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[Interest] FWD: The last crusade of the Templars
I've liked to joke that, because of their encrypted passbook accounting and payment system, a way for holy-land pilgrims to deposit money in Europe, deduct amounts from an encrypted document for Templar-sponsored passage, hostelry, etc., en route, and collect the remainder on arrival in Jerusalem, that the Templars were the original financial cryptographers. :-). More seriously, it was operating this kind of medieval Western Union cum Brinks cum Wells Fargo cum Hilton, which not only allowed them to effectively transfer the asset value of whatever booty they may have acquired in their early days back home, but also to make the lion's share of the money they were eventually disbanded for... Cheers, RAH Who put a Templar's Square maths puzzle on the IBUC shirt at the first EFCE conference in Edinburgh because of Roslyn Chapel, just outside of town, and who, coincidentally, has spent the last 16 years in the Boston neighborhood of Roslindale, the former home of a large, discrete, Masonic temple, speaking of punters who think they're modern Templars... --- --- begin forwarded text Date: Thu, 2 Dec 2004 23:40:07 -0500 (EST) From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: [Interest] FWD: The last crusade of the Templars Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sender: [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.timesonline.co.uk/article/0,,2-1379629,00.html November 29, 2004 The last crusade of the Templars By Ruth Gledhill The knights want a Papal apology nearly 700 years after they were disbanded and hounded into exile THE VATICAN is giving serious consideration to apologising for the persecution that led to the suppression of the Knights Templar. The suppression, which began on Friday , October 13, 1307, gave Friday the Thirteenth its superstitious legacy. A Templar Order in Britain that claims to be descended from the original Knights Templar has asked that the Pope should make the apology. The Templars, based in Hertford, are hoping for an apology by 2007, the 700th anniversary of the start of the persecution, which culminated with the torture and burning at the stake of the Grand Master Jacques de Molay for heresy and the dissolution of the Order by apostolic decree in 1312. The letter, signed by the Secretary of the Council of Chaplains on behalf of the Grand Master of the Poor Fellow Soldiers of Jesus Christ and the Temple of Solomon Grand Preceptory, with a PO box address in Hertford, formally requests an apology for the torture and murder of our leadership, instigated by Pope Clement V. We shall witness the 700th anniversary of the persecution of our order on 13th October 2007, the letter says. It would be just and fitting for the Vatican to acknowledge our grievance in advance of this day of mourning. Apologies have already been made by the Roman Catholic Church for the persecution of Galileo and for the Crusades. The Templars hope that these precedents will make their suit more likely to succeed. Hertford Templar Tim Acheson, who is descended from the Scottish Acheson family that has established Templar links and whose family lived until recently in Bailey Hall, Hertford, said: This letter is a serious attempt by a Templar group which traces its roots back to the medieval Order to solicit an apology from the Papacy. He added: The Papacy and the Kingdom of France conspired to destroy the Order for reasons which modern historians judge to be primarily political. Their methods and motives are now universally regarded as brutal, unfair and unjustified. The Knights Templar officially ceased to exist in the early 1300s, but the order continued underground. It was a huge organisation and the vast majority of Templars survived the persecution, including most of their leaders, along with much of their treasure and, most importantly, their original values and traditions. The Hertford Mercury newspaper has reported newly discovered Templar links with Hertford, including a warren of tunnels beneath the town. At the heart of the maze of tunnels is Hertford Castle, where in 1309 four Templars from Temple Dinsley near Hitchin were imprisoned after their arrest by Edward II, who believed that they were holding a lost treasure. The treasure was never found. When Subterranea Britannica, a group of amateur archaeologists, expressed an interest in investigating Hertfords tunnels last month, they received anonymous threats telling them not to. The Templars captured Jerusalem during the Crusades and were known as keepers of the Holy Grail, said to be the cup used at the Last Supper or as the receptacle used by Joseph of Arimathea to catch Christs blood as he bled on the Cross, or both. Interest in the Templars and the Holy Grail is at an unprecedented high after the success of books such as The Da Vinci Code, by Dan Brown, and the earlier Holy Blood Holy Grail, by Michael Baigent, Richard Leigh and Henry Lincoln, which claimed that Jesus survived the crucifixion and settled in France. The Knights Templar were
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Re: Optical Tempest FAQ
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A Plan for Liberty
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The Source of Hitler's Success
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Re: Unintended Consequences
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Re: Unintended Consequences
On Fri, 3 Dec 2004, Steve Furlong wrote: I also tried to get my wife to agree to a heroic name for our son. In the tradition of Pericles and Sophocles, I present ... Testicles. Similarly I preferred Falopia, and alas my wife was equally reticent. -Chuck -- http://www.quantumlinux.com Quantum Linux Laboratories, LLC. ACCELERATING Business with Open Technology The measure of the restoration lies in the extent to which we apply social values more noble than mere monetary profit. - FDR
Re: Unintended Consequences
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Quantum memory for light
http://www.physorg.com/news2227.html PhysOrg Nano and Quantum Physics Technology Applied Physics Space and Earth science Electronic Devices Striking Research and Developments Quantum memory for light December 03, 2004 Realization of quantum memory for light allows the extension of quantum communication far beyond 100 km In the macroscopic classical world, it is possible to copy information from one device into another. We do this everyday, when, for example, we copy files in a computer or we tape a conversation. In the microscopic world, however, it is not possible to copy the quantum information from one system into another one. It can only be transferred, without leaving any trace on the original one. The manipulation and transfer of quantum information is, in fact, a very active field of research in physics and informatics, since it is the basis of all the protocols and algorithms in the fields of quantum communication and computation, which may revolutionize the world of information. In the work published in Nature, November 25, 2004, scientists from the Max Planck Institute for Quantum Optics in Garching and the Niels Bohr Institute in Copenhagen have proposed a scheme to transfer the quantum state of a pulse of light onto a set of atoms and have demonstrated it experimentally. -- Image: Experimental set-up: Atomic memory unit consisting of two caesium cells inside magnetic shields 1 and 2. The path of the recorded and read-out light pulses is shown with arrows. (Max Planck Institute of Quantum Optics / Niels Bohr Institute Copenhagen) - In the experiment, a pulse of light is prepared in a certain quantum state whose properties (polarization) are randomly chosen. Then, the light is sent through a set of atoms which are contained in a small transparent box (an atomic cell) at room temperature. In the cell, the light and atoms interact with each other, giving rise to an entangled state in which the two systems remain correlated. After abandoning the atomic sample, the pulse of light is detected. Due to the fact that the light and atoms are entangled, the process of measurement on the light affects the quantum state of the atoms in such a way that they acquire the original properties of the light. In this way, the state of polarization of the photons is transferred into the polarization state of the atoms. This action at a distance, in which by performing a measurement on a system it affects the state of another system which is at a different location is one of the most intriguing manifestations of Quantum Mechanics, and is the basis of applications such as quantum cryptography or phenomena like teleportation. In order to check that the transfer of polarization has indeed taken place, the researcher measured the polarization of the atoms at the beginning of the experiment and compared it with the original state of polarization of the light. In the experiment, these two polarizations coincided up to a 70% of the time. The main reason for the imperfections where the due to spontaneous emission, a process in which the atoms absorb the photons but then emit them in a different direction such that they do not go towards the photo-detector. A question that the authors of the paper had to carefully analyze was to what extent 70% percent of coincidence is enough to claim that the process was successful. Or, in other words, could they obtain the same result by measuring the state of polarization of the photons and then preparing the state of the atoms accordingly? The answer is no. Due to the basic properties of quantum mechanics, the state of polarization of a laser pulse cannot be fully detected. Due to the Heisenberg uncertainty principle, it is impossible to measure the full polarization exactly. In fact, as some of the authors together with K. Hammerer and M. Wolf (from the Max Planck Institute of Quantum Optics) have recently shown, the best one can do using this latter method would be 50%. This implies that the experiment indeed has successfully demonstrated the transfer beyond what one could do without creating the entangled state. The current experiment paves the way for new experiments in which the information contained in light can be mapped onto atomic clusters and then back into the light again. In this way, one could not only store the state of light in an atomic clusters, but also retrieve it. This process will be necessary if we want to build quantum repeaters, that is, devices which will allow the extension of quantum communication far beyond the distances (of the order of 100 km) which are achieved nowadays. Original work: B. Julsgaard, J. Sherson, J.I. Cirac, J. Fiurásek, und E.S. Polzik Experimental demonstration of quantum memory for light Nature 432, 482 (2004) Source: Max Planck Institute -- - R. A. Hettinga mailto: [EMAIL PROTECTED] The Internet Bearer Underwriting Corporation http://www.ibuc.com/ 44 Farquhar Street, Boston, MA 02131 USA ...
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