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To: dp0622
You are closer to understanding quantum entanglement than you seem to think. For the moment, forget Star Trek transporters and the fictional transmission of objects. The quantum teleportation described in the article is about instantly transmitting the quantum state of a subatomic particle to its remote entangled partner.

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.

25 posted on 12/31/2020 12:37:02 AM PST by Rockingham
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To: Rockingham

I sincerely appreciate your feedback.

HOW does that happen?? I will almost be sad when they find out but there is always a new mystery to solve :)

As for “quantum state”, I am lost.

I found a definition as follows...

A quantum state is any possible state in which a quantum mechanical system can be...

Can you put that in simpler words?

Because it sounds like science fiction the way it’s written.

thank you


26 posted on 12/31/2020 12:57:29 AM PST by dp0622 (Tried a coup, a fake tax story, tramp slander, Russia nonsense, impeachment and a virus. They lost.)
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To: Rockingham

I agree with most of your statement. There are further problems that must be surmounted. One is the observation paradox, a known state in quantum physics where the mere observation of an event changes the result.


35 posted on 12/31/2020 7:02:11 AM PST by .44 Special (Tiamid Buacach!)
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To: Rockingham

I’ll be wiggling my big toe all morning.


39 posted on 12/31/2020 10:08:03 AM PST by BenLurkin (The above is not a statement of fact. It is either opinion, or satire. Or both.)
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