[dalke]

People are building the Atlantic Fibre Optic Cable connecting Europe to the US, in part to reduce latency. The obvious question is, is someone willing to pay a LOT of money for a low-latency, low-bandwidth connection from Sydney to NYC? The Great Circle minimum time of light in fiber is 74.6ms, while neutrinos (which travel at almost the speed of light) going through the Earth's diameter take 42ms.

Thus, you could cut the time in half if you could use neutrinos.

[marvin]

Yeah, location arbitrage. There is no way to trade equities faster and on better information than if you're faster than everyone else. Having this 30ms advantage will give whomever has it a huge advantage.

[joering2]

+1. Thanks. Didnt see it this way.