[148033] in North American Network Operators' Group
RE: next-best-transport! down with ethernet!
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Vitkovsky, Adam)
Fri Dec 30 08:01:37 2011
From: "Vitkovsky, Adam" <avitkovsky@emea.att.com>
To: Ray Soucy <rps@maine.edu>, Tei <oscar.vives@gmail.com>
Date: Fri, 30 Dec 2011 14:00:16 +0100
In-Reply-To: <CALFTrnOTNrinVXSjEVtESEvMOqyceRBrAGUBEFmUqmaQgFg-8Q@mail.gmail.com>
Cc: "nanog@nanog.org" <nanog@nanog.org>
Errors-To: nanog-bounces+nanog.discuss=bloom-picayune.mit.edu@nanog.org
Well hopefully we won't need to worry about the speed of light anymore
Just recently I heard about the experiments with "quantum nonlocality"=20
no one seem to understand how it happens but for me it's enough it works
=20
Basically when 2 photons or electrons are emitted form the same source -the=
y are somehow bound/entangled together -that means if we change the spin on=
one photon to "up" the other photon will have it's spin changed to "down" =
immediately
-and it doesn't matter whether the photons are next to each other or light =
years away -this happens instantly (no energy is transferred yet the inform=
ation is passed)
-this was already tested between two cities
Imagine that instead of sfp connectors and dark fiber between San Fran and =
NY node we'd install a connectors with let's say 1500k entangled photons=20
-and if we set the spin in a way to send a 1500kbit packet to NY the NY nod=
e would see it instantly -no cables needed
-also there some attempts to actually send the information 50 micro sec bac=
k in time
Of course there are still these issues with probabilities at quantum level
adam
>What we really need is a new method of sending data. The fact that I
>will never be able to send something from Maine to California in less
>than 15 ms is not acceptable.
>The speed of light is such a drag.
