Computing with Subatomic Particles

Friday, June 26, 2015

Ron Morehead_Quantum Bigfoot_Subatomic Particles
Scientists at Raytheon BBN Technologies are learning to use subatomic particles to store the bits that make up computer data. These are not your normal 0’s and 1’s, these are quantum bits or “qubits” which means each bit can exist in both states at the same time.  Quantum computing could lead to lightning-fast computers which could open new technological possibilities. Learn about the progress at Raytheon BBN Technologies below.

Scientists can use quantum technology to protect data by sending encryption keys encoded on photons, or tiny particles of light. If a third party tries to eavesdrop, the communication ends immediately.

“It’s secured by the laws of physics,” said Zachary Dutton, who leads the Quantum Information Processing group. “In an academic environment, you’d write a paper and leave it at that. But here we’re preparing technologies that can be used in actual applications.”

In laboratories around the world, Raytheon researchers are pushing new technologies to the edge of human knowledge. In nearby Andover, Mass. they’re putting circuits on slivers of artificial diamond to create more efficient electronics. In El Segundo, Calif. they’re building satellite sensorsAdvertisement that can “see” the Earth in 22 bands of the electromagnetic spectrum at once.

Other engineers are working on nanotechnology or building electrical systems to power missile-destroying lasers. In addition to customer-funded projects, Raytheon invests significant resources in research and development each year. The company’s engineering magazine, Technology Today, publishes hundreds of new Raytheon patents in every issue.

“CHANGING THE WORLD

Researchers hope that quantum technology could eventually lead to lightning-fast computers that might aid everything from cancer research to astronomy.

Down the hall from Habif’s optics lab, a 5-foot-tall cylinder in the quantum computing lab “whooshes” like a high-pitched heartbeat. It’s the sound of helium and other gases being pumped in and out of the tank, known as a “dilution refrigerator.”

The device creates temperatures colder than any naturally-occurring place in the solar system — 1/100 of a degree Kelvin above absolute zero, to be exact.

Scientist Blake Johnson uses the extreme cold to forge superconducting computer chips. A quantum computer using these chips could be orders of magnitude more powerful than fastest desktop PCs, opening up whole universes of technological possibility.

“What we’re doing here will change the world,” Johnson said over the din. “I know it sounds corny, but it’s true.”

Ron Morehead has been investigating the Bigfoot phenomena for over 4 decades and has come to believe the answers may lay in the further understanding of Quantum Physics. Our understanding of Bigfoot could be instantaneous answered someday, perhaps with the use of a Quantum Computer.

SRC: Learn more about Raytheon BBN Technologies and their use of Subatomic Particles at: thehill.com/sponsored/content/244004-inside-the-lab-how-quantum-mechanics-could-change-your-world

 

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