Hank: IceCube's neutrino map of the galaxy will get higher resolution as more collisions are detected (2023)
prediction · status: unresolved · last event: predicted (2023-07-21) · owner: Hank
In July 2023 Hank predicted that IceCube's neutrino map of the galaxy would get higher resolution as more neutrino collisions are detected.
About: IceCube Neutrino Observatory
| date | event | what | video |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2023-07-21 | predicted | Hank predicts that as more collisions are detected, and hopefully detection improves, the neutrino map of the galaxy will get higher resolution. | The Biggest Weirdest Telescope We've Ever Built 00:07:23 |
What is said about it
6 statements, by date (the events above are the turns of the thread; these are the details).
- 2023-07-21 · The Biggest Weirdest Telescope We've Ever Built — The description calls IceCube a square kilometer of transparent ancient ice holding five thousand light detectors, and says it counts as a telescope. — video description
- 2023-07-21 · The Biggest Weirdest Telescope We've Ever Built — Hank says scientists drilled holes in the ice with hot water drills and lowered instruments to detect faint light flashes from neutrino collisions: the IceCube Neutrino Observatory. — 00:05:26
- 2023-07-21 · The Biggest Weirdest Telescope We've Ever Built — Hank loves that the name IceCube stands for nothing because it is a big ice cube, though it is really more like a hexagonal prism. (playful) — 00:05:26
- 2023-07-21 · The Biggest Weirdest Telescope We've Ever Built — Hank says IceCube has detected over 100,000 neutrino collisions, a very small share of the neutrinos passing through it. — 00:05:55
- 2023-07-21 · The Biggest Weirdest Telescope We've Ever Built — Hank says machine learning made it possible to pick out galactic neutrinos and create the first map of our galaxy not based on photons, still very low resolution. — 00:06:53
- 2023-07-21 · The Biggest Weirdest Telescope We've Ever Built — Hank calls the IceCube observatory, a giant prism of ancient Antarctic ice, the most bizarre of telescopes, an entirely new way of observing our galaxy that will tell us much about how it works. — 00:07:23