Talk:3053: KM3NeT

First groan! (Not that I don't appreciate it, but definitely the most groanworthy comic in a long while...) 172.69.195.229 17:59, 19 February 2025 (UTC) For future context, this array has risen in notoriety thanks to the recent detection of the highest energy neutrino yet, but sadly I need to take this occasion to note how the deadliest thing in the strait of Sicily are not superluminal alien fish, but human traffickers moving people on botched up vessels from the north African coast for the past fifteen years, often resulting in shipwrecks in the waters right above KM3NeT. --172.70.216.67 22:39, 19 February 2025 (UTC)

I heard about this last week from a BBC Podcast (Inside Science?). The telescope is only part complete*, and consists of photo-multipliers (can detect a single photon) in glass spheres on a string rising from the sea floor to create a 3D grid (as illustrated). As the decay results in further luminescent particles the direction can be determined and the muon was travelling tangentially to the surface. *As with LIGO, the observation was made when the facility wasn't fully commissioned, so they had to carefully check for other light sources (possible joke source) that they weren't being 'swallowed' by bioluminecence? RIIW - Ponder it (talk) 08:13, 20 February 2025 (UTC)

So... excuse my naivité, but how do they, in reality, ensure bioluminescent fish are not confusing the neutrino detectors? 162.158.155.101 19:33, 20 February 2025 (UTC)