Quantum vindaloo swaps

Quantum entanglement proposes that particles which are arbitrarily far apart are influencing each other. This contradicts the general notion held in relativity theory about cause and effect, because infact it states that phenomena which should cause an event from one point of view, is infact happening after the event from another point of view. Apparently this is an issue of open and heated debate. Quantum entanglement is already a super complex subject of quantum mechanics, but it gets even more interesting when you cross the issue of entanglement swapping.

 

“In entanglement swapping, one particle of an entangled pair becomes entangled with a third particle, which itself becomes entangled with the other particle in the first pair, even though the two never interact”. The super cool thing about this is that scientists are developing systems where entangled photons, which instantaneously correlate with one another, travel over distance to transport information. This is called quantum teleportation. But in this is only working over a few hundred miles until there is signal loss :( And this is where entanglement swapping hits the scene: repeaters are placed along the quantum channel and there photons which come from different pairs swap information to transmit it along much longer distances.

This is amazing in itself, but gets even more amazing when you realise that they are swapping information to create a communication path but they are photons which never actually interact with each other.

The reason this is interesting to me is not because I suddenly developed an understanding of science (I am still the same old vindalooic dilettante), but because physicists seem to be discovering ways in which, without direct interaction, photons are creating efficient and resilient transmission channels.

I wonder how this could be replicated in organisational structures to facilitate process and collaboration agility. If anyone has read or seen anything in management literature to this effect, I would be glad to hear about it.

Photo: entangled photons

Paris – Istanbul

I am in the process of moving from Paris to Istanbul. (Infact, I am taking a box packing break). Besides the US where I studied (New York) and some months in Colombia, I have not lived outside Europe before. I am super excited. Istanbul is an amazing city of 15 million people and as cosmopolitan if not more than most of the super-cherished world capitals.

 

Some of the great things I am looking forward to right now are:

Living in what once was Byzantium and then Constantinople (I mean, come on, it has been the capital of the Roman, Byzantine, Latin and Ottoman empires!) and everything I have to see to understand this history (I must remember I actually should work…!)

Living in the only city on the planet that covers two continents (Jim Jarmush missed it in A Night On Earth, what a shame)

Living on the Golden Horn and, as in my case, over the Marmara Sea

Being in a cross-roads of East and West and all that it implies

Getting to know all about Turkish modern art, architecture and design (I mean, there is some very serious stuff going on there). I will take Istanbul Modern as the starting point

Wining, dining and dancing in all the cool places between Galata, Besiktas, Ortakoy, Nisantasi and Bebek

Working in the fascinating ecosystem of Hürriyet Medya Tower (and hopefully doing something productive and meaningful there ;-)

Learning Turkish and learning to understand Turkish culture and social norm (By the way I find Turkish people amongst the nicest most welcoming, warm, polite, refined and cultivated I know)

Remember what Napoleon Bonaparte said: “If the earth was a single state, Istanbul would be it’s capital”