On Fri, 23 Mar 2012 13:16:59 -0700, George Herbert said: > The physics is not conducive to improving the situation a lot. > > There's probably $1.5 billion in the ground already in neutrino > detectors; the total combined detector bit rate is pretty poor. One > experiment looking at neutrinos coming off the Fermilab accelerator > had 473 million accelerator pulses with under 1.1 million detected > neutrinos.
Note that each pulse was probably millions or even billions of neutrinos, so the detection rate was even worse than you'd think. I saw a statistic that every second, 50 trillion neutrinos pass through your body. And the number that will interact is well into the single digits.
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