The software that runs their analysis and stuff
| like that is insane. Many, many terabytes of data to crunch.
| It's very cool stuff
| fch42 wrote:
| I did an internship with the Amanda (Antarctic Muon and
| Neutrino Detector Array) project - IceCubes "Pathfinder" - in
| the mid-1990s, and found it one of the most rewarding
| experiences in my life. There are over 30 years of work from
| hundreds of people in this project, and to see how it has
| really made it from "madcap folly" to "a new lens to the
| universe" gives me the shivers. Hat's off to them.
| packetlost wrote:
| It's a truly impressive project. Glad to hear your
| experience there was also a good one.
| SamBam wrote:
| That's the kind of thing where I can't even imagine how the
| project conceivers and directors can even have the creativity
| and chutzpah to envision a $300 million dollar lab made by
| boring dozens of tubes 2 kilometers into the south pole to
| create a giant _cubic_ kilometer of sensors.
|
| Obviously I'm glad such people exist.
| jgalt212 wrote:
| I believe these folks saw $300MM as a modest and cost
| effective ask given what the usual table stakes are in
| particle physics.
| jgalt212 wrote:
| The Telescope in the Ice was an enjoyable read.
|
| https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/33573932-the-telescope-i...
| frob wrote:
| Also on a massive scale, there's the Pierre Auger cosmic ray
| observatory. It covers an area about the size of Rhode Island.
|
| https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pierre_Auger_Observatory
| charlie0 wrote:
| I've been watching too much Rick and Morty. I thought this was
| related to Water-T and the show at first glance.
| hn_version_0023 wrote:
| Seems like it might be time to _crunch the numbers_
| duffyjp wrote:
| I went to UW Madison and now work there and know someone who did
| a rotation at IceCube (doing tech support). It would be a really
| neat life experience but Wisconsin is already too cold for my
| taste.
|
| What they do it totally out of my field, but I love hearing about
| it. It's a big source of pride in the university.
| concomitant wrote:
| Clearly, it was a good day
| nimbius wrote:
| you could say today was a good day...
| timmattison wrote:
| I was hoping to hear he went from rapper to physicist. Guess not.
| simple10 wrote:
| I immediately went to ChatGPT to generate an image of a rapper
| observing neutrinos. Sigh.
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