fastest random generator comes from Australia

for those who like a random chat :wink:

Researchers at The Australian National University have developed the fastest random number generator in the world by listening to the ‘sounds of silence’.
The researchers – Professor Ping Koy Lam, Dr Thomas Symul and Dr Syed Assad from the ANU ARC Centre of Excellence for Quantum Computation and Communication Technology – have tuned their very sensitive light detectors to listen to vacuum – a region of space that is empty.

the random generator online - http://photonics.anu.edu.au/qoptics/Research/qrng.php -

(the link to the server was quite slow for a fast RNG :slight_smile:

I bit more sophisticated that the methods we usually suggest here :slight_smile:


Rob

Insane! I never in a million years would have thought uncertainty principle could have such use. This is rad! You can do a true Monte-Carlo with this stream of numbers! Physics rules.

Hey, now that's a good idea that makes sense.

Us Aussies are used to working with nothing.


Rob