[151529] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: $1.5 billion: The cost of cutting London-Tokyo latency by 60ms
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Valdis.Kletnieks@vt.edu)
Fri Mar 23 17:15:38 2012
To: George Herbert <george.herbert@gmail.com>
In-Reply-To: Your message of "Fri, 23 Mar 2012 13:16:59 -0700."
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From: Valdis.Kletnieks@vt.edu
Date: Fri, 23 Mar 2012 17:14:17 -0400
Cc: NANOG list <nanog@nanog.org>
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On Fri, 23 Mar 2012 13:16:59 -0700, George Herbert said:
> The physics is not conducive to improving the situation a lot.
>
> There's probably $1.5 billion in the ground already in neutrino
> detectors; the total combined detector bit rate is pretty poor. One
> experiment looking at neutrinos coming off the Fermilab accelerator
> had 473 million accelerator pulses with under 1.1 million detected
> neutrinos.
Note that each pulse was probably millions or even billions of neutrinos, so
the detection rate was even worse than you'd think. I saw a statistic that
every second, 50 trillion neutrinos pass through your body. And the number
that will interact is well into the single digits.
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