[_] "Whoa, slow down there..."
Raymond Brooks
ray at conscious.co.uk
Thu Jan 25 15:51:26 GMT 2007
Jim Fanning wrote: > >> 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 > > > > Surely he didn't mean to include [_] in that statement... Rx