From Wil Hadden
Talking of neutrino communications, Maury Goodman says, “Any intended recipient would have to be in a fixed place for a long time. If they knew they had to do that, you could probably tell them some other way” (17 April, p 36). While this may mean such a system would not be suitable for mobile communications, it is not relevant to what I would see neutrino communications eventually being used for.
I work for an international communications company and if I could go to any of our clients and tell them that they could replace their fixed multiplexors (communications hubs) and hundreds of miles of cables with a single pair of neutrino transmitters and receivers, they would jump at the chance. Not to mention how it could speed up transatlantic communications without laying costly cabling. And come to think of it, houses don’t usually move that much either…
Greenisland, County Antrim, UK
