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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: 2) by Phoenix666 on Tuesday January 27 2015, @09:10PM
Yes that's a common problem around the world. Science flourished because the scientific method was invented and adopted. Software and computing have benefited greatly from open source. Crowd-sourcing and its variants have begun to change other truisms about our world, too. Can we likewise design a political system, and a financial system, that do not reward idiots, sociopaths, and idiotic sociopaths? We really need to. Our legacy quasi-feudal systems have become so tiresome and dangerous.
Washington DC delenda est.