Uh, Mike, did you really understand that article? Way over my head.

is this kismet or what? Last night I had a heart to heart with my wife telling her that I was giving up on Brian Greene's "Fabric of the Universe". It's not that I couldn't comprehend it, it's just that the time I would need to do so wasn't worth it. Especially after what happened with Stephen Hawking (Prof. Hawking I want that summer back!). But now, it seems that entanglement has real world applications. Oh well back to the inane Simpsons metaphors.

This also explains how, especially in high school, your mom seems to know stuff about you that she really has no way of actually knowing.

Naturally, this raises all *kinds* of interesting questions.
Where are the teeth of parts of the PATRIOT act when anyone on a wire can see that others are listening?
What happens when non-state actors are using this in the wild?
Why didn’t PGP become the security nightmare that some hysterically argued that it would? Will that nightmare come true with quantum cryptography?
Are there going to be other forms of cryptography that work with other subatomic particles? Is there going to be a slew of patenting of atomic interactions? Are we going to see a Betamax-VHS story, with MS pushing the polaron-based cryptography and IBM pimping charmed quark–based cryptography?
What happens to transparency in government if they can write documents and execute instructions that nobody else can ever decipher?(A naive question, I grant.)
Will quantum cryptography be matched by quantum decryption?
Etc. etc. etc.

Okay, Trip, put the coffee down and step slowly away from your own brain...