Every signal goes around the Earth.Neutrinos go straight through.
No cables. No barriers.
A neutrino passes through ocean, rock and iron core as if none of it were there — a straight line no cable can take. DoubleZero is putting $100K behind the beams, detectors and protocols that turn it into a working channel.
Pooled across every proposal in the call
0.0 ms earlier, every message
Proof of principle
The current world record is 0.1 bits per second.
A neutrino beam has carried a digital message exactly once. Everything past that point is unclaimed.
One word cost 40 bits and 6 min 40 s. A 170-tonne detector caught 0.81 neutrinos per pulse; everything else went straight through it.
- 240 m
- of solid rock
- 1%
- error rate
- 1.035 km
- baseline
- 1
- message, ever
The LHC's forward detectors saw collider neutrinos for the first time. TeV-scale, tightly collimated, on a beamline that already runs — and at that energy the receiver shrinks by orders of magnitude.
The source exists. The detector exists. Nobody has aimed one at the other.
Where your money goes
The experiments you’re funding.
The barmore bandwidth · less latency · or both
- Track 01
Neutrino communication
From a one-word proof to higher rates, longer baselines and a deployable link.
- Comms demos on collider neutrino experiments
- Detector sensitivity and miniaturization
- Compact, relocatable surface or underwater receivers
- High-flux collimated beams, including laser-driven
- Cosmic-ray and near-horizon muon backgrounds
- Encoding and error correction at ultra-low rates
- End-to-end link modeling, pole to pole
- Track 02
Other exotic modalities
Neutrinos are the clearest first example, not the only one.
- Muon sensing and signaling, detectors and timing
- Other weakly-interacting particles or fields as carriers
- Transmitter concepts that shrink the beam source
- Synchronization and signal recovery for any low-rate channel
- Track 03
Systems, theory and feasibility
The rigor underneath: whether the numbers actually close.
- Latency modeling against real fiber and microwave routes
- Information-theoretic limits for exotic channels
- Protocol design at the edge of detectability
- Engineering and cost pathways to deployable systems
No major technology company is pursuing this. Infrastructure this new does not come from incumbents.
Live proposals
Back the call, not one paper.
One contribution, spread across every open proposal in the call by remaining need.
The Neuroimaging Research LabSelf-Validating Spectral Decoding for Ultra-Low-Rate Neutrino Communication
Beyond Electromagnetic Communication: Topological Signal Recovery for Exotic Modalities in High-Noise Environments
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Your contribution is pooled across every open proposal in this call. Non-extractive: no cut is taken from your gift.
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