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China in quantum breakthrough as 'unhackable' experimental satellite sends first message
2017-06-17
[Daily Mail] In a major breakthrough for quantum teleportation, scientists in China have successfully transmitted entangled photons farther than ever before, achieving a distance of more than 1,200 km (745 miles) between suborbital space and Earth.

Entangled photons theoretically maintain their link across any distance, and have potential to revolutionize secure communications – but, scientists have previously only managed to maintain the bond for about 100 km (62 miles).

Using the ‘quantum satellite’ Micius, the scientists were able to communicate with three ground stations in China, each more than 1,000 km (621 miles) apart.
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#10  On my 40th birthday I went to a Chinese restaurant known for its humorous fortune cookies. My fortune later read, "A fool at 40 is a fool indeed."
Posted by: Anguper Hupomosing9418   2017-06-17 17:23  

#9  The mountains are high and the Emperor is far away.

Who the hell do you think orders them to be dishonest? The Easter Bunny and Santa Claus?

The Party is never very far away.
Posted by: Thing From Snowy Mountain   2017-06-17 17:11  

#8  When I worked for USGS, we calibrated our prototype fault creepmeters and tiltmeters in a 150 year old ammunition vault buried under 30 ft of earth and concrete at the Presidio in San Francisco. Diurnal temperatures varied within a range of 0.2 deg C.
Posted by: Alaska Paul   2017-06-17 15:46  

#7  I didn't trust them because they fake results like there's no tomorrow.

The mountains are high and the Emperor is far away.
Posted by: SteveS   2017-06-17 14:24  

#6  I've should've mentioned that I - and everybody else I know - make the distinction between Japanese and Chinese scientists: it's like the manufactured staff Chinese sell - like it was their national sport to see how far they can cheat the barbs ( = non-Chinese).
Posted by: g(r)omgoru   2017-06-17 13:55  

#5  Absolutely legitimate, g(r)omgoru. I should have clarified my own point better: the Japanese don't fake results, as far as I am aware, it's just that their understanding of conditions, while fine for car parts, will lead to biomedical results difficult to reproduce beyond their shores.
Posted by: trailing wife   2017-06-17 13:44  

#4  That's not why I didn't trust them TW - I didn't trust them because they fake results like there's no tomorrow.
Posted by: g(r)omgoru   2017-06-17 13:32  

#3  never trust Chinese experimental results.

i have a girlfriend who did medical research for a Japanese company while her husband was on assignment over there with an American firm. She said that such research is always done under temperature-controlled conditions, eg. at room temp defined as, say 72F + 0.5 degrees. In the U.S. the room will be controlled to that temperature and that range, because that is what the thermostat is capable of. In Japan, she said, the experiment write-up will give that same information, because that is what the thermostat is capable of, but the building services team turned off the heating or air conditioning -- depending on the season -- at night and on the weekends as a cost savings measure when no one was supposed to be there. That was in the 1990s; since that tidal wave-induced shutdown of Japan's nuclear power plants, trailing daughter #2 commented that when she was in Tokyo for an internship a few years ago there was no air conditioning to be had in her office or her studio apartment all summer.
Posted by: trailing wife   2017-06-17 13:16  

#2  How long did it take between sending and receiving the messages?
Posted by: Seeking cure for ignorance   2017-06-17 11:28  

#1  When I was still active making biomathematical models I had a rule - never trust Chinese experimental results.
Posted by: g(r)omgoru   2017-06-17 05:41  

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