No, they are not wasting their time...because they aren't trying to send information faster than c.
The computational benefits of entanglement have nothing to do with sending information at high speeds. It's mostly about doing many different calculations (factoring, searches, etc) simultaneously.
The only place where QM plays into something like networking is where it is used to create bullet proof connections between two boxes (for something like a bank transfer). Check out: http://www.magiqtech.com/
In conclusion, NOTHING goes faster than the speed of light. Period.
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No, they are not wasting their time...because they aren't trying to send information faster than c. The computational benefits of entanglement have nothing to do with sending information at high speeds. It's mostly about doing many different calculations (factoring, searches, etc) simultaneously. The only place where QM plays into something like networking is where it is used to create bullet proof connections between two boxes (for something like a bank transfer). Check out: http://www.magiqtech.com/ In conclusion, NOTHING goes faster than the speed of light. Period.
it is still pretty rough for all those 56K-ers out there
who cares?