
The SciencesJune 27, 2017
Nil Communication: How to Send a Message without Sending Anything at All
Physicists have exploited the laws of quantum mechanics to send information without transmitting a signal. But have they, really?
Joshua Roebke is an author and journalist. An excerpt from his forthcoming first book, a social and cultural history of particle physics entitled The Invisible World, recently won an inaugural Whiting Foundation Creative Nonfiction Grant. He is also a visiting researcher at the Institute for Historical Studies at the University of Texas in Austin, where he teaches literature and writing.

Nil Communication: How to Send a Message without Sending Anything at All
Physicists have exploited the laws of quantum mechanics to send information without transmitting a signal. But have they, really?