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comment by ike
ike  ·  4298 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: Government Lab Reveals It Has Operated Quantum Internet For Over Two Years

bfv's right on about quantum computing, but this isn't that. This is just taking advantage of one key part of quantum physics: observing a photon changes it. I'm not sure why fiber-optic communication doesn't always have this property, since it's just photons.