If you've seen the video, you have been keeping up-to-date.
I accidentally came upon this nice 30' video from 2017 produced by Univ Wisconsin-Madison (lead institution) about the IceCube Neutrino Observatory:
There's some corny dialogue, but plenty of useful info and passable graphics for retired Cosmic Ray physicists.
I was searching for info about the amazing Amundsen-Scott South Pole Station. Incredible sight and site. Plenty of useful videos available. In particular, I was interested in the details of the optical telescope at the south pole. It has a primary 10m mirror (!) and is dedicated to studies of the cosmic ray background. As an optical telescope fanatic and as a matter of interest it is a Gregorian off-axis microwave telescope on an altazimuth mount (same as equatorial mount at the south pole!). Again videos available, or consult Wikipedia.
As a matter of personal interest, when I was somewhat younger, I applied and was interviewed about joining the Australian Antarctic Division as a physicist.
TonyP
Thanks Tony. What a magnificent doco - well worth the investment of 30 mins to listen to this amazing experiment - some references even reminiscent of the SUGAR project, though on a much larger and more expensive scale. We are very lucky to have you on the lookout for these fascinating scientific programs so the rest of us can watch, listen and wonder at what humans, much smarter than any of us, are getting up to.
ReplyDeleteBTW, at the end of this youtube video, there is a natural lead-in to one titled "How far is the edge of the universe?". Dave Crawford might be interested in checking how his cosmology theory responds to the questions raised there