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I have no idea what that experiment does but the pic is cool! EDIT: The pic is not cool?
One thing that isn't clear in this article is whether they really teleportated it, meaning that they were able to transfer information instantaneously from point A to point B (which would go against Einstein's relativity law that states that nothing can go faster than the speed of light), or if they just transported a light beam from one point to another with regular means of communication. It sounds more like it's t…
Can anyone explain what quantum teleportation is? Wikipedia does not help, aside from assuring me that it is not what I thought it was: Quantum teleportation, or entanglement-assisted teleportation, is a process by which a qubit (the basic unit of quantum information) can be transmitted exactly (in principle) from one location to another, without the qubit being transmitted through the intervening space. It is useful…
This is important because it gets you the ability to route quantum information to different places.
Presumably a quantum bus in a computer or a quantum fiber-optic line.
I can see the marketing pamphlets now!
To me, teleporting has always meant transferring the information that describes an object to another location, where the object is reproduced. This transfer of information occurs via light/radio waves or similar.
I have no idea what that experiment does but the pic is cool! EDIT: The pic is not cool?
Downvotes probably due to people thinking that your comment adds nothing to the conversation, not necessarily disagreeing with you (I would think that the pic would be cooler if it were higher res; as it is, I can't make much sense of it).
reasonably high res
Why are people assuming that 'teleportation' means instantaneous travel? To me, teleporting has always meant transferring the information that describes an object to another location, where the object is reproduced. This transfer of information occurs via light/radio waves or similar.
So what's the meaning here? I've been reading similar (to a non quantum physicist) stories for years and RTFA. What will this change about my life?
Minimum round trip time between San Francisco and Tokyo is about 60ms due to the speed of light, which means in practice FPS games are unplayable across the ocean. If they manage to implement this shit, we'll be able to have FPS games hosted anywhere in the world!
Can anyone explain what quantum teleportation is? Wikipedia does not help, aside from assuring me that it is not what I thought it was: Quantum teleportation, or entanglement-assisted teleportation, is a process by which a qubit (the basic unit of quantum information) can be transmitted exactly (in principle) from one location to another, without the qubit being transmitted through the intervening space. It is useful…
One thing that isn't clear in this article is whether they really teleportated it, meaning that they were able to transfer information instantaneously from point A to point B (which would go against Einstein's relativity law that states that nothing can go faster than the speed of light), or if they just transported a light beam from one point to another with regular means of communication. It sounds more like it's t…
Why are people assuming that 'teleportation' means instantaneous travel? To me, teleporting has always meant transferring the information that describes an object to another location, where the object is reproduced. This transfer of information occurs via light/radio waves or similar.
I hate to post what is nearly a "me too", but I'd also like to ask that question, with the clarification that I do not mean it as a rhetorical equivalent of "No, of course it's not instantaneous, duh", I am genuinely curious where the sheer confidence of the definition of "teleportation" as "instantaneous in violation of relativity" suddenly came from. Is there some scifi show on TV that I'm not watching that is prom…
