Just the facts, ma'am. Just the facts.
No doubt the Chinese have already stolen the technology.
Good, since klinton and bathhouse barry gave all our technology to our enemies.
What say you, aviation experts and fighter pilots?
I’m sure that was said of radar, initially.
At the level of description given, this is the same thing as radar.
Unjammable aircraft detection using quantum mechanics
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Researchers from the University of Rochester in New York have demonstrated an aircraft detection system that is unjammable.
By using polarized photons to detect and image objects, any attempt to modify the photons will alter its quantum properties. The system can then detect the altered quantum state of the photons.
Quantum entanglement is the only thing I can think of, since photons certainly CAN be absorbed, reflected and jammed. But entangled pairs would (conceivably, I'm no physicist) accurately report back regardless of what happened to their mates -- if you can tease the information out of them.
My question is WTH are they releasing this information and not locking those researchers up somewhere in the lab of their dreams?
But I am not really sure why they could not be "absorbed" by a dark surface coating on whatever you're trying to protect from detection. No return ... no comparison of elements of the beam when it left, with what the same quantum nuggets look like when they get back.
This sounds like something that could work in a lab under very strictly controlled conditions but might be years away from functioning in the real world. In the meantime, if it screws up our stealth tech it screws up everybody else's as well.
Uses a laser. That makes it a bit difficult to cover larger areas of the sky. And, depending on the laser, it can be blocked by clouds, etc.
https://www.technologyreview.com/sites/default/files/images/Quantum%20imaging.png
And of course, metamaterials are just over the horizon!
To give any credence to an article that proclaims this is “unjammable” is folly. Anything one man can envision, eventually can be realized by another man. It’s like saying you have discovered everything there is to know about this process and have foreseen anything the enemy can think of. It’s ego-maniacal at the minimum. I do understand, I think their preliminary basis for this, as it was posited some time back that photons could also be used for communication and their quantum state would make it known to everyone if it had been tampered with, or even an attempt was made at tampering. It is theoretically possible, but in reality, someone will eventually crack the code, so to speak.
It sounds like some researchers are creating their own PR to maintain some funding or to acquire a new source of funding.
I don’t see how this will work. The same process they rely on to detect changes in the photons should change the photons as well. How could they then tell if the properties changed before they tried to measure them, or because they tried to measure them?
Just the facts, ma'am. Just the facts.
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