Entanglement has been a known phenomenon for several years.  There has even
been an experiement run at CERN I beleive where two entangled photons were
sent opposite ways down a miles long fiberoptic cable, and demonstrated a
way to "cheat" the speed of light.

While the light beams still travel at light speed, if one entangled photon
is processed in certain ways, the other also is affected, apparently
instantaneously.  Quantum physics is wierd stuff.

-- Lawrence Lile

----- Original Message -----
From: "Russell McMahon" <apptech@CLEAR.NET.NZ>
To: <PICLIST@MITVMA.MIT.EDU>
Sent: Tuesday, September 26, 2000 6:00 PM
Subject: [EE]: Towards a faster PIC - ENTANGLED PHOTONS COULD PROMISE
LIGHTNING-SPEED COMPUTERS


> Well, maybe not for a year or 3 yet.
> Maybe about 2020 if we're still all here then.
>
> RM
>
> +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
>
> Donald Savage
> Heaquarters, Washington, DC                September 25, 2000
> (Phone: 202/358-1547)
>
> Gia Scafidi
> Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Pasadena, CA
> (Phone: 818/354-0372)
>
> RELEASE: 00-149
>
> ENTANGLED PHOTONS COULD PROMISE LIGHTNING-SPEED COMPUTERS
>
>      Defying traditional laws of physics, researchers may have
> found a way to blast through imminent roadblocks on the highway to
> faster and smaller computers.
>
> Using modern quantum physics, a research team from NASA's Jet
> Propulsion Laboratory (JPL), Pasadena, CA, and the University of
> Wales in the United Kingdom has discovered that entangled pairs of
> light particles, called photons, can act as a single unit, but
> perform with twice the efficiency.
>
> Using a process called "entanglement," the research team proposes
> that existing sources of laser light could be used to produce
> smaller and faster computer chips than current technology allows.
> Their paper appears in the today's issue of the journal Physical
> Review Letters.

EWtc. etc. etc.

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