A poster to the Cryptography mailing list speculated that the patent is so broadly worded that Netscape might claim royalties from anyone sending encrypted communications over an open network, although a challenge could be mounted on the basis of prior art. There is no hard evidence as to what Netscape's intentions are for the patent. Motorola stock was hammered in after-hours trading. The trial is being delayed and scaled back to two cities after a shuffle of CEOs at US West. This development reinforces my belief that the most appropriate agents to deliver xDSL to the home are ISPs, not phone companies.
Entanglement is a phenomenon unique to quantum physics.
It is one of those aspects of quantum mechanics difficult to reconcile with our current general view of reality. In the past, evidence of quantum mechanical entanglement has been restricted to elementary particles such as protons, electrons, and photons. Now researchers using highly excited rubidium atoms have shown quantum mechanical entanglement at the level of atoms. The experimental apparatus produces two entangled atoms, one atom in a ground state and the other in an execited state, physically separated so that the entanglement is non-local. The result of the second atom's wave function collapse is determined by the result of the first collapse.