{"product_id":"9781137280084","title":"The Telescope in the Ice: Inventing a New Astronomy at the South Pole","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e**One of \u003ci\u003eForbes'\u003c\/i\u003e 10 Best Astronomy, Physics And Mathematics Books of 2017**\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e\"Richly intimate, drawing on Mr. Bowen's long involvement with the IceCube project and its participants...Human emotions are palpable in the author's you-are-there framing.\" —\u003ci\u003eThe Wall Street Journal\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAlan Lightman: \"A masterpiece of storytelling, bringing to life in rich detail not only the world of science but also the men and women who inhabit that world.\"\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eGeorge Musser, author of \u003ci\u003eSpooky Action at a Distance: \"\u003c\/i\u003eIf you want to know how science really works, this is your book.\"\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eSheldon Lee Glashow, 1979 Nobel Laureate in Physics: \"A page-turning chronicle of the decades-long struggle by hundreds of physicists and engineers to create a frontier laboratory for the pursuit of the new discipline of neutrino astronomy.\"\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe IceCube Observatory has been called the “weirdest” of the seven wonders of modern astronomy by \u003ci\u003eScientific American\u003c\/i\u003e. In \u003ci\u003eThe Telescope in the Ice,\u003c\/i\u003e Mark Bowen tells the amazing story of the people who built the instrument and the science involved.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eLocated near the U. S. Amundsen-Scott Research Station at the geographic South Pole, IceCube is unlike most telescopes in that it is not designed to detect light. It employs a cubic kilometer of diamond-clear ice, more than a mile beneath the surface, to detect an elementary particle known as the neutrino. In 2010, it detected the first extraterrestrial high-energy neutrinos from outer space and thus gave birth to a new field of astronomy.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIceCube is also the largest particle physics detector ever built. Its scientific goals span not only astrophysics and cosmology but also pure particle physics. And since the neutrino is one of the strangest and least understood of the known elementary particles, this is fertile ground. Neutrino physics is perhaps the most active field in particle physics today, and IceCube is at the forefront.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eThe Telescope in the Ice \u003c\/i\u003eis, 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. It is a success story.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"St. Martin's Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47011677077744,"sku":"9781137280084","price":27.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/9781137280084_p0.jpg?v=1763697686","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/9781137280084","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}