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Beams of neutrinos have been proposed as a vehicle for communications under unusual circumstances, such as direct point-to-point global communication, communication with submarines, secure communications and interstellar communication. We report on the performance of a low-rate communications link established using the NuMI beam line and the MINERvA detector at Fermilab. 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.
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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
> 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] https://imagine.gsfc.nasa.gov/features/cosmic/earth_info.htm...
[b] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Earth%27s_circumference
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
> 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
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)
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?
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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