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From: vanpelt@unisv.UUCP (Mike Van Pelt)
Newsgroups: sci.misc
Subject: Neutrino Tomography
Message-ID: <240@unisv.UUCP>
Date: 21 Mar 88 20:16:29 GMT
References: <73600013@uiucdcsp> <7831@agate.BERKELEY.EDU>
Reply-To: vanpelt%unisv@ubvax.ub.com (Mike Van Pelt)
Organization: Unisys Silicon Valley, San Jose, CA
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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.
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