This milestone marks the first-ever quantum satellite communication link established in the Southern Hemisphere.

  • ViperActual@sh.itjust.works
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    16 hours ago

    Quantum entanglement/teleportation does not mean information transmission exceeds the speed of light. You’re still limited to sending entangled particles to your destination following the laws of physics. You cannot transmit information via this phenomenon.

    What you can use this for is transmission integrity. Where you will know if an outside observer intercepted your transmission then sent it on its way to the destination. This is more commonly known as a man in the middle attack (MitM).

    • NarrativeBear@lemmy.world
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      14 hours ago

      I always imagined quantum entangled particles would be useful in information transmission. Probably not directly, such as the particles transmiting the information themselves, but in a way potentially vibrating a particle on one end and getting the same vibrations on the other end. Depending on the vibrations you deduced the information.

      Obviously sending one of the entangled particles to another destination would be as slow as the fastest mode of transport.

      But i wonder if we had a entangled communication device on either of the voyages probes if we would be able to send commands to them from earth with no lag in transmission.

      • LostXOR@fedia.io
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        13 hours ago

        Quantum entangled particles can’t influence each other; they just allow you to infer information about one particle by observing the other. It’s like if you randomly put a red and a blue ball in two different boxes without looking, then moved them far apart. Opening one box and seeing a red ball instantly tells you the other box has a blue ball, no matter the distance, but no information has been transmitted faster than the speed of light (because the boxes can only move slower than light).