Strange radio pulses detected coming from ice in Antarctica

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Strange radio pulses detected coming from ice in Antarctica​

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Strange radio pulses detected coming from ice in Antarctica

A cosmic particle detector in Antarctica has emitted a series of bizarre signals that defy the current understanding of particle physics, according to an international research group that includes scientists from Penn State. The unusual radio pulses were detected by the Antarctic Impulsive...
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Now all we need is a megalomaniac billionaire engineer to fund a mission to find the source of strange radio pulses coming from beneath the antarctic ice.

What could go wrong?
 
Planigale said:

Strange radio pulses detected coming from ice in Antarctica​

phys.org

Strange radio pulses detected coming from ice in Antarctica

A cosmic particle detector in Antarctica has emitted a series of bizarre signals that defy the current understanding of particle physics, according to an international research group that includes scientists from Penn State. The unusual radio pulses were detected by the Antarctic Impulsive...
phys.org phys.org

Now all we need is a megalomaniac billionaire engineer to fund a mission to find the source of strange radio pulses coming from beneath the antarctic ice.

What could go wrong?
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I guess that first "emitted" is a typo and should read "detected" ?
 
Let's see. If not neutrinos, are they larger and therefore more prone to interaction? Article seems to say this is not a refraction nor absortion/re-emission, but rather something traveling through the rock, then the ice, so certainly not large. Noobie in the SM seems a stretch. With complex equipment and software interpretation in the mix, my bet is on it being an artifact of processing. If real, I'd throw in with DM, provisionally.
 
Planigale said:

Strange radio pulses detected coming from ice in Antarctica​

phys.org

Strange radio pulses detected coming from ice in Antarctica

A cosmic particle detector in Antarctica has emitted a series of bizarre signals that defy the current understanding of particle physics, according to an international research group that includes scientists from Penn State. The unusual radio pulses were detected by the Antarctic Impulsive...
phys.org phys.org

Now all we need is a megalomaniac billionaire engineer to fund a mission to find the source of strange radio pulses coming from beneath the antarctic ice.

What could go wrong?
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An Argentine research team seem to imply that the anomalous readings from the Antarctic research may just be statistical noise.

Strange radio signals detected by a balloon-borne antenna over Antarctica sparked wild theories about physics-defying particles. Now, the world’s largest cosmic ray detector has delivered a reality check that could deflate those exotic explanations.…
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The ANITA mystery illustrates a fundamental principle of science: extraordinary claims require extraordinary evidence. Auger’s massive scale and long observation period make it an ideal complement to ANITA’s specialized capabilities. The fact that the world’s largest cosmic ray detector found essentially nothing where exotic theories predicted dozens of events means those physics-breaking particles traveling through Earth’s core likely don’t exist.
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PitPat said:
Argentinians?
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I misspoke. The 3000km2 observatory is in Argentina.
(btw, why not Argentinians?)

From Wiki
The observatory was named after the French physicist Pierre Victor Auger. The project was proposed by Jim Cronin and Alan Watson in 1992. Today, more than 500 physicists from nearly 100 institutions around the world are collaborating to maintain and upgrade the site in Argentina and collect and analyse the measured data. The 15 participating countries shared the $50 million construction budget, each providing a small portion of the total cost.
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Their (collaborative) paper on the anomalous readings from Antarctica is here:
 
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I'd kinda like to know what station they are playing. Like, are they listening to Foreigner's Cold as Ice, or Vanills Ice's Ice Ice Baby?
 
Thermal said:
I'd kinda like to know what station they are playing. Like, are they listening to Foreigner's Cold as Ice, or Vanills Ice's Ice Ice Baby?
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Pretty sure it's the looping ICE signal warning to turn yourselves in before things get really bad.

I'm Kristi Noem and my voice will never go away for as long as this PR campaign lasts.
 
Meanwhile, back in the real(?) world - do you get piezo-electric effects with ice? And could that be something to do with it?
 
arthwollipot said:
Not regular ice, no. I believe piezoelectric effects have been observed in some of the more exotic crystalline phases of ice, which do not occur naturally.
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Depending on the rocks below the ice, movement of the ice could be causing the piezoelectric effect in those rocks.

(i.e. changing mass above the rocks causes changing pressure on the rocks which causes electric discharges.)

(Granite, quartz, quartzite as examples.)

(Not an exhaustive list)
 
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