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To: Silentgypsy

How do they aim this thing?


14 posted on 01/03/2011 10:13:07 AM PST by aquila48
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To: aquila48

No aiming, they just look for collisions between neutrinos and atoms in the surrounding ice. Collisions are relatively rare, since almost all neutrinos go straight through the Earth. With a billion or so square meters of ice to look at, and neutrinos constantly zipping through Earth, they hope to see one collision every 20 minutes.


16 posted on 01/03/2011 10:25:23 AM PST by antiRepublicrat
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