Australian Physicist Explains the Quantum Internet
The Quantum Internet means among other things that if the NSA or Chinese state hackers try to eavesdrop on a communication link, the link immediately collapses. It's the ultimate in security because the information is stored in quantum states, but quantum states collapse when measured by third parties. The no-cloning theorem of quantum mechanics says that quantum states cannot be copied so a third party cannot eavesdrop on a two party link. There is no way to copy the quantum state in which information is encoded and if you try so, the communication link vanishes. In other words, surveillance destroys the information it wants to copy and the link going down informs the two parties communicating that the link has been compromsed. 😃 Good riddance, Big Brother. The presenter is an Australian physicist who provides a good, but highly detailed explanation of how quantum mechanics works and why it will one day transform the Internet. Fasten your seat belts because Matt does not dumb thi...