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Demonstration of Communication using Neutrinos — mentioned by godelski

Sun, 26 Oct 2025 06:09:51 GMT

Honestly, the military would probably come after you first. Or maybe an oil company? Frankly because if you could detect neutrinos at that resolution you would be able to produce a really good mapping of... just about anything. From the inside of the Earth to the inside of a secret military facility on the opposite side of the planet. Not to mention you've also invented a communication device that is essentially unjammable[0]. Sufficient to say that you'd be very popular, but in probably the least fun way possible. [0] https://arxiv.org/abs/1203.2847

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Demonstration of Communication using Neutrinos — mentioned by JumpCrisscross

Wed, 14 Aug 2024 13:18:48 GMT

> they could tweet-by-neutrino in near real-time We demonstrated in 2012 a neutrino-based link which “achieved a decoded data rate of 0.1 bits/sec with a bit error rate of 1% over a distance of 1.035 km, including 240 m of earth” [1]. To put that into perspective, a through-the-core beam would reach its antipode about 24 milliseconds before its circumnavigating partner [2]. [1] https://arxiv.org/abs/1203.2847 [2] assuming a spherical earth with diameter 12 756 km [a] and circumference 40,075 km [b], and thus distance difference of 7 282 km, and a speed of light of 300mm m/s [a]…

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Demonstration of Communication using Neutrinos — mentioned by cozzyd

Sat, 13 Nov 2021 04:23:53 GMT

https://arxiv.org/abs/1203.2847

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Demonstration of Communication using Neutrinos — mentioned by retzkek

Fri, 12 Nov 2021 22:09:45 GMT

It was actually demonstrated (over relatively short distance) using the MINERvA detector at Fermilab: https://arxiv.org/abs/1203.2847

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Demonstration of Communication using Neutrinos — mentioned by retzkek

Thu, 04 Feb 2021 23:01:29 GMT

The MINERvA experiment at Fermilab already demonstrated communication with neutrinos, admittedly over short distance: "The link achieved a decoded data rate of 0.1 bits/sec with a bit error rate of 1% over a distance of 1.035 km, including 240 m of earth." https://arxiv.org/abs/1203.2847 Anyone from an HFT firm who wants to look into a partnership researching a neutrino link to the CME data center feel free to reach out :)

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Demonstration of Communication using Neutrinos — mentioned by ben_w

Tue, 24 Apr 2018 09:09:14 GMT

Remote monitoring nuclear reactors for signs of weapons development: http://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.1088/1742-6596/593/1/01... Communication through any obstacles, including (in principle) the entire diameter of the planet: https://arxiv.org/abs/1203.2847

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Demonstration of Communication using Neutrinos — mentioned by wmf

Sun, 21 Jan 2018 20:13:54 GMT

But you can produce them artificially. https://arxiv.org/abs/1203.2847

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Demonstration of Communication using Neutrinos — HN submission

Sun, 08 Oct 2017 12:07:45 GMT

Demonstration of Communication using Neutrinos (2012)

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Demonstration of Communication using Neutrinos — mentioned by dukwon

Fri, 23 Jun 2017 12:08:03 GMT

> Has neutrino-based signalling been achieved or is it still a research topic? An accelerator- or reactor-based neutrino experiment can detect whether the source is on or off, so in principle you can send binary information. This has been demonstrated using NuMI/MINERvA [1]. It's more of a novelty than anything practical. [1] https://arxiv.org/abs/1203.2847

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Demonstration of Communication using Neutrinos — mentioned by allenz

Mon, 10 Aug 2015 19:18:00 GMT

The immediate problem is that you need to send a huge number of neutrinos to be able to detect anything, so cost and bandwidth are prohibitive. In the proof of concept cited in your link, the experimenters used a 120 GeV beam to send a 0.1 bits/sec signal. (http://arxiv.org/abs/1203.2847)

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Demonstration of Communication using Neutrinos — mentioned by biggus_dictus

Fri, 16 Mar 2012 06:08:26 GMT

I understand that you read about a "a neutrino network that would transmit directly through the Earth, for true point-to-point communication," but you obviously didn't read the paper. Here it is. http://arxiv.org/abs/1203.2847 It's a proof-of-principle. A stunning achievement, no doubt. But it's hardly a practical option for communication, "The link achieved a decoded data rate of 0.1 bits/sec with a bit error rate of 1% over a distance of 1.035 km, including 240 m of earth." Ant colonies? WTF?

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