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Physicists, Lasers, and an Airplane: Taking Aim at Quantum Cryptography

Physicists, Lasers, and an Airplane: Taking Aim at Quantum Cryptography

Physicists, Lasers, and an Airplane: Taking Aim at Quantum Cryptography

Science, Spoken · SpokenLayer

February 8, 20175m 11s

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On a clear night last September, at a little Ontario airport, two pilots, two scientists, and an engineer took off in a small plane. They’d pulled the left-side door off its hinges, and a telescope poked out of the portal—not at the night sky, but at the ground below. The team was about to play a very difficult, very windy game of catch.

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