Ponder this ‘strange telescope’ buried deep at the South
PoleFindings from extraordinary scientific research in the heart
of Antarctica -- the IceCube Neutrino Observatory -- that
includes a UW-River Falls connection will be presented on campus
and at a Main Street café the week of Nov. 26-Dec. 1. By: Phil
Pfuehler, River Falls Journal Findings from extraordinary
scientific research in the heart of Antarctica -- the IceCube
Neutrino Observatory -- that includes a UW-River Falls
connection will be presented on campus and at a Main Street café
the week of Nov. 26-Dec. 1. “The IceCube is the biggest and
strangest telescope in the word, and the largest science project
ever funded in Wisconsin,” says Jim Madsen, UWRF Physics
Department chairman and professor who’s been to the South Pole
to help set up the IceCube Observatory. “It involves more than
250 scientists around the world in 38 institutions. Despite
trying technological challenges associated with new ideas that
need to work in the extreme Antarctic environ