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Unlike Bilbo's magic ring, which entangles human hearts, engineers have created a new micro-ring that entangles individual particles of light, an important first step in a whole host of new technologies.
Entanglement - the instantaneous connection between two particles no matter their distance apart - is one of the most intriguing and promising phenomena in all of physics. Properly harnessed, entangled photons could revolutionize computing, communications, and cyber security. Though readily created in the lab and by comparatively large-scale optoelectronic components, a practical source of entangled photons that can fit onto an ordinary computer chip has been elusive.
New research, reported today in The Optical Society's (OSA) new high-impact journal Optica, describes how a team of scientists has developed, for the first time, a microscopic component that is small enough to fit onto a standard silicon chip that can generate a continuous supply of entangled photons.
http://phys.org/news/2015-01-entanglement-chip-breakthrough-faster.html
[Abstract]: http://www.opticsinfobase.org/optica/abstract.cfm?uri=optica-2-2-88
[Paper]: http://arxiv.org/abs/1409.4881
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday January 27 2015, @05:53PM
Unlike Bilbo's magic ring, which entangles human hearts
Wut?
I thought all it did was make you invisible, and addict you... erm, and if you're Smeagol and it's your birthday... well... personally I take Kamina's position. Why should I take my brother's things?!
Gurren Lagann, spin on!
Wait, we were talking about the one ring... I'm not sure how this relates to galaxy-sized mechs fighting over the fate of the universe. Good thing the ringwraiths aren't anti-spirals!
I guarantee this comment makes more sense than the quoted quotation from TFS.