[ExI] Wireless technology jump.

[Adrian Tymes]

Checking the paper behind it...there was some crosstalk/overlap at some point -
see http://ej.iop.org/images/1367-2630/14/3/033001/Full/nj400111f2_online.jpg -
so I'm not sure if "potentially infinite" is justified here.  But even
if it merely
doubles or triples the bandwidth available, that's still quite an advancement.

On Sat, Mar 3, 2012 at 7:34 AM, Keith Henson <hkeithhenson at gmail.com> wrote:
> http://www.extremetech.com/extreme/120803-vortex-radio-waves-could-boost-wireless-capacity-infinitely
>
> "It is hard to put into words just how significant Thide’s discovery
> could be. If the vortex preserves other aspects of wireless
> communications, such as multiplexing, then in the short term we could
> be looking at a wireless spectrum that can carry 10 or 20 times as
> much data. In the long term, as our understanding of orbital angular
> momentum grows, our wireless spectrum could effectively be infinite.
> To be honest, this is such a huge twist for wireless communications
> that the full repercussions are not yet known."
>
> There are several entries by the professor who invented this trick in
> the comments along with pointers into peer reviewed papers.
>
> Keith
>
> _______________________________________________
> extropy-chat mailing list
> extropy-chat at lists.extropy.org
> http://lists.extropy.org/mailman/listinfo.cgi/extropy-chat