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arthurdentwa t1_irab8x0 wrote

Reply to comment by just1monkey in Many scientists see fusion as the future of energy – and they're betting big. by filosoful

Even within our own solar system, solar power gets weak quickly (hence the need to dig into both if we want to leave the solar system on a generational ship). But you are right-- mastering it would give us safe power for the inner planets when humans start the next wave of colonization and we become a multi-planet species.

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just1monkey t1_irac569 wrote

Hey, did you see this recent article about chaining photons together in like a quantum relay?

I have to admit I was like making up some words and concepts in my head for all the stuff I wasn’t getting, but it sounded like if you started with an already entangled pair of photons, you could much more easily tack on additional entangled photons to make like a long entangled photon chain, and for some reason (super curious but not sure I followed that part), it’s easier to do that than trying to entangle two random photons from scratch.

Who’s up for a relay race around the multiverse?

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