That's right folks! ...All the way from Antarctica. I may be a proud Aussie from Brisbane - with TM, but it thrills me to share this info about the wonderful science being done to advance our knowledge of the cosmos. I found a blog being written by folk who live and work 6-months of their year in the "coldest place on Earth" - down-under in Antarctica. Their blog is titled - "Ice Cube Blog" - check the link here; http://blog.icecube.wisc.edu/ (and they are from the University of Wisconsin/Madison). While they're freezing their butt's off - they are doing world-leading research into Neutrino's...!!!!! So, what are Neutrino's you say?
A Neutrino is a particle with almost no mass, because it's so small. Infinitesimally small - in fact! The only way they can be found is by discovering their 'trails', left behind after they've travelled through the Earth! These very clever scientists have built a 'neutrino-detector' the size of 1-Cubic-Kilometer - and all of it is inside the ice-sheet above the land-mass ofAntarctica, in the U.S.A-Antarctic-Territory!
Sometimes I get the urge to share these bits of trivia with you, and anyway it helps to take my mind off of the 'elephant-in-the-room' (TM). So enjoy, I hope you don't mind...
A Neutrino is a particle with almost no mass, because it's so small. Infinitesimally small - in fact! The only way they can be found is by discovering their 'trails', left behind after they've travelled through the Earth! These very clever scientists have built a 'neutrino-detector' the size of 1-Cubic-Kilometer - and all of it is inside the ice-sheet above the land-mass ofAntarctica, in the U.S.A-Antarctic-Territory!
Sometimes I get the urge to share these bits of trivia with you, and anyway it helps to take my mind off of the 'elephant-in-the-room' (TM). So enjoy, I hope you don't mind...
