<html><head></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; "><br><div><div>On 03/03/2011, at 3:38 PM, Damien Morris wrote:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><blockquote type="cite"><div style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; "><div><blockquote type="cite"><div><br>Theres your 1ms.<br><font class="Apple-style-span"><font class="Apple-style-span" color="#144FAE"><br></font></font></div></blockquote><br></div><div>I've not seen any DeLoreans parked down there but I was suspecting they'd managed to harness quantum entanglement to get that faster-than-light roundtrip.</div><div><br></div><div>Not sharing the the technology with the rest of us though, typical.</div><div><font class="Apple-style-span" color="#000000"><font class="Apple-style-span" color="#144FAE"><br></font></font></div></div></blockquote></div><div><br></div><div>I once hired a programmer with a masters degree in Astrophysics, who ruined my personal vision of quantum entanglement by explaining how it is useless for faster-than-light communications. Good luck with your own vision.</div><div><br></div><div>That's not to say that there isn't room for improvement - internal reflection in singlemode fibre ensures that we're not likely to see signals propagate faster than 60% of the speed of light. Copper wires are good for 80%, so maybe there's an opportunity to resurrect some old cable system and policy-route ICMP across it for laughs.</div><br><div>With the right advances in technology and magma-resistent fibre, you could possibly bore under the pacific direct from Sydney to San Francisco, and shave another 25% off your ping time by not following the curvature of the sea floor - all though I'm not sure how local councils go with permits to penetrate the Earth's mantle. Tesla may have figured out a way to do this wirelessly, but he never got the chance to prove it.</div><div><br></div><div>John</div><div><br></div></body></html>