Quantum Fascination Continues...

So this is just too fascinating to pass up!  A year or so ago Nicolas Gisin, of the University of Geneva, proposed that the human eye could arguably detect a few photons at a time.  In other words, we can detect extremely low light.

And it only took some time, and a separate experimental investigation into "cascading quantum states" by Francesco De Martini and buddies at the University of Rome to posit that, indeed people could experience quantum entanglement through their retinas.

How cool is that?

Announcing... the Quantum Bomb

So I'm going to make one of my grand predictions... Some day in the future humanity will produce a weapon capable of complete annihilation.

A few years back a team developed a terahertz detector - rigged it up to a camera and everything was pretty neat. 

Then recently a Swedish team developed a quantum cloaking device:

In practice, this means designing quantum corals, elliptical nanostructures, that absorb terahertz waves of specific frequencies. When a molecule that emits this frequency is placed at the focus, it cannot be spotted. It is essentially invisible.

What this means to me - is that e still equals mc^2.  In other words, energy IS matter, and though messy and antiquated machines of destruction are very much a threat - it may be possible in the future to "unmake" matter utilizing quantum mechanics, and a massive amount of energy.

Ok, I've officially scared myself.