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  • A Quantum Internet Connected By Cargo Ships Is Not As Crazy As It Sounds

    A Quantum Internet Connected By Cargo Ships Is Not As Crazy As It Sounds

    Our internet has a physical infrastructure: thousands of kilometres of cables that criss-cross the oceans. The quantum internet, when it exists, will have a physical infrastructure too. But you can’t send quantum bits, or “qubits”, on fibre optic cables, so a group of physicists has proposed a bizarre solution: cargo ships carrying data on diamond-based…