[148035] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: next-best-transport! down with ethernet!
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Aiden Sullivan)
Fri Dec 30 08:13:45 2011
Date: Fri, 30 Dec 2011 05:09:09 -0800
From: Aiden Sullivan <aiden@sullivan.in>
To: "Vitkovsky, Adam" <avitkovsky@emea.att.com>
In-Reply-To: <D51498F0B6E1EF408AC4D63440BFD6F8CB3518EFC4@skbramsx02.emea.att.com>
Cc: "nanog@nanog.org" <nanog@nanog.org>
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/No-communication_theorem
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Aiden
On Dec 30 14:00, Vitkovsky, Adam 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 -they 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 information 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
> -and if we set the spin in a way to send a 1500kbit packet to NY the NY node would see it instantly -no cables needed
>
> -also there some attempts to actually send the information 50 micro sec back 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.
>
>
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