Cool stories!
The quantum computing proof encryption scheme is interesting. It has got me thinking. (factor analysis, molecular orbitals, simplex calcs, tesselation, group theory...) Though ever since last year I have to wonder if the Chinese have quantum based computing decryption algorithms in their military arsenal already.
I was floored by IBM using NMR of perfluoropentane to calculate the factors of 15 back in about '91(?). Trivial result, incredible technique and ramifications.
In sci-fi spirit, the further we go down this road, the closer we get to Scotty's transporters.
It makes me see mandalas, and think of my big-small theory-dream.