Scientists Report Finding Reliable Way to Teleport Data
Source: New York Times
Scientists in the Netherlands have moved a step closer to overriding one of Albert Einsteins most famous objections to the implications of quantum mechanics, which he described as spooky action at a distance.
In a paper published on Thursday in the journal Science, physicists at the Kavli Institute of Nanoscience at the Delft University of Technology reported that they were able to reliably teleport information between two quantum bits separated by three meters, or about 10 feet.
Quantum teleportation is not the Star Trek-style movement of people or things; rather, it involves transferring so-called quantum information in this case what is known as the spin state of an electron from one place to another without moving the physical matter to which the information is attached.
Classical bits, the basic units of information in computing, can have only one of two values either 0 or 1. But quantum bits, or qubits, can simultaneously describe many values. They hold out both the possibility of a new generation of faster computing systems and the ability to create completely secure communication networks.
Read more: http://www.nytimes.com/2014/05/30/science/scientists-report-finding-reliable-way-to-teleport-data.html?_r=0
JDPriestly
(57,936 posts)Science is amazing. I wish I had the scientific education to tell science from chicanery.
Hosnon
(7,800 posts)It's like separating two coins by trillions of light years and flipping the one we kept. Whatever it lands on, we know the other one will land on if it is subsequently flipped. We can't control what the first lands on, however.
JDPriestly
(57,936 posts)truthisfreedom
(23,155 posts)That's "teleported" isn't useful.
Uncle Joe
(58,417 posts)Thanks for the thread, IDemo.
maybe we can teleport 'joe the plumber' and his ilk off this planet.
olegramps
(8,200 posts)PeoViejo
(2,178 posts)thinking we were all like Joe and his ilk.
yodermon
(6,143 posts)I'll take either.
phantom power
(25,966 posts)Imagine light-speed data transfer at arbitrary distance, unconstrained by signal transmission problems. A laser can't do that, even if it travels at c.
AtheistCrusader
(33,982 posts)Enrique
(27,461 posts)this will mostly be used for porn.