{"id":241892,"date":"2026-07-30T20:34:19","date_gmt":"2026-07-31T01:34:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2026\/07\/lights-hidden-properties-save-quantum-information-from-the-chaos-of-bad-weather"},"modified":"2026-07-30T20:34:19","modified_gmt":"2026-07-31T01:34:19","slug":"lights-hidden-properties-save-quantum-information-from-the-chaos-of-bad-weather","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2026\/07\/lights-hidden-properties-save-quantum-information-from-the-chaos-of-bad-weather","title":{"rendered":"Light\u2019s hidden properties save quantum information from the chaos of bad weather"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/lights-hidden-properties-save-quantum-information-from-the-chaos-of-bad-weather2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>For years, researchers have tried to harness the \u201ctwist\u201d of light to transmit data. This property describes how light spirals as it travels forward, and because it can be molded into a virtually infinite number of different twists, it provides a massive, promising alphabet for high-capacity communication.<\/p>\n<p>This twisted light has proven notoriously fragile in real-world environments such as bad weather, atmospheric turbulence and water. Once it passes through these chaotic media, the twisted pattern becomes completely unrecognizable, a major historical barrier that has stalled the use of this large alphabet for global communications.<\/p>\n<p>By sending quantum information through a storm, researchers at The University of the Witwatersrand in Johannesburg, South Africa, have shown that the information in light can be kept completely intact, even though the light itself was completely warped beyond recognition.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>For years, researchers have tried to harness the \u201ctwist\u201d of light to transmit data. This property describes how light spirals as it travels forward, and because it can be molded into a virtually infinite number of different twists, it provides a massive, promising alphabet for high-capacity communication. This twisted light has proven notoriously fragile in [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":427,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1617],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-241892","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-quantum-physics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/241892","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\/427"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=241892"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/241892\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=241892"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=241892"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=241892"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}