Bowen's long involvement with the IceCube project and its participants.Human emotions are palpable in the author's you-are-there framing. The Telescope in the Ice is, ultimately, a book about people and the thrill of the chase: the struggle to understand the neutrino and the pioneers and inventors of neutrino astronomy. Neutrino physics is perhaps the most active field in particle physics today, and IceCube is at the forefront. And since the neutrino is one of the strangest and least understood of the known elementary particles, this is fertile ground. Its scientific goals span not only astrophysics and cosmology but also pure particle physics. IceCube is also the largest particle physics detector ever built. In 2010, it detected the first extraterrestrial high-energy neutrinos and thus gave birth to a new field of astronomy. It employs a cubic kilometre of diamond-clear ice, more than a mile beneath the surface, to detect an elementary particle known as the neutrino.
Amundsen-Scott Research Station at the geographic South Pole, IceCube is unlike most telescopes in that it is not designed to detect light. Print The Telescope in the Ice: Inventing a New Astronomy at the South Pole
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