In 1844 Samuel Morse sent a telegram from Washington, D.C., to Baltimore using pulses of electrons to encode “What hath God wrought.” Now that message has gotten a reply, courtesy of physicist Kevin McFarland and a team of his colleagues.
Kevin McFarland, a physicist who sent a message using neutrinos, left his mark on the MINERvA detector.
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