Posted on 07/11/2017 7:12:10 PM PDT by Ciaphas Cain
Scientists have completed the first teleportation of an object from Earth to a satellite orbiting more than 300 miles away.
Alas, those of you expecting Scotty to beam them up soon will be sorely disappointed - the object teleported was merely a single photon.
While the experiment doesn't bring us any closer to teleporting matter, it is a huge leap forward for quantum physics.
The team of Chinese researchers behind the successful teleportation came together from a number of disciplines and included quantum physicists as well as rocket scientists.
In 2016, they launched a satellite called Micius, named after Chinese philosopher from the 5th century BC, from the southwestern Gobi Desert.
Micius is equipped with a super sensitive photon receiver which enables it to detect the quantum state of a single photon which is fired at it from the Earth.
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“what does a duplicated man act like with no soul?”
Easy answer: a democrat
I find these things very interesting.
It would be great to be able to jump ahead 50 years and see what our knowledge of these things is then.
Because you would be creating matter from nothing.
In the teleportation of something there’s no net gain or loss of the subject matter.
The problem with living things, particularly human and a soul commensurate, the possibility exists that to retain the soul the exact state of every atom constituting the body need be recorded, transmitted and reconstituted without error.
Now, I say that speculatively. It could be that the soul readily identifies with its living body and as soon as a body was rematerialized its all “oh, there’s my meat sack!” And hops back in right away. But we’re talking soul here so it’s going to take some major balls to experiment with something like this.
What a crap article.
You have to read between the lines to try to figure out what if anything happened.
The best I can figure out is that they started with a pair of entangled photons, kept one on earth and launched the other up in space and then showed that they were still entangled.
That’s not exactly teleportation. The photon on earth is still on earth.
>>I could make good use of five or six copies of me, provided we all thought exactly the same,<<
I am afraid the more of me there were he more we would fight.
Hasn’t the sun been “teleporting” trillions of photons to earth for billions of years?
So what’s new about that?
I teleport photons every time I use a flashlight!
This is not true “teleportation”.
At the quantum state it is already known and accepted that distance, as we know it, does not matter in the case of the “observer” results of witnessing items at the quantum state.
“Distance” between two locations is not “distance” to certain particles in the quantum state. The “observation” points may have been “far apart” at the human level (and level of their tools) of observation, but nothing was “teleported” - “moved”.
Shining a flashlight = teleporting millions of photons.
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