{"id":141825,"date":"2022-07-08T01:31:29","date_gmt":"2022-07-08T06:31:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2022\/07\/aliens-could-be-using-quantum-communications-to-talk-across-interstellar-space"},"modified":"2022-07-08T01:31:29","modified_gmt":"2022-07-08T06:31:29","slug":"aliens-could-be-using-quantum-communications-to-talk-across-interstellar-space","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2022\/07\/aliens-could-be-using-quantum-communications-to-talk-across-interstellar-space","title":{"rendered":"Aliens Could Be Using Quantum Communications to Talk Across Interstellar Space"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/aliens-could-be-using-quantum-communications-to-talk-across-interstellar-space2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>While we haven\u2019t found any evidence of alien life yet, that doesn\u2019t mean it\u2019s not out there, beyond our reach. Now, a team of researchers has put together a mathematical model showing aliens could potentially be communicating across space \u2013 via quantum physics.<\/p>\n<p>Efforts are well underway to make quantum communications a reality <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sciencealert.com\/a-new-network-switch-takes-us-another-step-closer-to-a-quantum-internet\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">here on Earth<\/a>. The idea is that quantum mechanics provide certain properties that would make information transfer inherently faster and more secure than regular systems\u2026 if we can get it to work.<\/p>\n<p>One of the major hurdles to overcome before quantum networks can be established is that they\u2019re very fragile and susceptible to interference. According to this latest study, such networks could fly across space without breaking up.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>While we haven\u2019t found any evidence of alien life yet, that doesn\u2019t mean it\u2019s not out there, beyond our reach. Now, a team of researchers has put together a mathematical model showing aliens could potentially be communicating across space \u2013 via quantum physics. Efforts are well underway to make quantum communications a reality here on [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":579,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1527,2229,1617],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-141825","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-alien-life","category-mathematics","category-quantum-physics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/141825","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/579"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=141825"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/141825\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=141825"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=141825"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=141825"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}