First Object Teleported to Earths Orbit

First Object Teleported to Earths Orbit

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Toaster

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anonymous-user

53 months

Sunday 16th July 2017
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Toaster said:
Not quite. But certainly interesting!

XM5ER

5,087 posts

247 months

Monday 17th July 2017
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Classic case of oversell that wasn't needed

FurtiveFreddy

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236 months

Monday 17th July 2017
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So a photon is an 'object' now, is it?

Buzz84

1,138 posts

148 months

Monday 17th July 2017
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So it doesn't transport the original, it takes the information and replicates it somewhere else...

It's a printer...

caelite

4,273 posts

111 months

Monday 17th July 2017
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I wish people would stop using the term 'teleported' as it really is missleading to the layman, quantum entanglement is an amazing technology, and is the key for long distance communication on a solar level where light is just too damn slow, but teleportation of tangible matter it is not.

Essentially what they have managed to do is have a photon change quantum state (i.e like a bit from 1 to 0) to match another photon, at a distance of 1200km with zero effective latency. We still have only a very rudimentary understanding as to how the hell it is doing this only that under a very specific scenario it works, consistently. Over time this could become the key to communicating with networks at immense distances, for instance a transmitter on mars transmitting with conventional radio waves, limited with the rather pedestrian speed of light has a latency of between 4 and 24 minutes depending on orbital phase, with a quantum entanglement based system we could potentially do this with a 0ms latency as quantum states appear to be unaffected by distance as long as you can keep them 'entangled'/paired.

It also could have an immense affect on how we perform cloud computing.

Simpo Two

85,150 posts

264 months

Monday 17th July 2017
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The boggling thing for me is that it makes the speed of light look like a 30mph zone. There have to be possibilities beyond how fast you can download your tunes from Amazon.

So what is the key to interstellar travel, that or Warp drive (artificial wormholes) we wonder?

pherlopolus

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157 months

Monday 17th July 2017
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Simpo Two said:
The boggling thing for me is that it makes the speed of light look like a 30mph zone. There have to be possibilities beyond how fast you can download your tunes from Amazon.

So what is the key to interstellar travel, that or Warp drive (artificial wormholes) we wonder?
My money is on this https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alcubierre_drive

otolith

55,899 posts

203 months

Monday 17th July 2017
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My understanding is that it's not theoretically possible to use this to transmit meaningful information ftl.

Terminator X

14,922 posts

203 months

Tuesday 18th July 2017
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caelite said:
I wish people would stop using the term 'teleported' as it really is missleading to the layman, quantum entanglement is an amazing technology, and is the key for long distance communication on a solar level where light is just too damn slow, but teleportation of tangible matter it is not.

Essentially what they have managed to do is have a photon change quantum state (i.e like a bit from 1 to 0) to match another photon, at a distance of 1200km with zero effective latency. We still have only a very rudimentary understanding as to how the hell it is doing this only that under a very specific scenario it works, consistently. Over time this could become the key to communicating with networks at immense distances, for instance a transmitter on mars transmitting with conventional radio waves, limited with the rather pedestrian speed of light has a latency of between 4 and 24 minutes depending on orbital phase, with a quantum entanglement based system we could potentially do this with a 0ms latency as quantum states appear to be unaffected by distance as long as you can keep them 'entangled'/paired.

It also could have an immense affect on how we perform cloud computing.
Will we be able to telephone Oz with no delay then?

TX.

scorp

8,783 posts

228 months

Tuesday 18th July 2017
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otolith said:
My understanding is that it's not theoretically possible to use this to transmit meaningful information ftl.
I also thought it is not possible to send information faster than light, even with entanglement.

mondeoman

11,430 posts

265 months

Saturday 22nd July 2017
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