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.
The word disembodied and then moved over fibre optic line some 29 something miles to another location infers that the qbit was physically moved via breaking it down to a form of light......thats what I got out of the brief article. Also says they are going to upgrade which implies it got moved but may not have ended up as it started?...maybe didn’t reconstruct exact on the other end?
Physics dictionary, PLEASE!!! I don’t speak Quark, Ferengi, or Transporter room jive.
Just how the natural laws of physics accomplish the virtually instant transmission and putting into effect of a change in quantum state in entangled particles is unknown and a great mystery for physicists. It makes no more intuitive sense than would wiggling the big toe on your left foot and discovering that doing so makes Nancy Pelosi tilt her head upward and cackle like a deranged hen.
Einstein, who predicted quantum entanglement, was vexed by his discovery and famously described it as "spooky action at a distance." The immediate benefit of the new experimental demonstration of quantum entanglement is that it offers physicists a new tool for exploring the phenomenon.
As for Star Trek, the transporter was conceived and used by Gene Roddenberry as a way to prevent the show from slowing down or having odd transitions whenever characters and action had to move off the Enterprise. The transporter is like Samantha on Bewitched twitching her nose to use magic. As with Star Trek's transporter, the witches' nose twitch helps to speed the story along.
In neither instance though are transporters or witchcraft real. Trying to analyze them as potentially real is fundamentally a literary exercise and not an analysis based on physics.