Re: OT - Quantum Teleportation Feat Brings Ultrafast Computer Networks Step Closer To Reality

2014-06-04 Thread Don Imbriale
Seriously - I'm missing the mainframe connection here. On Sat, May 31, 2014 at 3:38 PM, John Gilmore jwgli...@gmail.com wrote: This result has major theological implications too. Aquinas in his Summa Contra Gentiles discusses, at great length, the question whether the archangels---Gabriel,

Re: OT - Quantum Teleportation Feat Brings Ultrafast Computer Networks Step Closer To Reality

2014-06-04 Thread Shane Ginnane
On Wed, 4 Jun 2014 12:15:13 -0400, Don Imbriale wrote: Seriously - I'm missing the mainframe connection here. See the recent thread on D-Wave quantum computer announcement. As Arthur C Clarke observed Any sufficiently advanced technology ... As for topic drift ... on this list ???. Say it ain't

Re: OT - Quantum Teleportation Feat Brings Ultrafast Computer Networks Step Closer To Reality

2014-06-02 Thread Paul Gilmartin
On Sun, 1 Jun 2014 22:16:26 -0400, Rob Schramm wrote: From what i see so far, we will have to be killed to be teleported... Well.. the original at any rate. :-) Which shouldn't matter to us if we arrive with our memories and personalities intact. Except for the theological question of whether

Re: OT - Quantum Teleportation Feat Brings Ultrafast Computer Networks Step Closer To Reality

2014-06-02 Thread John Gilmore
It is an open secret, i.e., no secret at all, that the NSA finances fundamental research in mathematics and physics that it deems relevant to its critical listening-in/code-breaking missions, as do the other Five-eyes components. Historically this support has been much more important for the

Re: OT - Quantum Teleportation Feat Brings Ultrafast Computer Networks Step Closer To Reality

2014-06-01 Thread John Gilmore
Shane Ginnane's point is well taken. Erwin Schrödinger (1887-1961) described entanglement as one of the 'central principles' of quantum mechanics; and there is a discussion, pellucid but not for mathematical dropouts, of entanglement in the first English-language edition of John von Neumann's

Re: OT - Quantum Teleportation Feat Brings Ultrafast Computer Networks Step Closer To Reality

2014-06-01 Thread Shane Ginnane
On Sun, 1 Jun 2014 09:02:43 -0400, John Gilmore wrote: What are new, many of them dating only from 2013, are reports of the experimental observation and verification of quantum entanglement in engineering contexts. Not surprisingly, since they very earliest reports of such successes, there

Re: OT - Quantum Teleportation Feat Brings Ultrafast Computer Networks Step Closer To Reality

2014-06-01 Thread Rob Schramm
From what i see so far, we will have to be killed to be teleported... Well.. the original at any rate. :-) Rob Schramm On Jun 1, 2014 8:31 PM, Shane Ginnane ibm-m...@tpg.com.au wrote: On Sun, 1 Jun 2014 09:02:43 -0400, John Gilmore wrote: What are new, many of them dating only from 2013, are

Re: OT - Quantum Teleportation Feat Brings Ultrafast Computer Networks Step Closer To Reality

2014-06-01 Thread Anne Lynn Wheeler
ibm-m...@tpg.com.au (Shane Ginnane) writes: Not surprisingly, since they very earliest reports of such successes, there were murmurings that a large proportion of the fundamental research had been done/financed by organisations closely aligned to the former employer of a certain Mr Edward

OT - Quantum Teleportation Feat Brings Ultrafast Computer Networks Step Closer To Reality

2014-05-31 Thread Lizette Koehler
I thought that this was interesting http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2014/05/29/quantum-teleportation-computer-netw ork_n_5413418.html No one's getting beamed up anytime soon, but teleportation may have taken a big step closer to reality. Researchers at Delft University of Technology in the

OT - Quantum Teleportation Feat Brings Ultrafast Computer Networks Step Closer To Reality

2014-05-31 Thread Lizette Koehler
I thought that this was interesting (resent with the hyper link removed) http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2014/05/29/quantum-teleportation-computer-netw ork_n_5413418.html No one's getting beamed up anytime soon, but teleportation may have taken a big step closer to reality. Researchers at

Re: OT - Quantum Teleportation Feat Brings Ultrafast Computer Networks Step Closer To Reality

2014-05-31 Thread John Gilmore
This result has major theological implications too. Aquinas in his Summa Contra Gentiles discusses, at great length, the question whether the archangels---Gabriel, Michael, Raphael, and that ilk---pass through the intervening space when they travel from place to place. John Gilmore, Ashland, MA

Re: OT - Quantum Teleportation Feat Brings Ultrafast Computer Networks Step Closer To Reality

2014-05-31 Thread Shane Ginnane
Entanglement is hardly a new idea - interesting notion that it might explain how Santa got to (and down) all those chimneys in such a short time period though. Shane ... -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access