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Scientists Map Spiraling Light For Faster Net
Mark.JUK writes "Scientists working at New York's Institute of Ultrafast Spectroscopy and Lasers have discovered a new way of mapping the multiple higher channels / more complex light in an optical fibre, which could allow telecommunications operators the ability to harness 'untapped data channels' and thus improve broadband speeds and internet capacity across the world. Critically, the new model allows scientists to follow polarization and other changes as light travels, which also gives you an insight into the material that it travels through. Until recently it wasn't possible to map such light, but all that has changed thanks to the globe-shaped Higher Order Poincare Sphere model."
Even though many readers of slashdot are themselves globe shaped, they would rather spend their time trolling than looking at globe shaped models.
And how does it enable more spam and trolling?
I believe the intended logic was "more internet bandwidth == more internet traffic == more spam".
It's a special case of the standard Slashdot curmudgeon technique, where you demonstrate how experienced and knowledgable you are by interpreting any piece of potentially good news as definite bad news. If you do it enough times, you win a patch of lawn to keep children off of.
I don't care if it's 90,000 hectares. That lake was not my doing.
...and thus improve broadband speeds and internet capacity across the rest of the world outside of the United States!....
FTFY. I think there is more than enough evidence to point to the fact that shitty boradband speeds in the United States are due to politics, greed, corruption, and outright laziness more than a lack of technology.
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Great, and the big providers will still cap us to cable speeds from a decade ago and charge for overages!
Be very, very careful what you put into that head, because you will never, ever get it out. -Thomas Cardinal Wolsey
...thanks to the globe-shaped Higher Order Poincare Sphere model.
Here's to HOPS!
Actually that's not entirely true, the primary reason for our unused fiber is lack of the open access agreements/requirements which other countries have instated.
The cost of merely testing it before bringing it online could very well be financially infeasible.
You going to cite that? Because I have trouble believing it.
And porn. Don't forget porn.
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The implies there is a spammer somewhere saying "I would spam, but the bandwidth isn't quite there yet."
The Kruger Dunning explains most post on
this is a fast application of the Poincare conjecture. It was only solved a few years ago.
Now light-speed communications are even faster, since they raised the speed of light in 2011!
-- You are in a maze of little, twisty passages, all different... --
http://prl.aps.org/abstract/PRL/v107/i5/e053601