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Article #880Re: Neutrino Tomography
From: David Govett
Date: Tue, 22 Mar 1988 21:59
Date: Tue, 22 Mar 1988 21:59
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> In article <7831@agate.BERKELEY.EDU> weemba@garnet.berkeley.edu (Obnoxious Math Grad Student) writes: > >(1) De Rujula, Weinstein, and others have proposed to use Tev-Pev neutrinos > > for doing whole earth tomography. One Earth diameter of rock and iron > > should be just the right distance. Earthquake prediction and the like > > would surely benefit. This requires SSC-level energies. Their actual > > proposals get further out: for maximum tomography benefit, they want to > > try floating the SSC out at sea! I posted a short description with > > references about a year ago. > > > Now this is fascinating, and deserves to be split out into a separate > subject. It seems to me that what you really need to do for this is to > put your SSC in orbit. > -- What would you use to detect neutrinos? Also, what kind of image would you obtain if there were no interaction between the earth and the stream of neutrinos? If a miniature detector could be built, transterran communication would be possible.
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Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!utzoo!mnetor!uunet!lll-winken!lll-lcc!pyramid!octopus!avsd!govett From: govett@avsd.UUCP (David Govett) Newsgroups: sci.misc Subject: Re: Neutrino Tomography Message-ID: <53@avsd.UUCP> Date: 22 Mar 88 21:59:43 GMT References: <73600013@uiucdcsp> <7831@agate.BERKELEY.EDU> <240@unisv.UUCP> Organization: Ampex Advanced Technology Division, Redwood City, CA Lines: 20