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What's faster than satellite communication? Neutrinos baby Not even sure if that's worth doing, either create/emit or use encode data into them as they fly by to be received by someone else Edit: that's cool people have tried though
What's faster than satellite communication? Neutrinos baby Not even sure if that's worth doing, either create/emit or use encode data into them as they fly by to be received by someone else Edit: that's cool people have tried though
Neutrinos can go straight through the Earth, yes, but since they have mass their velocity is less than c.
The drawback is the impractical size and cost of a receiver.
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So, according to basic Ant-Man theory, if I were hit by one of these, it should be like getting all that (10% of a) ping pong ball energy concentrated in a tiny spot, causing me to fly backwards across the room?
I would expect it to be more likely to punch through skin than to actually propel you. But also neutrinos don't typically collide with things very easily, they're more likely to pass through you without you ever knowing.
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This particle spread this energy through a volume of seawater a few km deep in the Mediterranean. It's going to raise the temperature of that volume a few billionths of a degree, if that. So, no, we can't.
What if our existing solar panels are optimized to detect these? Then will it improve the quality of solar panels to capture more energy from sunlight as well? Sorry, I'm no expert in this - asking more of a curiosity.
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So, according to basic Ant-Man theory, if I were hit by one of these, it should be like getting all that (10% of a) ping pong ball energy concentrated in a tiny spot, causing me to fly backwards across the room?
I would expect it to be more likely to punch through skin than to actually propel you. But also neutrinos don't typically collide with things very easily, they're more likely to pass through you without you ever knowing.
In the wrong spot, this sounds to me like it kills you?
Nothing to be afraid of, of course, for the reason you mentioned. Just wondering, xkcd "what if" style
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One of the lead researchers in KM3NeT mentioned that the particle was emitting 2 horse power in light during detector transit. A typical body builder expends about 1 horse power while performing, so its 2 body builders in a single particle.
Fun fact, a typical horse exerts about 1 horse power of usable work while performing. That's so weird, I'm sure almost no one would've been able to guess that - but it's true. (To be clear, that's sustained effort over time, not just momentary. Athletically trained humans can do about 1 HP of peak momentary effort, and around 0.3 HP if sustained over time.)
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One of the lead researchers in KM3NeT mentioned that the particle was emitting 2 horse power in light during detector transit. A typical body builder expends about 1 horse power while performing, so its 2 body builders in a single particle.
So, 2,000 milliSchwarzeneggers if we use SI units?
> This means that they should be typeset in the same character set as other common nouns (e.g. Latin alphabet in English, Cyrillic script in Russian, etc.), following the usual grammatical and orthographical rules of the context language. For example, in English and French, even when the unit is named after a person and its symbol begins with a capital letter, the unit name in running text should start with a lowercase letter (e.g., newton, hertz, pascal) and is capitalised only at the beginning of a sentence and in headings and publication titles.
[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/International_System_of_Units#...
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So, according to basic Ant-Man theory, if I were hit by one of these, it should be like getting all that (10% of a) ping pong ball energy concentrated in a tiny spot, causing me to fly backwards across the room?
Isn't Ant-Man logic that he still has the same mass when he shrinks and, as such, can generate the same force? Unless you get thrown back by ping pong balls normally, I think you'd be fine.