If anyone was wondering how some of that heavy stuff gets to the south pole to build such a large engineering project, at the farthest possible end of any logistics chain:

https://www.google.com/search?client=firefox-b-d&q=south+pol...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/South_Pole_Traverse

https://octanepress.com/content/south-pole-traverse_antartic...

Significant amounts of things still come in by air cargo at great cost, but a lot also comes the long slow way.

Okay but how is this useful to humanity (since thats part of the prizes condition)? Its cool that we can detect them but...now what?

> produced when a charged particle moves with speeds larger then the speed of light in the medium.

Thanks, I had no idea this was possible!

https://xkcd.com/1053/

The Telescope in the Ice was a solid book about this.

https://www.amazon.com/dp/1137280085

I read all of that and other resources online and still couldn't understand why the hell we need to build that and especially in south pole antartica

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> which are then detected via Cherenkov radiation which is produced when a charged particle moves with speeds larger then the speed of light in the medium. (That is only possible because it is less than the speed of light in vacuum which cannot be exceeded.)

I have been researching applications of FTL as well;

Where is there an actual vacuum on Earth or in microgravity? So, there are Proca waves within dielectric Proca metamaterials and plasmas and waveguides; and photons can have effective mass and/or longitudinal charge Ez in ionized plasma?

So, Maxwellian waves with no longitudinal (Ez,) component can exist in what fraction of the universe if they can only exist in a vacuum?

A Twistor model can model such;