WIRED SciencePhysicists, Lasers, and an Airplane: Taking Aim at Quantum Cryptography
On a clear night last September, at a little Ontario airport, two pilots, two scientists, and an engineer took off in a small plane. They’d pulled the left-side door off its hinges, and a telescope poked out of the portal—not at the night sky, but at the ground below. The team was about to play a very difficult, very windy game of catch.
