> <i>I truly understand why HFts have expressed interest in neutrinos: the fastest technology available to link different exchanges is microwave, but microwave need towers/dishes above the ground, and the world is a sphere, so you have to deal with the curve of the Earth, and because of the curve HFTs are losing time. Too bad. Mother Nature is not helping.</i><p>Well, then they should go and build themselves a vacuum tube; their microwaves will fly faster :).
Yeah right, 'HFT' are so capable of immediately grasping a (potential) fundamental physics change and immediately wishing the results into useful networking hardware.<p>Then it turns out it could have been an oscillator or optical fiber problem, so this line drawn of interest is timid at best and totally unfounded.<p>Terrible article.
What is this incoherent rambling about the LCH and stock trading?<p>Measuring particle accelerators by length doesn't make sense, and I highly doubt that particles in the LHC travel faster than microwaves in air.