Ebook {Epub PDF} The Telescope in the Ice: Inventing a New Astronomy at the South Pole by Mark Bowen

The Telescope in the Ice: Inventing a New Astronomy at the South Pole by Mark Bowen is a well written account that tells of a telescope and the building of it in the extreme weather of the South Pole. It tells the story of the frontier lab being created by scientists, who mainly were physicists, and engineers/5.  · In The Telescope in the Ice, Mark Bowen tells the amazing story of the people who built the instrument and the science involved. Located 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. The Telescope in the Ice is about the building of IceCube, which Scientific American has called the "weirdest" of the seven wonders of modern astronomy. It's the inside story of the people who built the instrument, the mistakes they made, the blind alleys they went down, the solutions they found, their conflicts, and their teamwork.

Find many great new used options and get the best deals for The Telescope in the Ice: Inventing a New Astronomy at the South Pole by Mark Bowen (, Hardcover) at the best online prices at eBay! Free shipping for many products! Bowen, a physicist and writer, immerses readers deep in Antarctic ice as he offers a mesmerizing look at a development in cutting-edge astrophysics with which few people are familiar: the South. The Telescope in the Ice: Inventing a New Astronomy at the South Pole by Mark Bowen is a well written account that tells of a telescope and the building of it in the extreme weather of the South Pole. It tells the story of the frontier lab being created by scientists, who mainly were physicists, and engineers.

St. Martin’s, $ (p) ISBN Bowen, a physicist and writer, immerses readers deep in Antarctic ice as he offers a mesmerizing look at a development in cutting-edge. The Telescope in the Ice by Mark Bowen doesn’t quite delve as much into the science as I was hoping, but it is still a solidly informative and highly engaging work that tells the story of how the Icecube Neutrino Observatory (set at the South Pole) was conceived and built and how it was immediately successful. Neutrino physics is perhaps the most active field in particle physics today, and IceCube is at the forefront. 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. It is a success story.