On its own, the pressure exerted by the protons and electrons of the solar wind is even more feeble than the photon pressure.
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The photon torpedoes have no damage effect on the Borg cube, and they can not outrun the Borg ship, even at maximum warp.
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Most of the photon brains are locked up inside the leaders, the U.S.' Lucent Technologies and Canada's Nortel Networks, and a couple of research institutes.
Back in the 1990s, Tom Dautel worked on a team led by Kashkari to design a solar car called the Photon Torpedo at the University of Illinois.
Notably, this revision adds a shutter button along the right edge of the handset, although like the Photon, it's only a single-stage mechanism, which is quite a bummer.
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And desktop 3D printing and scanning is getting cheaper every day -- Canadian company Matterform is developing a lightweight 3D scanner called the Photon that's cheaper than a tablet.
Starting with the Photon Q 4G LTE's August launch, owners will have the option to unlock the bootloader of at least some devices in an official way that reportedly keeps carriers satisfied.
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But the frequency of the photons was chosen so that the photons also interacted with each other when they were in the gas, so that the presence of one photon altered the way a second behaved.
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The system isn't perfect, however -- in this early incarnation it can only nab 40% of transmitted data before giving itself away, and more importantly, it requires the invention of a "quantum non-demolition box" before the attacker can be anywhere but the same room as the receiver, since right now both attacker and receiver need to be using the same photon detector.
Normally, the spin of each photon would rotate by a certain amount, thanks to its interactions with the magnetic field of the atoms.
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The jump, however, from the smart-phone to photon torpedoes is massive and it all hinges on the concept of the exponential acceleration of technological advancement.
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Solar panels that capture every photon across the light spectrum, even subpar photons like the kind that rain down on cloudy Auld Reekie.
The subjects were scanned using SPECT (single photon emission computed tomography) to highlight the areas of the brain that are active and inactive during the practice.
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In addition to its technological prowess, Motorola PHOTON Q is the seventh device in the Sprint line-up to receive ULE Platinum Certification, the highest level of environmental performance recognized by sustainable requirements established by UL Environment and Sprint.
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Skirting around ol' Wernie Heisenberg and that Principle of his, the team exploited quantum entanglement to read the encryption keys encoded in photon polarizations from their momentums, avoiding detection by either end -- in other words, doing what was once thought impossible by cryptographers.
Those researchers, who are affiliated with the Austrian Academy of Sciences and other European organizations, used lasers to teleport a photon from one Canary Island to the other.
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"Motorola PHOTON Q will be the first 4G LTE device with a QWERTY keyboard and world phone capabilities to join the Sprint line-up, " said David Owens, vice president - Product Development, Sprint.
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The fastest thing in the universe is light, and the amount of time it takes a photon (in a vacuum, absent of gravity), to transit a planck is called planck-time.
For that, you'll have to wait another few years for Photon which will finally unify the Pocket PC and Smartphone divisions -- it's the former (a near-RTM development version) under review.
Overall efficiency of the system is extremely low currently, thanks to a low concentration of those photon-catching structures, but individually they capture about 40 percent of the light's energy, meaning a higher concentration could make for very hearty soup indeed.
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But to exploit the fullest security allowed by the peculiar rules of quantum mechanics, each "bit" of information in the key should be encoded onto exactly one photon, sent through air or down a fibre.
The energy of a packet of light -- or "photon" -- is inversely proportional to its wavelength.
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