[URL="http://www.theatlantic.com/health/archive/2014/04/a-cube-with-a-view-will-the-offices-of-the-future-take-cues-from-our-evolutionary-past/361263/"]The Mind does not Belong in a Cubicle[/URL]

[URL="http://www.cnn.com/2014/02/19/health/iq-score-meaning/index.html"]What your IQ Score does not Tell You[/URL]

[URL="http://www.npr.org/2014/03/26/294823375/it-was-the-best-of-sentences"]It was the Best of Sentences...[/URL]

[URL="http://www.wired.com/2014/01/how-to-hack-okcupid/"]How a Math Genius Hacked OkCupid to Find True Love[/URL]

[URL="http://www.slate.com/articles/health_and_science/science/2014/05/phineas_gage_neuroscience_case_true_story_of_famous_frontal_lobe_patient.html"]Phineas Gage, Neuroscience’s Most Famous Patient[/URL]

[URL="http://news.vanderbilt.edu/2014/01/gifted-children-study/"]Are Gifted Children Being Lost in the Shuffle[/URL]

[URL="https://www.quantamagazine.org/20140122-a-new-physics-theory-of-life/"]A New Physics Theory of Life[/URL]

[URL="http://www.nytimes.com/2014/07/27/magazine/why-do-americans-stink-at-math.html?_r=0"]Why do Americans Stink at Math[/URL]

[URL="http://news.sciencemag.org/biology/2014/02/black-death-left-mark-human-genome?rss=1"]Black Death Left a Mark on Human Genome[/URL]

[URL="http://www.medicaldaily.com/what-dreams-mean-and-what-they-say-about-you-based-science-314558"]What Dreams Mean And What They Say About You, Based On Science[/URL]

[URL="http://www.wired.com/2014/12/tracking-holiday-lights-from-space/"]You Can See Our Holiday Lights All the Way From Space[/URL]

[URL="http://mashable.com/2014/12/15/robots-take-jobs/"]9 jobs robots could replace in 2015[/URL]

[URL="http://news.sciencemag.org/social-sciences/2014/12/want-influence-world-map-reveals-best-languages-speak"]Want to influence the world? Map reveals the best languages to speak[/URL]

[URL="http://exclusive.multibriefs.com/content/how-the-brain-interprets-reality-vs.-imaginary-thought/science-technology"]How the brain interprets reality vs. imaginary thought[/URL]

[URL="http://www.biosciencetechnology.com/articles/2014/12/reading-leaves-dramatic-imprint-brain"]Reading Leaves a Dramatic Imprint on the Brain[/URL]

[URL="http://www.scientificamerican.com/article/changing-our-dna-through-mind-control/"]Changing Our DNA through Mind Control?[/URL]

[URL="http://exclusive.multibriefs.com/content/orion-launch-ushers-in-next-generation-of-space-travel/science-technology"]Orion launch ushers in next generation of space travel[/URL]

[URL="http://www.technologyreview.com/news/533106/artificial-skin-that-senses-and-stretches-like-the-real-thing/"]Artificial Skin That Senses, and Stretches, Like the Real Thing[/URL]

[URL="http://www.science20.com/news_articles/good_at_math_33_percent_of_the_time_people_think_they_are_but_they_arent-150882"]Good At Math? 33 Percent Of The Time People Think They Are - But They Aren't[/URL]

[QUOTE=rogue;391364]
[URL="http://www.nytimes.com/2014/07/27/magazine/why-do-americans-stink-at-math.html?_r=0"]Why do Americans Stink at Math[/URL]

[URL="http://www.science20.com/news_articles/good_at_math_33_percent_of_the_time_people_think_they_are_but_they_arent-150882"]Good At Math? 33 Percent Of The Time People Think They Are - But They Aren't[/URL][/QUOTE]Good articles, but why is "math" equated with numeracy?

Perhaps Americans in the large really don't understand mathematics. How depressing.

[url=www.reuters.com/article/2015/01/08/us-health-antibiotic-discovery-idUSKBN0KH10S20150108]Scientists find antibiotic that kills bugs without resistance[/url] | Reuters

"Without resistance" is overblown - compare to what the discoverers actually say:
[quote] co-researcher, Bonn's Tanya Schneider, explained in a teleconference that teixobactin belongs to a new class of compounds and kills bacteria by causing their cell walls to break down. [b]It seems to work by binding to multiple targets, she said, which may slow down the development of resistance[/b].[/quote]
Prediction: If the new compound ever does pass human trials, it will quickly become so over- and mis-used that resistance will develop nonetheless. The only long-term solution here is to drastically cut our overuse of antibiotics, in both human medicine and animal husbandry.

[url=http://www.nanowerk.com/nanotechnology-news/newsid=38627.php]Quantum optical hard drive breakthrough[/url]

Edit: Okay, even though it doesn't say in the article that the data is random, I'm assuming it is. But if we(the human race) learns to do this stuff with non-random data, holy crap. The following is the rant I posted before I had the random data thought, please be merciful. :)

Can scifi novels count as prior art, because if this weren't a science article, the author of the Ell Donsaii scifi series would probably be calling his lawyers right now about plagiarism. This is spot on to what Ell Donsaii made, except that stuff is supposedly happening 20-30 years from now if you think of the book as actual history. And, yes, I know it's just a story.

If this concept makes it to production, I'm going to write to Mr. Dahners and ask him for investment advice.

I mean, think of the potential for Chinese dissidents. You could hook up one of these things to a high throughput internet connection in the US and the only way to trace it would be to use normal detective work on the data. And even then the Chinese government wouldn't be able to do much about it. You could transmit data from anywhere in the world to anywhere in the world.

The million dollar question, though, is whether this is limited by the speed of light. Even if it's exactly as fast as light, think of the potential for things like exploration of the Titan moon, you wouldn't even need to worry about intervening material like with regular radio waves. I could hook my tablet up directly to my home network, go anywhere in the country and have the equivalent of a direct connection with no NSA spying unless I was already compromised. The Netflix security measures they implemented recently wouldn't work anymore because people would simply need a willing American to plug them into their network. An extra step that's a bit difficult, but definitely not impossible.

Not only what I said before, but think of the potential when it comes to internet lag. COD fans would no longer be able to blame lag on their hit to death ratio because they'd be able to pay for a direct connection to a server. You could have your local cable provider deal with the hassle of handshaking with a server, then you'd simply use a special dongle to connect to said server; 2 hops there, 2 hops back and way less lag. Hell, while we're talking about servers, let's all get Google Fiber without any actual fiber in the ground. How good is cell phone service going to be if we don't need towers? The only difference between a cell phone and a land line would be that the cell phone needs a battery.

You could forget about laptop hard drives, you'd just need a monitor, a keyboard and a computer SOMEWHERE. Off-site backups at the speed of your USB port.

I could go on forever.

[QUOTE=jasong;391999][url=http://www.nanowerk.com/nanotechnology-news/newsid=38627.php]Quantum optical hard drive breakthrough[/url]

Edit: Okay, even though it doesn't say in the article that the data is random, I'm assuming it is. But if we(the human race) learns to do this stuff with non-random data, holy crap. The following is the rant I posted before I had the random data thought, please be merciful. :)

Can scifi novels count as prior art, because if this weren't a science article, the author of the Ell Donsaii scifi series would probably be calling his lawyers right now about plagiarism. This is spot on to what Ell Donsaii made, except that stuff is supposedly happening 20-30 years from now if you think of the book as actual history. And, yes, I know it's just a story.

If this concept makes it to production, I'm going to write to Mr. Dahners and ask him for investment advice.

I mean, think of the potential for Chinese dissidents. You could hook up one of these things to a high throughput internet connection in the US and the only way to trace it would be to use normal detective work on the data. And even then the Chinese government wouldn't be able to do much about it. You could transmit data from anywhere in the world to anywhere in the world.

The million dollar question, though, is whether this is limited by the speed of light. Even if it's exactly as fast as light, think of the potential for things like exploration of the Titan moon, you wouldn't even need to worry about intervening material like with regular radio waves. I could hook my tablet up directly to my home network, go anywhere in the country and have the equivalent of a direct connection with no NSA spying unless I was already compromised. The Netflix security measures they implemented recently wouldn't work anymore because people would simply need a willing American to plug them into their network. An extra step that's a bit difficult, but definitely not impossible.

Not only what I said before, but think of the potential when it comes to internet lag. COD fans would no longer be able to blame lag on their hit to death ratio because they'd be able to pay for a direct connection to a server. You could have your local cable provider deal with the hassle of handshaking with a server, then you'd simply use a special dongle to connect to said server; 2 hops there, 2 hops back and way less lag. Hell, while we're talking about servers, let's all get Google Fiber without any actual fiber in the ground. How good is cell phone service going to be if we don't need towers? The only difference between a cell phone and a land line would be that the cell phone needs a battery.

You could forget about laptop hard drives, you'd just need a monitor, a keyboard and a computer SOMEWHERE. Off-site backups at the speed of your USB port.

I could go on forever.[/QUOTE]That is not even close to how quantum entanglement communication works.

[QUOTE=retina;392007]That is not even close to how quantum entanglement communication works.[/QUOTE]
Have you no imagination? Figure out how to transmit non-random information and this is EXACTLY what it would look like.

[QUOTE=jasong;392013]Have you no imagination? Figure out how to transmit non-random information and this is EXACTLY what it would look like.[/QUOTE]No. That is not how quantum entanglement works at all.

[QUOTE=retina;392014]No. That is not how quantum entanglement works at all.[/QUOTE]
Naa, naa, rubber and glue and all that.

If you have two quantumly entangled particles and the ability to transmit their states in a non-random fashion you, at the very least, have a transmitter and receiver combination. Add some research assistants and lots of money, let sit for a time, and you have a ground-breaking communication technology. Obviously, there's a lot of middle ground to cover, but anyone can see the possible potential in this sort of thing.

I seem to remember someone saying you had a college degree, not sure how you can get one without the ability to think. Did it have particles of sugary candy sticking to the plastic it came in?

[QUOTE=jasong;392015]Naa, naa, rubber and glue and all that.

If you have two quantumly entangled particles and the ability to transmit their states in a non-random fashion you, at the very least, have a transmitter and receiver combination. Add some research assistants and lots of money, let sit for a time, and you have a ground-breaking communication technology. Obviously, there's a lot of middle ground to cover, but anyone can see the possible potential in this sort of thing.[/QUOTE]No. That is not how quantum entanglement works at all.[QUOTE=jasong;392015]I seem to remember someone saying you had a college degree, not sure how you can get one without the ability to think. Did it have particles of sugary candy sticking to the plastic it came in?[/QUOTE]I doubt anyone here knows my educational history. But no matter, your ad hominem attack doesn't make you right.

[QUOTE=retina;392016]No. That is not how quantum entanglement works at all.I doubt anyone here knows my educational history. But no matter, your ad hominem attack doesn't make you right.[/QUOTE]
Quantum entanglement means 2 particles share similar states, true or not?

Quantum entanglement isn't impaired by intervening material, true or not?

You can't spy on what the 2 particles are saying to each other without revealing your eavesdropping, true or not?

If you add to that the assumption that you can control the state on one particle and have that transferred automatically to the other, that could be used as a form of communication, true or not?

[QUOTE=jasong;392018]Quantum entanglement means 2 particles share similar states, true or not?

Quantum entanglement isn't impaired by intervening material, true or not?

You can't spy on what the 2 particles are saying to each other without revealing your eavesdropping, true or not?

If you add to that the assumption that you can control the state on one particle and have that transferred automatically to the other, that could be used as a form of communication, true or not?[/QUOTE]You need to read more abut it. It is not as simple as you make it out to be. Reading the state also has the side effect of destroying the entanglement. Anyhow, this is already used for communication, it is not a new thing. But your magical world in the post above is not anything close to how it actually works.