ZPEnergy.com - Quantum Crime Busting

Under the heading of Prof. Philip Rank, an MIT research team has managed to couple quantum states of the space-time fabric to states of the past. In the experimental setup (as being published in the May 2006 issue of Physics Review Letters D, "Quantum State Superposition", Philip Rank et al. p. 98-105) the team has detected photonic events of past quantum states.

"Although we just have detected singular photons, we see no reason why the technique could not be scaled up.", says Prof. Rank. "By extending the area of superposition above a CCD (charge coupled device), we should be able to record images. But this is years away".

The idea is intriguing, a camera able to record past events. One of the areas that would benefit greatly of such an innovation would be crime labs. Brent Michaels, press officer of LAPD says "True or not, it would be the wet dream of any law enforcing officer".

Another intriguing application that also is touched upon in the article, is being able to look into the future. "Naturally, as we could superpose past states the question came up if we could superpose future states. We tried, but I can't say that we've had any true success. We're still analyzing those results" says Prof. Rank.