Fellow Tumblr smarties, I got a question
would it be a good idea to use sequences of photons as a way of transmitting messages throughout large distances?
Since photons are massless, they can reach the speed of light (duh), which is the current highest possible speed that can be achieved by something
Of course, we already have something like that in the form of optical fibers, but would it be possible to water it down so much, that we would not need cables?
Maybe via special machines, that'd fire these photons in certain ways to little transmitters that'd absorb and resend the photons for the lowest chances of the message getting lost or corrupted that'd remove the need for long and convoluted cables
And while on Earth, it wouldn't be that much of a problem nor would there be a strong need for something like this, but I mean it in an inter-planetary sense (maybe between telescopes located far from Earth or even outside of our solar star system
I'm not sure if it'd be possible, maybe with the right technology, but would it be a good idea or would there be a more efficient way of doing this using something else?
Excluding wormholes ofc-