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I would like to know what the advantages are. I mean whats the point?
Theoretically, zero latency. If you don't have to wait for a photon to get all the way from one end of a line to another, that can improve a lot of things.
I'm not sure what the fiber is doing here, but if they can get it working without that, they could drive rovers around Mars in real time, instead of waiting the 4-24 minute delay each way when sending/receiving signals.
Or streaming video games could be actually playable instead of frustrating messes.
Have we ever actually proved it can exceed the speed of light in information travel? I swear I have seen stuff where its theorized the speed of light is also the speed of causality
Nope, the actual information must still be transported via a classical no quantum (and trusted) channel so that both ends can match their statistics and thus deduce the crytographic keys from the qunatum signals. And thats it what its all about: key exchange
thanks. I had forgotten about that I think mainly because I can't wrap my mind around how it works like if its intercepted and used then it will confirm that its void and produce a new one or such.