[148034] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: next-best-transport! down with ethernet!
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Ray Soucy)
Fri Dec 30 08:04:50 2011
In-Reply-To: <D51498F0B6E1EF408AC4D63440BFD6F8CB3518EFC4@skbramsx02.emea.att.com>
Date: Fri, 30 Dec 2011 08:04:00 -0500
From: Ray Soucy <rps@maine.edu>
To: "Vitkovsky, Adam" <avitkovsky@emea.att.com>
Cc: "nanog@nanog.org" <nanog@nanog.org>
Errors-To: nanog-bounces+nanog.discuss=bloom-picayune.mit.edu@nanog.org
Are you telling me that the 1,100 miles of fiber I just had run is
already obsolete? Someone is going to get fired over this.
On Fri, Dec 30, 2011 at 8:00 AM, Vitkovsky, Adam
<avitkovsky@emea.att.com> wrote:
> Well hopefully we won't need to worry about the speed of light anymore
>
> Just recently I heard about the experiments with "quantum nonlocality"
> no one seem to understand how it happens but for me it's enough it works
>
> Basically when 2 photons or electrons are emitted form the same source -t=
hey 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 ligh=
t years away -this happens instantly (no energy is transferred yet the info=
rmation is passed)
> -this was already tested between two cities
>
> Imagine that instead of sfp connectors and dark fiber between San Fran an=
d NY node we'd install a connectors with let's say 1500k entangled photons
> -and if we set the spin in a way to send a 1500kbit packet to NY the NY n=
ode would see it instantly -no cables needed
>
> -also there some attempts to actually send the information 50 micro sec b=
ack in time
>
> Of course there are still these issues with probabilities at quantum leve=
l
>
>
> adam
>>What we really need is a new method of sending data. =A0The 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.
>
>
--=20
Ray Soucy
Epic Communications Specialist
Phone: +1 (207) 561-3526
Networkmaine, a Unit of the University of Maine System
http://www.networkmaine.net/
