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Not just submarines--assuming that the beam can be as focused as necessary, you could even have lightspeed communication with the other side of the world, albei
by DarkShikari 17y ago
Not just submarines--assuming that the beam can be as focused as necessary, you could even have lightspeed communication with the other side of the world, albeit at a very low bitrate.
- dspeyer 17y agoAbsolutely. Current latency from New York to Tai Pei is about 210ms. With neutrinos it would be under 80ms. And immune to earthquakes and undersea mudslides. It would also be a lot easier to build emitters and detectors on land than in submarines.
- duskwuff 17y agoBut what applications are there for a low-bitrate-low-latency link?
- DarkShikari 17y agoHigh-frequency trading/arbitrage?
- duskwuff 17y agoEven considering how lucrative HFT can be, I'm not sure it's quite gone to the point that we should be expecting to hear about the Goldman-Sachs Particle Accelerator anytime soon.
- pvg 17y agoFocusing a beam of particles that can fly through a planetful of stuff without interacting with anything is a little difficult - the beam is generated in the relevant direction. The NuMI facility that generates the beam mentioned is several hundred meters in length - not something that's easy to point at arbitrary parts of the world.
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- idlewords 17y agoThere was a nice paper a few years back suggesting essentially the same thing as a method for detonating other people's nukes: http://arxiv.org/abs/hep-ph/0305062 http://arxiv.org/abs/hep-ph/0305062