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by dotnet00 782 days ago
For the gravitational wave background, maybe with LISA we might be able to get a glimpse, but the neutrino background seems like it'd take some truly unprecedented breakthroughs in our ability to detect neutrinos to have any chance of mapping it out.
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Funny, in reading up on both, I had higher hopes for the gravitational waves.

It seems like GWB is a superposition of infinite overlapping waves that would be impossible to single out and "unwind" in order to form a map.

And big bang neutrinos are very weak, which makes them undetectable. My assumption was we'd need a breakthrough in measurement sensitivity but is there more to it?

Naive thought - can a subsurface detector on the moon serve as an ultracold shielded scenario?