God damn it.
Where are our guys?
This is top-drawer theoretical physics. Do you know what this means for 15 years down the road?
How about military technologies we can only dream of, illuminating U.S. submarines and aircraft and decrypting our best cryptosystems in a flash?
What is this collaboration with Yale -- a thinktank pipeline sucking our best people dry and channeling their insights to Chinese skunk works?
I really didn't need to read something like this, not when we've got America's biggest enemy in the White Hut.
The British may have to bail us out on this growing -- not technology, but hierarchically higher theoretical knowledge -- disparity, which threatens us like no money-slurping low-level spy ever did.
This is top-level espionage, conducted out in the open "in the name of science".
“The researchers, led by Prof. Jiangfeng Du at the University of Science and Technology of China and Prof. Liang Jiang at Yale University”
So the leading researchers are a chinese in China and a chinese in the US.
If anybody should be upset it should be the chinese for making this cutting edge technology public.
But I guess they figure that whatever comes out of it, they’ll be building it and exporting it to us.
i’ve been screaming about the impact of H-1bs on the sciences for years.
i’m glad i’m not the only one that noticed it in this brief.