$12 Sale Happening Now. The Quantum Internet is Born “Years from
now it may be said that the quantum Internet was born today.” Of
course, the quantum internet is just in the baby stages now -
but when it matures, it will be able to process ridiculous
amounts of data at blaring speed, and never be hacked. The
system, developed by physicists Stephan Ritter and Gerhard Rempe
at the Max Planck Institute of Quantum Optics in Germany, has
two nodes. Although this is small, the internet you’re on right
now started in the 1960s in a similar process. This first
quantum network was built by utilizing two atoms of rubidium
which exchange photons. Each atom is placed inside an individual
‘room’ with highly reflective mirrors surrounding it, and at a
short distance from its sister atom. These rooms, called optical
cavities, are connected by an optical fiber. First, scientists
aim a laser at the first rubidium atom, which induces an
emission of a single photon. That photon travels along the
optical fiber to the other optic