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Serious answer: because bandwidth is terrible. A transmitter the size of the LHC can only produce enough neutrinos (a few quadrillion per second) for a detector to receive a hundred per second or so. Accounting for noise, that means you can only achieve a few bytes per second at best, and again, that's with using the LHC to produce the neutrinos in the first place. With far less power you could instead use ultra-low frequency radio waves and still get better bandwidth.


You’d think the HFT lot would jump at the chance to knock 100ms off Singapore to New York.


That's assuming the LHC has less latency than 100ms.




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