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Beaming Neutrinos Through Earth?

Posted by michael on from the death-ray dept.

TheMatt writes: "An article at PhysicsWeb talks about a proposed project by scientists at FermiLab. The project would involve sending a beam of neutrinos 10,000 km through the earth to a detector at SuperKamiokande. The hope is that passing through so much matter would alter the beam enough to better study CP (charge-parity) violation."

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  1. ping time by isorox · · Score: 3, Funny

    If we send a message through the earth, rather then arround, we cut our latency by 1/3 - and thats ignoring and routers enroute. This could revolutionize quake!

  2. In the future ... by jquiroga · · Score: 4, Funny

    In the future, just after contacting with alien civilizations, we humans will be able to chat with the aliens about all the funny physics experiments we came up with, and ask them if they also carried them out. Imagine the conversations:

    Human: By the way, did you try to beam neutrinos across your planet and gain some insights into the charge-parity violation? We based all our theories on the results of that revolutionary experiment.

    Alien (translated): Yes, being there, done that, half an eon ago. And you got it wrong, see, this "y = i++;" is really "y = ++i". You should have abandoned C long ago.

    Human: Ohhh... I see (damn!)

  3. Re:Um, isn't this how they blew up Kryton? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Funny

    Last I checked Kryton was fine. Head still shaped like an eraser, though.