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The First Universal Quantum Network
MrSeb writes "German scientists at the Max Planck Institute of Quantum Optics have created the first 'universal quantum network' that could be feasibly scaled up to become a quantum internet. So far their quantum network only spans two labs spaced 21 meters apart, but the scientists stress that longer distances and multiple nodes are possible. The network's construction is ingenious: Each node is represented by a single rubidium atom, trapped inside a reflective optical cavity. These atoms communicate with each other by emitting a single photon over an optical fiber. Each atom is a quantum bit — a qubit — and the polarization of the photon emitted carries the quantum state of the qubit. The receiving qubit absorbs the photon and takes on the quantum state of the transmitter. Voila: A network of qubits that can send, receive, and store quantum information. In another, probably more exciting test, the emitted photons were actually used to entangle the rubidium atoms."
It means that one day people will learn the difference between its and it's. Ah, to dream....
So "Never", then?
bah.
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When Fascism comes to America, it will call itself Anti-Fascism, and tell you to give up your guns.
It means that traceroute will be able to tell you response times or router addresses but not both.
Any insufficiently advanced magic is indistinguishable from technology.
But you'll have no way of telling whether a video is Goatse or not-Goatse until you watch it and collapse the state vector.
But you'll have no way of telling whether a video is Goatse or not-Goatse until you watch it and collapse the state vector.
Ah, Schrodinger's Goatse. Brought to you be the intersection of quantum mechanics and 4chan. Where physics and the dark, underbelly of the internet meet, even brave men fear to tread.