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> From: Raymond Brooks [mailto:ray at conscious.co.uk]
>
> Jake Rayson wrote:
> > Single photon data storage:
> >
> > http://www.theregister.co.uk/2007/01/25/single_photon_storage/
> >
> > To be honest, I don't understand ;)
> >
>  From what I understand, by passing a photon through certain materials
> you may alter its quantum waveform. This means you can store
> information, such as images, on it. What the guys in NYC have done is to
> store an image onto a single photon's waveform by passing it through a
> kind of quantum stencil, then slowed it down by passing it through
> caesium gas. Slowing the photon down means you can effectively hold it
> for a (very) short period of time and therefore, keep the information it
> contains. I think it's awesomely cool. Commercial optical quantum
> computers by the time we're sixty? We might just be lucky...
>
> Rx
>

As Richard Feynman once said... "I think I can safely say that no one
understands quantum physics"

Jim