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Except... we cannot predict how future folks will be able to use e.g. neutrinos to achieve some fantastic future tech. And apart from the sheer desire to 'unde
by GeorgeTirebiter 5y ago
Except... we cannot predict how future folks will be able to use e.g. neutrinos to achieve some fantastic future tech. And apart from the sheer desire to 'understand the world', physics research is giving future technologists some phenomena to (possibly) exploit.
- drdeca 5y agoI'm skeptical that future technologies will have much use for neutrinos specifically. Facts discovered via the study of neutrinos, that seems quite plausible, but I doubt there will ever be much use for neutrinos directly.
- rsynnott 5y agoWell, if you want _really_ low latency comms with somewhere approximately on the other side of the world, all you need is a very big particle accelerator, and a neutrino detector :) (or two of each, really). I'm sure the high frequency trading people would love it...
- amelius 5y agoThat would only speed it up by a factor of pi/2.
- rsynnott 5y agoAssuming a shortest possible fibre optic cable with 1c transmission speed (neither are particularly realistic). But yeah, I’m mostly joking. Tho you never know with the HFT people.
- sitkack 5y agoIt would also require no infrastructure between the emitter and the detector. Right now we lay little glass waveguides all over the seafloor to accomplish this, or put satellites in geo synchronous orbit and suffer the latency. Neutrino comms would be civilization transforming.
- dragonwriter 5y ago> Neutrino comms would be civilization transforming. Not, like, even 1% as much as the rest of the consequences of the breakthroughs in practical physics necessary for them would be, I suspect.