January 29, 2003

Neu! Telescope.

The world's first neutrino telescope is up and running, UCI scientists say.

The detector, a massive array of light-sensitive globes buried in the crystal clear Antarctic ice, has had its first test run, Barwick reported in a scientific paper last week.

For scientists, it will be like switching from grainy black-and-white television with rabbit ear antennas to a crisp Sony Trinitron with cable.

They could watch the births or the death throes of stars as if they were happening next door.

A continual rain of microscopic black holes in our atmosphere.

It would be solid proof of the existence of other dimensions. That would mean that gravity is actually a strong force, as strong as the others, but a shadow of itself when measured only in our familiar set of four dimensions.

The rest of it could be "leaking" into the other dimensions.
Orange County Register

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