Nicolas Gisin

a coil, a spool with fiber optics, 10 kilometers long, but then Alice and Bob were next to each other.

But the real physical distance, the first time was Nicolas Gisin, who did that under Lake Geneva to link Geneva with Nyon and later with Lausanne.

And more recently, in China, there's been extraordinary work, practical work for implementing quantum cryptography on a large scale.

They have 10,000 kilometer of what they call the backbone of quantum cryptography, which is fully integrated with their space version.

He's exactly the kind of person who does not.

And yet, in March twenty twenty-six, he published a paper in PNAS reviewed by Lucien Hardy, Nicolas Gisin, and others, proposing something he calls rational quantum mechanics, or RAQM and it contains a prediction that, if correct, would be the first experimental failure of quantum mechanics in a hundred years.

That failure could also spell disaster for the quantum computing industry.

The core idea is this.