me reading physics; "super kamiokande sounds way too like a pro wrestling move"
*Statlander pauses. concentrates. eyes closed. face red. redder....*
SHE IMPLODES AND TAKES SIX OTHER WRESTLERS WITH HER
OH NO EXCALIBUR SHE WENT FOR THE SUPER KAMIOKANDE
TONY THAT'S A SIX WRESTLER DETECTION EVENT
*Statlander pauses. concentrates. eyes closed. face red. redder....*
SHE IMPLODES AND TAKES SIX OTHER WRESTLERS WITH HER
OH NO EXCALIBUR SHE WENT FOR THE SUPER KAMIOKANDE
TONY THAT'S A SIX WRESTLER DETECTION EVENT
March 8, 2026 at 3:38 AM
me reading physics; "super kamiokande sounds way too like a pro wrestling move"
*Statlander pauses. concentrates. eyes closed. face red. redder....*
SHE IMPLODES AND TAKES SIX OTHER WRESTLERS WITH HER
OH NO EXCALIBUR SHE WENT FOR THE SUPER KAMIOKANDE
TONY THAT'S A SIX WRESTLER DETECTION EVENT
*Statlander pauses. concentrates. eyes closed. face red. redder....*
SHE IMPLODES AND TAKES SIX OTHER WRESTLERS WITH HER
OH NO EXCALIBUR SHE WENT FOR THE SUPER KAMIOKANDE
TONY THAT'S A SIX WRESTLER DETECTION EVENT
rainbow super kamiokande
August 25, 2026 at 8:56 AM
rainbow super kamiokande
Super-Kamiokande neutrino detector
April 4, 2025 at 10:12 PM
Super-Kamiokande neutrino detector
Damnit, I almost got a good hallucination
October 6, 2026 at 11:49 AM
Damnit, I almost got a good hallucination
In 1987, Japan's Kamiokande detector detected 11 neutrinos in 13 seconds from an exploding star in another galaxy. Just minutes earlier it was offline for routine maintenance, but came back online (by accident) just in time to accidentally capture the burst.
September 5, 2026 at 6:10 AM
In 1987, Japan's Kamiokande detector detected 11 neutrinos in 13 seconds from an exploding star in another galaxy. Just minutes earlier it was offline for routine maintenance, but came back online (by accident) just in time to accidentally capture the burst.
Japan’s #SuperKamiokande observatory is seeing what might be the first hints of #neutrinos from exploding stars. www.nature.com/articles/d41...
Huge neutrino detector sees first hints of particles from exploding stars
Japan’s Super-Kamiokande observatory could be seeing evidence of neutrinos from supernovae across cosmic history. Japan’s Super-Kamiokande observatory could be seeing evidence of neutrinos from supern...
www.nature.com
July 12, 2024 at 2:11 AM
Japan’s #SuperKamiokande observatory is seeing what might be the first hints of #neutrinos from exploding stars. www.nature.com/articles/d41...
post a non-religious image you think of as holy
November 7, 2025 at 9:26 AM
post a non-religious image you think of as holy
Cherenkov radiation, apparently. In very, very small amounts. That picture looks like the one that Super-Kamikande generated; see en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Super-K... and strangepaths.com/the-sun-seen...
Super-Kamiokande - Wikipedia
en.wikipedia.org
November 14, 2024 at 9:25 AM
Cherenkov radiation, apparently. In very, very small amounts. That picture looks like the one that Super-Kamikande generated; see en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Super-K... and strangepaths.com/the-sun-seen...
I was watching a thing about Super-Kamiokande yesterday & it broke my brain a little 😁 What they’ve achieved with the IceCube Neutrino Observatory is amazing. Well deserved winners 😃
October 6, 2026 at 12:03 PM
I was watching a thing about Super-Kamiokande yesterday & it broke my brain a little 😁 What they’ve achieved with the IceCube Neutrino Observatory is amazing. Well deserved winners 😃
Pourquoi la matière domine-t-'elle l'antimatière dans notre Univers ?
L'IRFU (Institut de Recherche sur les lois Fondamentales de l'Univers) participe à la préparation d'Hyper-Kamiokande, une expérience d'oscillations de neutrinos produits par accélérateur de particules, pour éclaircir ce mystère.
L'IRFU (Institut de Recherche sur les lois Fondamentales de l'Univers) participe à la préparation d'Hyper-Kamiokande, une expérience d'oscillations de neutrinos produits par accélérateur de particules, pour éclaircir ce mystère.
September 25, 2025 at 8:39 AM
Pourquoi la matière domine-t-'elle l'antimatière dans notre Univers ?
L'IRFU (Institut de Recherche sur les lois Fondamentales de l'Univers) participe à la préparation d'Hyper-Kamiokande, une expérience d'oscillations de neutrinos produits par accélérateur de particules, pour éclaircir ce mystère.
L'IRFU (Institut de Recherche sur les lois Fondamentales de l'Univers) participe à la préparation d'Hyper-Kamiokande, une expérience d'oscillations de neutrinos produits par accélérateur de particules, pour éclaircir ce mystère.
Not a dumb question at all. Neutrinos interacts extremely rarely with the atoms of matter. The detection strategy is therefore to boost this by putting A LARGE NUMBER of atoms in their way - in this case, 50,000 tonnes of water at SuperKamiokande in Japan www-sk.icrr.u-tokyo.ac.jp/en/sk/
November 14, 2024 at 9:41 AM
Not a dumb question at all. Neutrinos interacts extremely rarely with the atoms of matter. The detection strategy is therefore to boost this by putting A LARGE NUMBER of atoms in their way - in this case, 50,000 tonnes of water at SuperKamiokande in Japan www-sk.icrr.u-tokyo.ac.jp/en/sk/
ich habe 2001 in den super-kamiokande gepisst
October 26, 2024 at 10:30 PM
ich habe 2001 in den super-kamiokande gepisst
De zon gezien dwars door de aarde in “neutrinolicht”
Een foto gemaakt met de Japanse Super-kamiokande neutrino detector.
www.astroblogs.nl/2014/11/04/e...
Een foto gemaakt met de Japanse Super-kamiokande neutrino detector.
www.astroblogs.nl/2014/11/04/e...
January 15, 2025 at 9:58 PM
De zon gezien dwars door de aarde in “neutrinolicht”
Een foto gemaakt met de Japanse Super-kamiokande neutrino detector.
www.astroblogs.nl/2014/11/04/e...
Een foto gemaakt met de Japanse Super-kamiokande neutrino detector.
www.astroblogs.nl/2014/11/04/e...
This picture is taken at Super-Kamiokande. Neutrinos occasionally eject a particle, e.g. an electron from an atom. If this electron is faster than light in the medium (water), then electrons emit Cherenkov light that can be detected with photomultipliers. We detect neutrinos indirectly this way.
November 14, 2024 at 9:43 AM
This picture is taken at Super-Kamiokande. Neutrinos occasionally eject a particle, e.g. an electron from an atom. If this electron is faster than light in the medium (water), then electrons emit Cherenkov light that can be detected with photomultipliers. We detect neutrinos indirectly this way.
The Hyper Kamiokande has the most cyberpunk name ever. Excited to hear of first light in 2027. Go Japan!
en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hyper-K...
en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hyper-K...
Hyper-Kamiokande - Wikipedia
en.m.wikipedia.org
April 25, 2025 at 7:01 PM
The Hyper Kamiokande has the most cyberpunk name ever. Excited to hear of first light in 2027. Go Japan!
en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hyper-K...
en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hyper-K...
die "kamera" ist dieser gigantische wassertank (50mio liter), der neutrino detektor super-kamiokande
October 25, 2023 at 4:15 PM
die "kamera" ist dieser gigantische wassertank (50mio liter), der neutrino detektor super-kamiokande
In honour of spooky month, share a 4 word horror story that only someone in your profession would understand.
Kamiokande saw 10^38 neutrinos.
(In fairness there’d be no one left to utter the sentence…)
Kamiokande saw 10^38 neutrinos.
(In fairness there’d be no one left to utter the sentence…)
In honour of spooky month, share a 4 word horror story that only someone in your profession would understand.
rm -rf ~/
rm -rf ~/
"The chancellor approved it"
October 12, 2025 at 12:07 PM
In honour of spooky month, share a 4 word horror story that only someone in your profession would understand.
Kamiokande saw 10^38 neutrinos.
(In fairness there’d be no one left to utter the sentence…)
Kamiokande saw 10^38 neutrinos.
(In fairness there’d be no one left to utter the sentence…)
Super Kamiokande neutrino detector, Gifu Prefecture, Japan
June 6, 2025 at 3:44 PM
Super Kamiokande neutrino detector, Gifu Prefecture, Japan
TIL two cool things about the Super Kamiokande facility (a massive neutrino detector in Japan):
1) There's a live feed available¹.
2) It failed catastrophically in 2001 when a single 50cm diameter vacuum tube imploded. A chain reaction took out 6,600 of the 11,000+ tubes.
1) There's a live feed available¹.
2) It failed catastrophically in 2001 when a single 50cm diameter vacuum tube imploded. A chain reaction took out 6,600 of the 11,000+ tubes.
July 17, 2025 at 9:44 PM
TIL two cool things about the Super Kamiokande facility (a massive neutrino detector in Japan):
1) There's a live feed available¹.
2) It failed catastrophically in 2001 when a single 50cm diameter vacuum tube imploded. A chain reaction took out 6,600 of the 11,000+ tubes.
1) There's a live feed available¹.
2) It failed catastrophically in 2001 when a single 50cm diameter vacuum tube imploded. A chain reaction took out 6,600 of the 11,000+ tubes.
For more than 20 years, my collaborators and I have been working towards a first detection of the diffuse supernova neutrino background (DSNB) --- the faint glow of neutrinos from all past core collapses throughout the universe. Super-Kamiokande now sees a 2.6sigma indication of detecting this.
June 30, 2026 at 10:44 PM
For more than 20 years, my collaborators and I have been working towards a first detection of the diffuse supernova neutrino background (DSNB) --- the faint glow of neutrinos from all past core collapses throughout the universe. Super-Kamiokande now sees a 2.6sigma indication of detecting this.
The Super-Kamiokande in Japan: a massive underground neutrino detector lined with 11,000 golden bulbs. Scientists have to inspect it via a rubber dinghy.
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August 28, 2026 at 12:56 PM
The Super-Kamiokande in Japan: a massive underground neutrino detector lined with 11,000 golden bulbs. Scientists have to inspect it via a rubber dinghy.
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Completata in Giappone la gigantesca caverna alta 93,7 metri che ospiterà l'esperimento Hyper-Kamiokande. Osserverà i neutrini provenienti dalle esplosioni di supernovae e analizzerà i fasci di neutrini prodotti dall’acceleratore J-PARC a 300 km di distanza
www.icrr.u-tokyo.ac.jp/prwps/wp-con...
www.icrr.u-tokyo.ac.jp/prwps/wp-con...
August 6, 2025 at 5:55 AM
Completata in Giappone la gigantesca caverna alta 93,7 metri che ospiterà l'esperimento Hyper-Kamiokande. Osserverà i neutrini provenienti dalle esplosioni di supernovae e analizzerà i fasci di neutrini prodotti dall’acceleratore J-PARC a 300 km di distanza
www.icrr.u-tokyo.ac.jp/prwps/wp-con...
www.icrr.u-tokyo.ac.jp/prwps/wp-con...
The one that actually looks the most like it could be a spa is probably Super-Kamiokande
August 27, 2026 at 6:27 PM
The one that actually looks the most like it could be a spa is probably Super-Kamiokande