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UD researchers focus on building telescope at South Pole 3:46 p.m., Dec. 9, 2008----It's 40 degrees F below zero (with the wind chill) at the South Pole today. Yet a research team from the University of Delaware is taking it all in stride. The physicists, engineers and technicians from the University of Delaware's Bartol Research Institute are part of an international team working to build the world's largest neutrino telescope in the Antarctic ice, far beneath the continent's snow-covered surface. Dubbed “IceCube,” the telescope will occupy a cubic kilometer of Antarctica when it is completed in 2011, opening super-sensitive new eyes into the heavens. “IceCube will provide new information about some of the most violent and far-away astrophysical events in the cosmos,” says Thomas Gaisser, the Martin A. Pomerantz Chaired Professor of Physics and Astronomy at the University of Delaware, and one of the project's lead scientists. A huge telescope in the ice Neutrinos are among the most fundamental constituents of matter. Working in the deep freeze

Science News / Do Subatomic Particles Have Free Will? “If the atoms never swerve so as to originate some new movement that will snap the bonds of fate, the everlasting sequence of cause and effect—what is the source of the free will possessed by living things throughout the earth?”—Titus Lucretius Carus, Roman philosopher and poet, 99–55 BC. Human free will might seem like the squishiest of philosophical subjects, way beyond the realm of mathematical demonstration. But two highly regarded mathematicians, John Conway and Simon Kochen, claim to have proven that if humans have even the tiniest amount of free will, then atoms themselves must also behave unpredictably. The finding won’t give many physicists a moment’s worry, because traditional interpretations of quantum mechanics embrace unpredictability already. The best anyone can hope to do, quantum theory says, is predict the probability that a particle will behave in a certain way. But physicists all the way back to Einstein have been unhappy with this idea.

Hammer and Feather Corrected Transcript and Commentary Copyright © 1996 by Eric M. Jones. All rights reserved. Scan and panorama assembly credits in the Image Library. MP3 Audio Clip ( 6 min 34 sec ) Video Clip 2 min 24 sec ( 0.6 Mb RealVideo or 21 Mb MPG ) 167:02:55 Scott: Whenever you're ready, I'll get the tools off of you (that is, off Jim's PLSS). 167:03:02 Irwin: Okay. 167:03:18 Scott: They want to get that? 167:03:19 Irwin: I guess so; I don't know. 167:03:23 Scott: Yeah. [Jim goes to the back of the Rover, having left the SCB on his seat.] 167:03:25 Allen: Dave, that's affirm. 167:03:33 Scott: Okay. 167:03:35 Irwin: Okay, I'm ready to get the tools off. 167:03:36 Allen: And we're plenty comfortable on the time. 167:03:40 Scott: Yeah, well, we ought to get the descent engine sample first. 167:03:45 Irwin: Okay, well I don't need my bags for that. 167:03:47 Scott: Nope. 167:03:51 Irwin: I'll get the SESC. 167:03:52 Scott: Yeah; and a scoop. 167:03:54 Irwin: Yeah. 167:04:40 Irwin: Got it? 167:08:27 Irwin: Oh.

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