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[Askot Bokbondeler]

so how do human sacrifices relate to the experiments being conducted at cern?
http://www.liveleak.com/view?i=f6c_1471199045

[scrdest]

so how do human sacrifices relate to the experiments being conducted at cern?
http://www.liveleak.com/view?i=f6c_1471199045

Oh damn, I knew I forgot something important today! The poor guys in the Science Conspiracy Hit Squad must have been bored sitting around all day with no suppressing of evidence to take up their time. Don't worry, they'll be taking care of you in about ten minutes, give or take.

[Egan_BW]

http://www.nature.com/news/chinese-satellite-is-one-giant-step-for-the-quantum-internet-1.20329
http://www.nytimes.com/2016/08/17/world/asia/china-quantum-satellite-mozi.html?_r=0
https://techcrunch.com/2016/08/16/china-launches-the-first-quantum-communications-satellite-and-what-is-that-exactly/

Wait, quantum entanglement communication? This is a thing now?

[BorkBorkGoesTheCode]

Look's like a test.

[TempAcc]

Ye, I doubt its actual quantum entanglement communication. Its prob a concept test or something akin to it, but not actual quantum entanglement communication. If that was a thing already it'd have blown up the internet.

[BorkBorkGoesTheCode]

Not necessarily.

[Starver]

I both would and wouldn't. We couldn't know until we tested it... 

[Osmosis Jones]

Some very clever people in Germany have gone and made an awesome modification to a FIB-SEM microscope.

As someone who works in a field where these are used, I am very, very excited by the prospects listed at the end of the article.

[miauw62]

Probably some kind of QE hybrid technology. I doubt we managed to get QE to work on its own without the national security and technology worlds going full meltdown.

QE communication isn't quantum computing afaik.

[Putnam]

It definitely isn't, since quantum computing is possible.

[Putnam]

? How? Quantum entanglement does not allow for communication in any way.

[Gentlefish]

? How? Quantum entanglement does not allow for communication in any way.

That's what the test is. It's a hybrid quantum entanglement (hybrid with I have no idea) comms satellite. Sounds like a proof-of-concept more than anything.

[MetalSlimeHunt]

In fairness, we don't know that it can never allow for communication. We merely have not observed any manner that allows for it so far.

I think prudence is called for when dealing with quantum mechanics. They seem to have a tendency to beat down human intuition and logic.

[MetalSlimeHunt]

Only a specific theoretical breakthrough in QC would result in permanently breaking conventional encryption. It's entirely possible we could have established QC without that ever happening. In addition, quantum cryptography would not be broken.

[Putnam]

In fairness, we don't know that it can never allow for communication. We merely have not observed any manner that allows for it so far.

I think prudence is called for when dealing with quantum mechanics. They seem to have a tendency to beat down human intuition and logic.

The theorem that it is not possible to do so is based on the math in QM, not "human intuition and logic". That's just completely unrelated.

Only a specific theoretical breakthrough in QC would result in permanently breaking conventional encryption. It's entirely possible we could have established QC without that ever happening. In addition, quantum cryptography would not be broken.

Shor's Algorithm is well-defined and will factor prime numbers in polynomial time on a quantum computer.