Device's finding of high-energy neutrinos shows potential to reveal cosmic secrets.(The Orange County Register)

Knight Ridder/Tribune News Service | March 22, 2001| | Copyright

SANTA ANA, Calif. _ An instrument four football fields wide and more than a mile deep in the Antarctic ice has, for the first time, detected some of the strangest and most elusive particles in the universe _ high-energy neutrinos, which could offer glimpses of the first instants after the Big Bang.

The instrument, known as AMANDA, is an array of 680 light-sensitive globes sunk into the thick South Pole icecap. Scientists at the University of California, Irvine, who were deeply involved in designing and building it for the past seven years, say proving it works will ...

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