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* Alice and Bob really are quantum- a professor at the University of Washington has used two separate remote cameras, named Alice and Bob, to test the theory of non-locality and its potential for time travel, by attempting to receive a message before it's sent. The experiment hasn't yielded results so far, but it's telling.
* In [[Linguistics]], it's more often John and Mary.
* The pattern of choosing an alphabetically-sequential string of names (Alice, Bob, Charlie...) was used for a series of alphabetical Atlantic and Pacific Railroad stations constructed across the Mojave Desert circa-1883. The first in the series is "Amboy", now a ghost town on the former US Route 66. Steam trains originally stopped at each of these sequential points to obtain water.
== All The Tropes ==
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