The great discovery of quantum information teleportation via fiber optic cables is an event that is expected to radically change the fate of Humanity within a few years.
Without the need for new infrastructure, the new technology can be implemented with which the security of communications becomes simply… self-existent and speed loses any meaning as it will no longer exist as a concept.
The basic principle of quantum physics is that “the observer affects the experiment”.
Therefore, if someone could find a way to intercept our quantum communication, this means that they would observe it and this would consequently mean that it would change and therefore we would read the wrong message!
As for speed, because quantum phenomena violate the infamous principle of the speed of light and what happens to a correlated particle, happens simultaneously without any loss of time, to the other correlated particle, it becomes a meaningless concept.
The message does not need to “run” to reach the recipient from the sender, it simply exists and is read!
Many characterize Quantum Physics as “High Vibration Magic” or as the “Science of God” as it essentially explains not only the world known to our senses but also the metaphysical.
Let’s not forget that even the existence of God has been proven in quantum terms by the brilliant Austrian mathematician Kurt Gödel, with the famous “Ontological Proof” (for some reason that has not been explained in the debates with atheists who use Science to convince of their obsessions, everyone forgets to “use” Gödel).
The new technology is based on quantum entanglement, where two particles are connected regardless of the distance between them.
One particle will momentarily affect the state of the other, so the particles do not need to be physically transported in order to act.
To explain it more simply, this phenomenon violates the speed of light limit.
For example, if someone could be transported to the next galaxy with the data so far and based on the speed of light, we would communicate with them in about 2 million years!
But now, using quantum communications, the connection with them could be made in real time!
Previously, quantum entanglement was limited to carefully controlled laboratory conditions, but research from Northwestern University in the USA shows that the phenomenon can be easily reproduced in conventional fiber optic networks that are already used for everyday internet traffic.
Optical communications are the basic structure of modern telecommunications, where data is transmitted with light.
Classical communication requires many photons (packets of light), while quantum communication is affected by only one photon and is therefore significantly fragile and easily disrupted.
In essence, these photons would not want to exist alongside the current high traffic on existing fiber optic cables as they would encounter many obstacles, namely “noise”.
However, when combined with the right wavelengths and the appropriate special filters to reduce “noise”, the researchers transmitted quantum information “unscathed”.
Unlike classical communications, which could be intercepted or hacked, quantum information, as we said, is protected by the principles of quantum mechanics.
Any attempt to measure or observe the quantum state of information results in its complete disruption, so that interception is never possible, because the “message” will simply change…
This means that quantum teleportation will completely revolutionize the standards of secure data transfer, from financial transactions to confidential communication.
Except that data is not just telecommunications.
Everything is data: The image, the human body, the brain…
The possibilities that suddenly appear for humanity in combination with artificial intelligence and supercomputers are infinite and immeasurable.
While classical communications require light to send data of limited time, quantum teleportation will virtually transmit the source of information and the destination, limited only by the physical speed of the system.
Basically, the only limitation will be how fast we can transmit and not how long it will take for our data to reach the recipient.
So in a few years, it is expected that there will be quantum networks that will manage huge amounts of data at speeds that are simply… “absolute”.
Of course, the absolute transmission of infinite amounts of data also means an immediate technological “launch”.
Because the increase in data and its transmission is what brings scientific and technological progress.
The achievement is huge because it opens “doors” for other things besides communications.
In the future, at some point, the problem of transporting people over unrealistic distances will even be solved, which also encounters the problem of the speed of light limit.
In short, what we see in amazing science fiction narratives, Star Wars, Star Trek, Dune, Foundation, Rebel Moon, etc. can become reality (and this is yet another proof that Fantastic Literature and Cinema “strangely” mention things that once become reality).
Even violating the boundary of “parallel worlds” could be possible at some point (transportation to a “parallel slice of reality” similar to ours but which at some point in time followed a different course, e.g. on some parallel Earth the German Nazis won World War II, or the Cuban Missile Crisis of 1962 ended in nuclear disaster)!
The new technique of quantum teleportation allows the coexistence of quantum and classical networks and the sharing of the same fiber optic infrastructure.
So, instead of having to completely overhaul the current internet infrastructure, quantum networks can be layered on top of existing systems, which will significantly reduce the cost and complexity of implementation.
Elon Musk, in his recent conversation with Alice Weidel, said that the goal is to have a manned flight to Mars by 2029.
Before quantum teleportation, astronauts would send messages to Earth about what was happening (basically happening) on the “red planet” and wait a few minutes to receive the response.
Not anymore…
