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> [Y]ou are getting over 100bn CPM right now. The reason it doesn't matter is that this is neutrinos and they're not interacting with you.

I mean, if you actually had a neutrino detector that produced 10e10 CPM over your cross-section, then it would matter for you, because particle physicists would kidnap you to learn the secret :)

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Honestly, the military would probably come after you first. Or maybe an oil company? Frankly because if you could detect neutrinos at that resolution you would be able to produce a really good mapping of... just about anything. From the inside of the Earth to the inside of a secret military facility on the opposite side of the planet. Not to mention you've also invented a communication device that is essentially unjammable[0].

Sufficient to say that you'd be very popular, but in probably the least fun way possible.

[0] https://arxiv.org/abs/1203.2847

It would be a very up-close-and-personal variation of the resource curse.

This is exactly why no one can know my alter-ego is… Neutrino Man.

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