Since it is news today, we are reviewing the newly-discovered Memristor in tonight’s meeting of the Philosophickal Salon. We are discussing what, if any, quantum effect itmay have — especially on communications.
Apparently Chuck likes to have lunch and discuss QT3. At least, that’s what his friend blogged:
Lunch was good. I had a chicken sandwich in a vain attempt to watch my LDL’s (the bacon probably offset the meat choice). CP and I caught up on old times, talked about geek stuff and generally annoyed the people around us. He belongs to a geek-fest group that meets on alternate Thursdays to discuss topics such as Quantum tic-tac-toe, ways to decrease the cost of putting a payload in space and whether man has free will. (Some of you are going w00t! and the rest are rolling your eyes.)
Chuck, you should invite your friend to the Salon!
The team used a 1.5 metre telescope called the Matera Laser Ranging Observatory in Italy to bounce single photons off the Ajisai geodetic satellite, an orbiting disco ball that is used for laser ranging measurements.
This is very encouraging to me. Every experiment I think of to test space like causality, requires entangled photons to travel great distances.
Hat tip: slashdot.
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