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All technical issues set a part, beams of neutrinos sounds like an excellent way to transmit information. A beam travelling at the speed of light, trough matter

All technical issues set a part, beams of neutrinos sounds like an excellent way to transmit information. A beam travelling at the speed of light, trough matter - without any interaction or distortion when passing trough. Goodbye satellites and fiber-optic cables, we can now transmit ones and zeroes straight trough mother earth.

ceejayoz 15y ago
Sure, but how are you going to receive them? Packet loss would seem to be an issue.
- torstesu 15y ago
  Indeed. The detector, or receiver, I imagine would have to detect variations in the density of neutrons. Given a large enough density range, one could assign different ranges to different integers. Still a technical issue disclaimer attached.
Zaak 15y ago
A side effect of a compact neutrino detector would be the immediate obsolescence of all nuclear submarines.
ChuckMcM 15y ago
"Other than that Mrs. Lincoln, how did you like the play?" The technical issues are what make your question go from whimsical to silly. The article describes just how difficult it is to create neutrino's going in the direction you want them to go in the first place, then interacting with them once they exist and are headed in the right direction. For any sort of communication to occur using neutrinos you would need to reliably be able to modulate them at the source end and de-modulate them at the destination. There was a "paper" (and I put that in quotes because it wasn't even a modest piece of reasoning) that proposed neutrinos as the medium by which extra-sensory perception (ESP) was created. Neutrinos passing through the brain of subject A being modulated by their thoughts and then detected in the brain of subject B. At least with this setup at Fermilab you could set up an experiment to test that hypothesis by having your subjects sit in the beamline. (something the paper did not provide was any way to experimentally testing their theories).

ceejayoz 15y ago

Sure, but how are you going to receive them? Packet loss would seem to be an issue.

torstesu 15y ago
Indeed. The detector, or receiver, I imagine would have to detect variations in the density of neutrons. Given a large enough density range, one could assign different ranges to different integers. Still a technical issue disclaimer attached.

Zaak 15y ago

A side effect of a compact neutrino detector would be the immediate obsolescence of all nuclear submarines.

ChuckMcM 15y ago

"Other than that Mrs. Lincoln, how did you like the play?" The technical issues are what make your question go from whimsical to silly. The article describes just how difficult it is to create neutrino's going in the direction you want them to go in the first place, then interacting with them once they exist and are headed in the right direction. For any sort of communication to occur using neutrinos you would need to reliably be able to modulate them at the source end and de-modulate them at the destination. There was a "paper" (and I put that in quotes because it wasn't even a modest piece of reasoning) that proposed neutrinos as the medium by which extra-sensory perception (ESP) was created. Neutrinos passing through the brain of subject A being modulated by their thoughts and then detected in the brain of subject B. At least with this setup at Fermilab you could set up an experiment to test that hypothesis by having your subjects sit in the beamline. (something the paper did not provide was any way to experimentally testing their theories).