Quantum downloads and instant Internet: The rise of entangled data transmission

A refrigerator festooned with microwave cables cools Google's quantum chip to nearly absolute zero.

The other day I was pondering how internet speeds have increased exponentially from the good old days of dial-up.

Does anyone doubt that speeds will continue to increase until they finally equal that of electricity and light, i.e., for all practical purposes instantaneous?

Which might be fine for streaming 3-D movies with all five sensory channels but won't come close to cutting the mustard for Major Tom and his crew's communications with ground control when it comes time to leave the solar system and head for the nearest Earth-like planets elsewhere in our galaxy.

I'm thinking around 2200 for the first of an endless stream of such missions.

Anyway.

It's obvious that information — when entangled quantum mechanically — travels much faster than the speed of light.

In fact, it's instantaneous, no matter how far the distance.

Want an example to prove it's so?

No problema.

Imagine yourself on the moon.

How long did that take?

I'll bet a lot less than a second.

That's interesting, since it takes light well over a second to travel from here to the moon.

Your thought of you on the moon was there the instant you imagined it, just like the entangled information enclosed in that thought.

nuf sed.

Long story short: Our startrekking descendants will be able to converse in real time no matter where they are.

I like it.