Quantum Physics as a Military Super Weapon

[Lithos]

http://www.weirdasianews.com/2010/09/28/quantum-physics-military-super-weapon/

There are those who think of quantum mechanics as the idea that anything can happen for any reason or without one.

This relegates quantum physics to the same level as statistics, as there are those among us who abuse the principles in order to justify whatever item they’re selling or theory they are professing.

Incidents of physics abuse are often reported in the news, but the idea of quantum communication (quantum entanglement) as a military tool for China that could become a super weapon as expressed in a recent experiment, is turning more than a few heads.

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[drm604]

1. Quantum Physics has been a military super weapon since the forties. n/t

[mindwalker_i]

2. This article makes no sense

It seems to be saying that the Chinese military might use quantum encryption to keep its messages secret. Quantum encryption is being used in the world, although not for military (as far as I know). But encrypting messages, a.k.a. pgp, works. How this becomes a superweapon isn't described.

[Lithos]

4. It is a fluff article

Quantum computing has quite a few military possibilities including cracking pgp and any other encryption key in almost real time. This article does not cover that though.

I posted the article more or less as an example of the FUD which the average layman perceives quantum physics.

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[mindwalker_i]

5. Is it even really FUD?

Sounds like somebody who wants to talk about something to make them sound cool (meaning the author of the article).

[Ozymanithrax]

3. Quantum physics is not a super weapon, it is a branch of study in physics...

I am not sure that a communication system quite ranks as a super weapon. The article is not coherent.

Here is another study with Quantum Entanglement.

[HysteryDiagnosis]

6. Just how many boogey men does Amurka need??

http://physicsworld.com/cws/article/news/42847



Researchers in Cambridge in the UK have succeeded in generating entangled photons using electricity alone, with a new device called an "entangled light-emitted diode" (ELED). The device converts electrical current directly into entangled light rather than relying on laser power as in previous technology. The technique could be a practical way to integrate many entangled light sources together on a single chip – something that will be crucial for making a real-world optical quantum computer.
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Entanglement allows particles to have a much closer relationship than is possible in classical physics: if two particles are entangled, we can automatically know the state of one particle by measuring the state of the other – despite the state of either being impossible to guess before the measurement. For example, two photons can be entangled such that they are always measured to have the same linear polarizations, even though we cannot predict that polarization beforehand.