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Hailing Frequencies Open? Communication Via Neutrinos Tested Successfully
Lt. Uhura communicating on Star Trek. Image from Uhura.com
In science fiction – like in Star Trek, for example — interstellar communication was never a problem; all you had to do was have Urhura open up hailing frequencies to Starfleet command. But in the real universe, communicating between star systems poses a dilemma with current radio technology. There’s also a very real problem today for operating spacecraft in that communications are impossible when a planetary body is blocking the signal. One of the more outlandish methods proposed for solving deep space communication problems has been to devise a technique using neutrinos. But now, it turns out, using neutrinos for communication might not be that crazy of an idea: communicating with neutrinos has, for the first time, been tested successfully.
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Post tags: Fermilab, Iinterstellar Communications, Neutrinos
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