So when a deer in the road moves toward me because I shine my headlights down the road, my headlights are attractor beam?
There, fixed it for you.
"whose team has looked for variations in the fine-structure constant with the Very Large Telescope as far back as about 11.5 billion years ago and found none"
WTF? These dudes were already alive 11.5 billion years ago??
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Apparently you missed the whole reason why quantum cryptography is radically different:
It is IMPOSSIBLE to duplicate the quantum key or the quantum message exactly.
So Michaels qubits are different from the one Bob sent AND there are ways for Alice to find out that they are different, so she knows eavesdropping has occurred.
It's a bit like making a copy of a letter
- that self destructs when it is copied or read
- that looks different depending on the light you use to scan it/read it (for example rgb(125,54,74))
- and the copy you make will again be spread over the different frequencies in a random way.
So some of it will only be visible again if it is viewed under light of color rgb(245,45,7), while other parts can only be seen under light rgb(45,4,48)
So the end result of your copy will NOT be the original.
When Alice wants to read the letter, she uses the frequency that Bob told her to use. If that color wasn't rgb(125,54,74), then Michael wasn't able to copy the message anyway. But even if Michael already used the correct color to make the copy, the copied version will only have part of the message in the correct color.
So Alice uses rgb(125,54,74), and then notices that most of the words on the letter are still missing! En thus she knows that this is not the original one, but a copy!
there's no such thing as a straight-line orbit.
Find an orbit where you pass through one of the Lagrange points. While you are in the Lagrange points, you are moving in a straight line, because all accelerations cancel each other out there.
The moon is made of green cheese. -- John Heywood