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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
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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.