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Man, I love looking at pictures of neutron detectors. I’d love to go inside one sometime or dive inside some of them.
Oh, totally!
Maybe bring a bed, chill for a while, talk to neutrinos.
The perfectly silent dream:
Within cells interlinked.
Bear in mind that the ultrapure water used in these things behave like an acid. There is a story of a dropped wrench, the remains of which were later found to have been completely dissolved.
I don't think humans will suffer the same type of ion exchange that a wrench might from ultrapure water. Don't drink from the pool and I bet you'd be perfectly safe. Someone has to have an MSDS we can check to see if it's safe.
I have trouble comprehending the size of the IceCube detector in Antarctica, which is one cubic kilometer big.