Scientists Route Email Via Neutrinos
Scientists at Fermilab in Batavia, Illinois have successfully delivered e-mail through 780 feet of solid rock using a beam of neutrino. Neutrinos are particles with close to zero mass and neutral charge which allows them to travel through matter with least interference.
The experiment was held at the NuMI particle accelerator, which is a sub-division of Fermi Lab facility. The neutrino beam was directed into the MINERvA | MINERvA: Bringing neutrinos into sharp focus at a distance of 0.6 miles in a cavern 300 feet underground. The transmitted message was a single word 'neutrino' and was encoded in binary.
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The successful result implies a new way to send electronic messages other than the ways of text messages or e-mail that we use currently. Though an interesting alternate way, on the downside, the cost of sending messages through neutrino beams turns out to be an extremely expensive method and requires a huge network of neutrino generation, neutrino acceleration as well as detection. Add to that, MINERvA is able to detect only one in 10 billion neutrinos, which means the researchers have to send a vast number of neutrino beams just to spell out even one word.
Neutrinos were also believed to have broken the speed of light last year with the OPERA experiment but that theory has been expelled after European researchers carried experiments recently that proved otherwise. Einstein’s famous theory of relativity has hence stood the test, justifying that the speed of light in a vacuum is still the ultimate speed limit and as of now nothing in the universe travels faster.
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The experiment was held at the NuMI particle accelerator, which is a sub-division of Fermi Lab facility. The neutrino beam was directed into the MINERvA | MINERvA: Bringing neutrinos into sharp focus at a distance of 0.6 miles in a cavern 300 feet underground. The transmitted message was a single word 'neutrino' and was encoded in binary.
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The successful result implies a new way to send electronic messages other than the ways of text messages or e-mail that we use currently. Though an interesting alternate way, on the downside, the cost of sending messages through neutrino beams turns out to be an extremely expensive method and requires a huge network of neutrino generation, neutrino acceleration as well as detection. Add to that, MINERvA is able to detect only one in 10 billion neutrinos, which means the researchers have to send a vast number of neutrino beams just to spell out even one word.
Neutrinos were also believed to have broken the speed of light last year with the OPERA experiment but that theory has been expelled after European researchers carried experiments recently that proved otherwise. Einstein’s famous theory of relativity has hence stood the test, justifying that the speed of light in a vacuum is still the ultimate speed limit and as of now nothing in the universe travels faster.
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