When science reality collides with science fiction
Rick Klaw • November 3rd, 2007 @ 9:43 am • Uncategorized
Physicists Get Two Atoms to Communicate: First Step Toward the Quantum Internet
The University of Michigan researchers said their accomplishment marks an advance toward super-fast quantum computing and data transmission.
The scientists used light to establish what’s called “entanglement” between two atoms, which were trapped one meter apart in separate enclosures. They described entangling as similar to controlling the outcome of one coin flip with the outcome of a separate coin flip.
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November 3, 2007 at 12:37 pm
That is cool. And strangely creepy. I got stuck on the party about carefully taking a single atom to Jupiter.
November 5, 2007 at 10:12 am
Would this not break the rule against faster-than-light travel?
Although there something about FLT being possible as long as no information is passed – but still this example suggests otherwise.
(It could just be that I’m in a post-lunch slump and have switched my brain off for safe keeping.)