Comments by "Pete Venuti" (@petevenuti7355) on "How Physicists Discovered The Demon Particle - EXPLAINED" video.

If they technically have no mass that means they can transmit information at the actual speed of light in a vacuum not 60% of the speed of light like in a cable or 90% like a fiber optic. It might be a means to create even lower latency faster then fiber internet without the need for elon's free space optical laser connected satellites!
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@DrBenMiles I just realized I do the same thing, I also mispronounce the Linux process and my friend Damien's name , I think I emphasize the phantom differences just to distinguish between them despite how much they have in common.
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@tommapar sure it's counterintuitive, but there's actually less latency with a satellite link. Because the speed of light in a vacuum is faster than the speed of light in a wire or fiber optic. Space satalites are not really far away . Also it's a straight line direct line of sight to satellites, not meandering all over the Earth up and down and all around. When doing stock market trades those few milliseconds less latency can make millions of dollars, that's why millionaires pay millions for those kinds of connections. In practice you'll notice a lot more latency for an ordinary user when using a satellite link but that's just because it tends to be somewhat oversubscribed for our lower bandwidth teer.
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@placeholder7753 first off let me address a communication issue, when I say light I mean the entire electromagnetic spectrum not just the optical range. Also I'm talking from the perspective that starlink's long range intersatellite free space optical laser links were actually 100% operational to compare against eliminating repeated ground station repeating. (Was that redundant 😜). The second assumption was I was thinking in terms of low orbital satellites not geosynchronous or anything. You were also grossly underestimating the relative distance between the fractal like surface distance of cable meandering across the surface of the planet relative to the only 100 km of atmosphere. And you can look up the difference between the speed of light in fiber versus air , vs space. And if you were talking coax, the speed of light could be as slow as 70% of that in vacuum! Just look it up you'll find I'm correct! However I do acknowledge that there are many real world practical limitations with satellite communication that result in a much slower actual experience.
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@placeholder7753 if starlinks free space optical intersatellite links were completely implemented and bug-free, and you were the only one using the network from 1 ground station to another, you would probably have 10% Less latency. Like the difference between 90 and 100 MS. I think that only matters to stock market traders that trade in hundreds of millions of dollars at a time.
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