http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=stor...819/tc_nf/19055

 

Sub-space communication, and everyone laughed at Star Trek.

 

There are serious shortcomings in the ability of quantum entanglement to serve as a communication tool. The article doesn't address any of them.

It's pop-science.

- Warren

 

[QUOTE]Originally posted by chroot
[B]There are serious shortcomings in the ability of quantum entanglement to serve as a communication tool.

 

1) The particles must be entangled a priori to be usable. You can't just plug your quantum telephone into the network and start yapping.

2) The entanglement process always involves a collision. The two entangled particles are then moving at high velocities away from each other. The act of slowing them down (so they can be stored in your quantum phone) must involve another collision, and the entanglement will be lost.

3) You can't ever know when someone is sending you a message on your quantum phone, because you can't look at the state of your entangled particles without disturbing them, and that disturbance will ruin the entanglement.

There are others, give me a moment to get my head straight.

- Warren

 

RELAX!!!!

sheesh...

 

There are not just engineering challenges -- there are fundamental physical challenges.

- Warren

 

ummm that's what engineering does...solve physical challenges...unless your on nickelodeon and watching double dare then it's just a bunch of punk ass kids jumping into vats of slime.

 

nickelodeon... interesting reference.

But... I have to disagree... engineers don't overcome physical challenges. They learn to make the most of their confines.

- Warren

 

okay, workaround them. ing semantics.