China Launched A Quantum Teleportation Satellite

[OverCoronavirus Pressure]

That OP gave me stupidity. Will reading it backwards re-ensmarten me?

 

[Ruprecht]

There's a big gap between a satellite designed to help examine the existence and potential of quantum entanglement, and a satellite which actually uses quantum entanglement in any practical manner.
Good on them though. The trend towards commercialised science is the death knell for this sort of project.

 

[JudoThrowFiasco]

There's a big gap between a satellite designed to help examine the existence and potential of quantum entanglement, and a satellite which actually uses quantum entanglement in any practical manner.
Good on them though. The trend towards commercialised science is the death knell for this sort of project.

why? privatized and commercialized companies like cubesat and IOS are creating satellite technology that is cheaper and more accessible to individual and private researchers. A commercialized company will in all likelihood, send the first manned capsual to another planet.

Providing more access to more people at lower cost is a bad thing?

 

[Bagatur]

auto correct - photons not protons

but the same issues arise - interference causing absorption

I think the ptp laser record is still 140km

sure it is a problem, and it is good that China is doing something to expand the limits. China has been doing some crazy shit in experimental physics lately.

 

[Ruprecht]

why? privatized and commercialized companies like cubesat and IOS are creating satellite technology that is cheaper and more accessible to individual and private researchers. A commercialized company will in all likelihood, send the first manned capsual to another planet.

Providing more access to more people at lower cost is a bad thing?

The trend towards commercialisation in research restricts range and scope. Theoretical physics, along with natural history and broad scale environmental research, tends to suffer dramatically for it's limited, or long path toward, commercial application. Due to that same commercialisation not only do we see the sort of knowledge produced dictated according to market interests, but the beneficiaries of that knowledge are determined according to the same principles (and this extends notably to biomedical research). I'm certainly not complaining about commercial research though, only the trend towards the commercialisation of public research.

 

[cooks1]

Totally saw this coming. For the last 5 decades, the aliens on the planet have been sharing their technology with the US, believing we were the smartest nation and best option for benevolent use overall.

Not that we are considering Trump for president, they have clearly rethought that.

 

[Rod1]

why? privatized and commercialized companies like cubesat and IOS are creating satellite technology that is cheaper and more accessible to individual and private researchers. A commercialized company will in all likelihood, send the first manned capsual to another planet.

Providing more access to more people at lower cost is a bad thing?

LOL if you think private companies are going to invest money on big theorical project like the LHC, a lot of these companies that are creating satellites only started doing so when the hard science was solved and viability was proven so that you could properly calculate the risk-reward ratio of such ventures. Or when paired with a government agency that would mitigate the costs of a failed venture.

 

[PEB]

Well the first reports are in about China's quantum encryption satellite. They claim to be reporting after the Aug. 16 launch of their Satellite they sent back 212 megabytes of data successfully from their satellite orbiting in space.

Of course some people believe the Chinese are doing this as a fake out to force the US to come clean about their own satellite in operation. That the Satellite that the Chinese sent up was nothing more then a standard run of the mill communication satellite.

http://www.computerworld.com/articl...-the-ground-with-chinas-micius-satellite.html

 

[Pixelated Porn]

Yea I read about this.

Quantum entanglement is still such a sci-fi concept that it's hard to almost accept that it's real.

I mean, doesn't completely destroy Einsteins relativity theory? There must be some form of communication between the particles that are faster than the speed of light yes?

Spooky to the max.

Or, we are living in a holographic universe and they are actually two aspects on the same particle.