[BenLurkin]

"Teleported" over fiber-optic cable?

[dp0622]

It’s very hard to understand it all but it’s quite incredible.

I was under the assumption that this was happened naturally too.

Very wrong? :)

Folks think of Star Trek when they hear teleportation but I thought it was the creation of a replica on the other side.

Ah, it’s hurting my head again :)

I’ll leave it for the smarter folks.

[Harmless Teddy Bear]

Can they teleport me to a world where logic runs the show?

[Mr. N. Wolfe]

I miss Art Bell.

[Reno89519]

Okay, the article is very weak on details. How fast from point A to B? How much energy required? High fidelity meaning that the data can varied to communicate data of some type? Is this scalable? What is the application?

[Bob434]

finally- Well, teleport me back to the 70’s/80’s please- lotsa things i wanna do over again- get right-

[ProtectOurFreedom]

Can we be teleported out of this impending communist take-over into a free world?

[noiseman]

Quantum teleportation is not transporting matter from one point to another, but rather instantaneously duplicating the quantum state of an atom in another atom that already exists somewhere else. In that way, it can be used to instantaneously transmit information, theoretically over any distance, by using the quantum state of atoms to encode the information. A side benefit is that any message sent this way is impossible to intercept, because any attempt by an outside party to observe the information instantly destroys it.

Those are the basics as I understand it, but don’t ask me the details of how it’s possible. I don’t think even the researchers working on it really understand what is happening when it occurs.

[Pez149]

In other words,
Your gonna have to buy a new phone.....

[rfp1234]

That will make deporting illeg@l @liens useless. They’ll just beam them back across the border.

[DannyTN]

Bookmarked for myself from the other side.

[CptnObvious]

Major problem with this. If quantum entanglement is between two "particles" then to prove entanglement you would have to separate the two particles with no means of communication between them and observe the others behavior when one of them is changed.

But here, the article says the particles are two photons of light and the two are connected via fiber-optic cable which is a medium of light. So where is the separation needed to prove that entanglement is happening? I don't see any separation here.

However, if one photon was sent over one fiber-optic cable onto another fiber-optic cable and the two cables were disconnected, then I would say we had a valid test. But I don't see how they separated them from the original medium, the one fiber-optic cable?

Or am I missing something here?

[jerod]

Sounds like an awesome idea... Until...

[sten]

this isn’t matter teleportation. more like instantanious information transfer over unlimited distances

obviously, a huge deal for military and space comms

[BenLurkin]

[BroJoeK]

from the article: "...a sustained, long-distance teleportation of qubits made of photons (particles of light) with fidelity greater than 90%.
The qubits were teleported over a fiber-optic network 27 miles (44 kilometers) long..."

Riiiiiight, What's a qubit?

I saw him in person do this routine when he was about this age and I was... much better looking! ;-)

[Fred Hayek]

Outer Limits - Think Like A Reptile: “Balance the equation.”

[LibWhacker]

Captain, it appears the transporter has entangled us with a couple of nerds.