{"id":3417,"date":"2012-03-15T18:26:33","date_gmt":"2012-03-15T23:26:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/?p=3417"},"modified":"2012-03-15T18:47:59","modified_gmt":"2012-03-15T23:47:59","slug":"researchers-send-instant-message-with-neutrinos","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/?p=3417","title":{"rendered":"Researchers send instant message with neutrinos"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p>\u201cUsing neutrinos, it would be possible to communicate between any two points on Earth without using satellites or cables,\u201d said Dan Stancil, professor of electrical and computer engineering at NC State and lead author of a paper describing the research. \u201cNeutrino communication systems would be much more complicated than today\u2019s systems, but may have important strategic uses.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>via <a href=\"http:\/\/scienceblog.com\/52770\/researchers-send-wireless-message-using-elusive-particles\/\">Researchers send instant message with neutrinos | ScienceBlog.com<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>From <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Neutrino_detector\">Wiki<\/a>.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>A <strong>neutrino detector<\/strong> is a physics apparatus designed to study <a title=\"Neutrino\" href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Neutrino\">neutrinos<\/a>. Because neutrinos are only <a title=\"Weak interaction\" href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Weak_interaction\">weakly interacting<\/a> with other particles of matter, neutrino detectors must be very large in order to detect a significant number of neutrinos. Neutrino detectors are often built underground to isolate the detector from <a title=\"Cosmic ray\" href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Cosmic_ray\">cosmic rays<\/a> and other background radiation.<sup id=\"cite_ref-twsP16_0-0\"><a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Neutrino_detector#cite_note-twsP16-0\">[1]<\/a><\/sup> The field of <a title=\"Neutrino astronomy\" href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Neutrino_astronomy\">neutrino astronomy<\/a> is still very much in its infancy \u2013 the only confirmed extraterrestrial sources so far are the <a title=\"Sun\" href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Sun\">Sun<\/a> and <a title=\"SN1987A\" href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/SN1987A\">supernova SN1987A<\/a>. Neutrino observatories will &#8220;give astronomers fresh eyes with which to study the universe.&#8221;<sup id=\"cite_ref-twsP14_1-0\"><a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Neutrino_detector#cite_note-twsP14-1\">[2]<\/a><\/sup><\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u201cUsing neutrinos, it would be possible to communicate between any two points on Earth without using satellites or cables,\u201d said Dan Stancil, professor of electrical and computer engineering at NC State and lead author of a paper describing the research. &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/?p=3417\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[110],"tags":[100],"class_list":["post-3417","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-networking","tag-interesting-research"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3417","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3417"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3417\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3419,"href":"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3417\/revisions\/3419"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3417"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3417"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3417"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}