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From: mcdonald@uxe.cso.uiuc.edu
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Subject: Re: TI announcement
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Date: 23 Jan 89 15:38:00 GMT
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Nf-From: uxe.cso.uiuc.edu!mcdonald    Jan 23 09:38:00 1989



>I'm no physicist, but there seems to be the possibility of quantum
>interconnects that exhibit ZERO propogation delays.  The idea is to
>create a macroscopic quantum state to interconnect a sender and receiver.
>When this quantum state is perturbed enough to jump by the sender, the
>state changes instantaneously across its entire extent.  Therefore, the
>receiver can detect this change without a speed-of-light delay.  

Uh-- well yes, maybe it can, or at least appear to. But that doesn't
mean that you can carry information that way. If you succeed,
send me e-mail REAL QUICK, I'll try to duplicate it, and, given success,
see that you are nominated for the Nobel Prize muy pronto! :-)

In my grad school days we were able to detect the effects of the
speed of light at distances of less than 100 angstroms.