Quantum Telecloning Demonstrated? 195
An anonymous reader writes "According to Physorg eavesdropping on a quantum encrypted link can now be done without detection. From the article: 'The scientists have succeeded in making the first remote copies of beams of laser light, by combining quantum cloning with quantum teleportation into a single experimental step. Telecloning is more efficient than any combination of teleportation and local cloning because it relies on a new form of quantum entanglement - multipartite entanglement.' There is also a PDF of a related paper available here for background material."
I really dig this stuff... (Score:5, Funny)
saw it coming (Score:2, Funny)
ahh yes (Score:4, Funny)
O well, must be the FBI getting an early start.
Don't worry... (Score:5, Funny)
Have a nice day!
Re:Heisenberg Uncertainty Principal? (Score:3, Funny)
Unless there is a school named Heisenburg Uncertainty, which would be cool.
Another basic law of physics... (Score:3, Funny)
I just made that up, but the obvious corollary is this; If you don't want something to be known, don't say it!
Thank you very much, I'll be here all week. (Mostly because I have nowhere else to go.)
Re:I really dig this stuff... (Score:5, Funny)
Can I get this in English? (Score:5, Funny)
Can some explain it and use real-world examples?
As a physics major... (Score:5, Funny)
I hope that will be helpful to other Slashdotters outside the field.
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This is great (Score:4, Funny)
Re:Heisenberg Uncertainty Principal? (Score:5, Funny)
Just as you think you know where your next lesson is you rush to get there to realise you've already missed it.
Finding out if the lecturers are still alive after opening the classroom door is an entirely different and wholey worrying scenario unto itself.
right... (Score:3, Funny)
smash.
Cloning is immoral! (Score:3, Funny)
Re:I really dig this stuff... (Score:3, Funny)
By no means can two perfect copies of people be allowed to exist at the same time. It would rip apart the very fabric of space time as we know it. Therefore...
1. Materialize two pugil sticks into the data stream, one for each person. Let them duke it out American Gladiator style. Loser gets fed into a tree shredder (provided by Soylent Green Technologies).2. Insert shark teeth and monkey tail DNA into the copy. He would be slightly different, and slightly cooler too. Men, otherwise wasteful empty beer cans now provide roughage as well. Ladies, flexible long second appendage for you. Think about it. 'Nuff said. Order preserved.
3. Keep both the original and copy. #$%@ the Universe! Take a chance. The Colossal Crumple is merely 5 billion years away anyway...Re:What it all really means (Score:3, Funny)
Hopefully that Quantum Pretangle Cloning will stay unscannable.
I have a long distance quantuum eavesdropper (Score:2, Funny)
Re:Heisenberg Uncertainty Principal? (Score:5, Funny)
Obviously no one is quite sure.
news flash! (Score:2, Funny)
Quantum Theory Wrong
at least, half the cats are alive
Re:I really dig this stuff... (Score:2, Funny)
If journalists were physicists... (Score:1, Funny)
You'd have to read the paper every day because it would be on the test.
Stock charts would be replaced by their formulae.
Articles would be published only after 6 month's peer review.
Articles would be written only after attaining an NSF grant.
The grant would in include USD$4 Billion for a 10-acre superconducting adjective collider (SAC) for smashing random words together in the hope of finding new, short-lived metaphors. Expected completion by 2018.
Re:Heisenberg Uncertainty Principal? (Score:2, Funny)
Calvin's work? (Score:2, Funny)
Quick summary of quantum theory (Score:2, Funny)
"Oh boy.."
IIRC (Score:2, Funny)
Ah, yes! (Score:3, Funny)
Re:Heisenberg Uncertainty Principal? (Score:2, Funny)
Dude! I love that place. They moved everybody out and gave me the front room