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That’s right, the TV serial Big Bang Theory was mentioned at an event hosted by the IET London Network. Marika Talyor PHD gave a very insightful talk on Blackhole theories, Astronomy and Quantum Computing. Associated astrophysical topics where also reviewed. The talk focused on how black-hole theories have developed over the recent decades and matured enough now that they can be applied to the fast developing world of colloquial quantum computing. Explaining the theory of Event-Horizon Telescope and association to the Holographic Principal, parallels were drawn to quantum computing being described as a giant breathing hard-disk-drive whose state is determined by the activities of qubits as variables. So anything that goes into the HDD can have its effects calculated based off environment variables.

As the talk progressed, the terminologies used to describe gravitational waves or quantum gravity were similar to those used to describe components of cyber security. A few blogs ago, I touched on field based technologies for the cloud, similarly it was mentioned how a project called Event Horizon Telescope is using globally connected field radio telescopes to collect and aggregate data to map the black hole in our Milky Way. Further, how the detection of wave collisions can be achieved using normalisation of amplitude Vs frequency analysis. Here we can perhaps see an overlap into the realms of cyber security, more specifically, vendor cyber threat landscapes and how security products are correlating and aggregating data to give real time understanding on threat severity of a real time compramise.

Heuristics was also mentioned to understand how particles are thought to interact with blackholes, in the same way again, in the realm of cyber, heuristics offers deterministic methods of malware detection in some signature-based security products. It was also mentioned that as particles interact with blackholes, specific black-hole-firewalls burn up objects but at the same time remember its mass values. Coming back to how the Event Horizon of a blackhole is described like a HDD of giant quantum computer with variables having qubits assigned, by using simulation it will be possible to detect quantum interactions of these mass values.


Where once algorithmic simulations of state based quantum interactions are better developed, they may have an overlap into the world of threat detection and response during cyber attacks – imagine that – no more Severity 1 callouts to manage ! 
With quantum computing power now coming into economies of scale, not only will we be able to borrow from the wave simulations to identify an APT cyber threat coming along, the systems will automatically calculate what shields it will need to put up ( maybe IoT based field-nanobots ) to push away the threat back into the ether. SIEM solutions, Sandboxing owasp transactions and Big Data Threat Landscape Analytics are likely to have just scratched the surface in comparison to what quantum algorithms will be able to do in time to come.

Beyond adaptations into cyber security, it is likely with the increase in field based devices needing longer battery life, application of quantum science can help provide efficiencies in battery design, Clayton Valley in Neveda is a Lithium hot-spot and attracts many enthusiast that search for bettering Lihium technologies – it is likely quantum science is already advancing those battery focused companies, including solar organisations, to produce longer life field based devices.

This was a very progressive topic whose mathematical adaptions using quantum computing will likely become a reality. Whilst cyber security was not in scope for the talk, clearly there are strong overlapping concepts that will be applicable to protect smart-sensor based intelligent 5g cloud-networks, your enterprise security roadmap and all those field based devices.

For more details on Astronomy, you can visit the University of Southampton website here.