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Dan Hooper

@DanHooperAstro

Physicist and author, Director of the Wisconsin IceCube Particle Astrophysics Center (WIPAC) at the University of Wisconsin-Madison

Madison, WI Katılım Kasım 2017
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Dan Hooper
Dan Hooper@DanHooperAstro·
At the Edge of Time: Exploring the Mysteries of Our Universe's First Seconds is available now. A tour of our cosmic history, focusing on the first moments after the Big Bang and the puzzles of dark matter, dark energy, inflation and antimatter. #EdgeofTime amazon.com/gp/product/069…
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IceCube Neutrino Observatory
String 90 has been deployed! 🎉 Here, IceCubers are surrounding the final mDOM installed on the string, which was nicknamed "Give Me The Night." (Fun fact: all the mDOMs are named after disco or Taylor Swift songs! 🎶) Only 3 more strings to go!! 📸: Emmett Krupczak
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IceCube Neutrino Observatory@uw_icecube·
Happy Holidays from our IceCubers at the South Pole! ❄️ The crew finished installation of the first string of modules for the IceCube Upgrade! 🎉 Congratulations to everyone involved! 👏 One string down, six more to go! 📸 Yuya Makino and Albrecht Karle, IceCube/NSF
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IceCube Neutrino Observatory@uw_icecube·
🎥 Here is a 7-hour time-lapse at the start of drilling the first hole for the IceCube Upgrade. This comes almost exactly 15 years after drilling for the 86th hole of IceCube was finished on December 18, 2010! 🤯 🎥 Jennifer Wang and Vedant Basu, IceCube/NSF
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Dan Hooper@DanHooperAstro·
I heard a rumor that GAPS just successfully launched! Can anyone confirm? Any pictures? Any details?
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Congrats to IceCube PI Francis Halzen, recipient of the 2026 @APSphysics Medal for Exceptional Achievement in Research! 🏅 His leadership of IceCube and its discoveries have made significant contributions to the field of neutrino astrophysics. aps.org/apsnews/2025/1….
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Martin Bauer
Martin Bauer@martinmbauer·
JUNO, the world’s largest liquid scintillator neutrino detector has started to take data. 20000 tons, 43000 photo multipliers, 700m underground The chinese experiment aims to determine the neutrino mass hierarchy and measure neutrino mixing angles at sub-% level
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Chris Quigg@chrisquigg·
RIP Bill Bardeen, superb theorist and exemplary colleague.
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IceCube Neutrino Observatory@uw_icecube·
🎥 Here is a 2.5-hour timelapse of the crew moving a tower and tower operation site building (red) into position above the planned 1st hole for the IceCube Upgrade. It took 2 operators and 3 machines to move the buildings. . 🎥 Jennifer Wang and Vedant Basu, IceCube/NSF
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IceCube Neutrino Observatory@uw_icecube·
📍This past week at the Pole has been nothing short of action-packed; the changing of the (IceCube winterover) guard, Upgrade activities at full steam ahead, and lots of arriving cargo! Read more about week 45 ➡️icecube.wisc.edu/news/life-at-t… 📸:Alicia Fattorini, IceCube/NSF
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Norm Macdonald Joke of the Day
Norm Macdonald Joke of the Day@NormSNLJokes·
Stephen J. Hawking, the renowned astrophysicist regarded as Albert Einstein's intellectual successor, conceded defeat this week in a wager he made six years ago with two professors at the California Institute of Technology. Hawking incorrectly bet against the existence of naked singularities -- a mathematical point in a black hole where space and time are infinitely distorted, where matter is infinitely dense, and where the rules of relativistic physics break down. With all due respect to Mister Hawking... what the hell were you thinking?!!
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