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A group of scientists has managed to send a message using neutrinos for the first time:
http://www.rochester.edu/news/show.php?id=4022

Compared to sound or electromagnetic waves (including light) this has many advantages as neutrinos can travel through almost anything (including whole planets!). Of course, practical applications are a bit far into the future yet, but it looks promising.

For example, a neutrino signal could travel thought a very intense storm without distortions. I remember an episode in TNG where La Forge was trapped in the surface of a planet along with a Romulan and in the end managed to send a signal using neutrons instead of regular E/M waves. Of course a neutron is very different from a neutrino (the former is a hadron the latter a lepton) but the idea is similar :cool:

Some info on neutrinos:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Neutrinos

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Science along with Star Trek never fails to impress me :)


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Very Cool.

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I would have responded sooner but I was trying to do it with neutrinos.
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Kenneth_of_Borg wrote:
I would have responded sooner but I was trying to do it with neutrinos. :borg:
Well, my neutrino detector is down at the moment, so in any case I wouldn't have received the message :razz:

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You guys.... :mischief: :cardassian:

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Talking about neutrinos, there was a paper out today by the same team (called Opera) who a few months back said that they found superluminal neutrinos, thus violating Special Relativity. Apparently, there was some error due to a faulty connection in the GPS system used to measure the time and the new result is now consistent with Relativity :romulan: :
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dt=0.3 plus/minus 4 plus/minus 9 ns
where dt is the difference of the observed and the expected time of arrival (with the later assuming that their velocity is equal to the speed of light in vacuum =3*10^5 km/sec). Also, a "ns" (nanosecond) is equal to a billionth of a second, or 10^-9 secs.

More details at:
http://arxiv.org/ftp/arxiv/papers/1203/1203.3433.pdf

If superluminal neutrinos existed, that would have been the start of FTL communications, but apparently we will have to wait a while :gripe:

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I know people that can find fault with what I am doing even before I do it. If that is not faster than the speed of light then what the hey.
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Ha! Hehehehehe :romulan: Isn't that the truth. The proof has been with us all along.

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