To: Future Snake Eater
Quantum teleportation has already been accomplished (instantaneous communication) in lab settings across a 100+ mile distance.
The implications for use in space communications are enormous. After all, even the moon is some 1.3 light seconds away which isn't a huge distance but beyond that, instant communication would be a big leap. Gotta figure, the mars rovers move a few feet at a time for a reason. Instant communications would radically change the way even our robotic missions are conducted. Such instant communications may have saved many of the lost mars missions.
The New Horizons craft is a touch over 3 hours and 7 light minutes out (one way)
13 posted on
06/30/2012 8:00:36 AM PDT by
cripplecreek
(What does it profit a man if he gains the whole world but loses his soul?)
To: cripplecreek
“The implications for use in space communications are enormous.”
Quantum physics dictates that tricks like quantum teleportation, entanglement, etc can’t transmit information faster than the speed of light.
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