We got into Atlanta (well, Marietta) last night only about two hours behind schedule, after leaving Greenville about three hours later than originally planned. My interview at GaTech is set for 0900 tomorrow. Looks like GaTech should be trivially easy to get to from here.
I had an interesting thought on the way down here -- one of those insights that suddenly go off in your head like a flashbulb. Cast your mind back a week or two to the outfit that trumpeted they'd successfully teleported an atom, only when you actually read the article, the truth of it was they'd used an entangled pair to transmit the quantum state of an atom to another place. I pointed out at the time that they hadn't actually teleported a damned thing, and that they did not have the basis of any kind of transporter beam, but actually had something possibly very much more useful -- the foundation of an ansible, an instantaneous communicator. (My understanding is that transmission of state changes between entangled pairs is currently believed to happen instantaneously, not limited by lightspeed. The mechanism by which this happens is not yet understood.)
Anyway, somewhere in South Carolina I had one of those flashes of insight about using entangled pairs for quantum communication. Not only does it offer the posssibility of an ansible that could allow, say, a planetologist at JPL Pasadena to put his hand on a joystick and take real-time control of a rover on one of Jupiter's moons, or on a KBO, or on a planet circling another star, but it's also the ultimate secure channel. A quantum-entangled link absolutely, positively CANNOT be jammed, it absolutely positively CANNOT be tapped, and the transmission absolutely positively CANNOT be either traced or faked. The only way to compromise it is to gain physical possession of either the transmitter or the receiver.
There's a lot of applications for that, if it can be turned into more than a laboratory feat.