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This story gets a little heady and, to be honest, we're not entirely sure we completely understand it ourselves. What we do know is that scientists have made a huge advancement in the field of teleportation, taking a step necessary to the development of quantum computers.Scientists managed to teleport information from one atom to another from a distance of about one meter. While this isn't really getting us much closer to the 'Star Trek'-like ability to beam people around the universe, it does allow for instantaneous transmission of information without it passing through physical space. Previously, similar accomplishments have been made with photons (the basic unit of light) and between nearby atoms with the assistance of a third, but these have not proven useful for the long-term storage and long-distance transmission of information.
This breakthrough was accomplished using a phenomena known as quantum entanglement. Atomic and sub-atomic particles can be entangled, meaning their states (such as spin or polarization) are linked, regardless of distance and obstacles. The state is unknowable until a measurement of either particle is made (see Schrödinger's cat), but once the state of one particle is measured the state of the other is instantly determined.
Once the atoms are entwined, the state of atom A is measured, destroying the data, which then reappears when the scientists go to retrieve it from atom B. The information isn't transmitted from A to B, it "teleports," instantaneously disappearing and reappearing with out any interaction between the atoms.
Not confused enough? Hit the read link for more head-scratching detail on the experiment. [From: FOXNews.com]
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Comments
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Subscribe to commentsparrotsrnutsJan 26th 2009 1:28PM
I BELIEVE THIS IS MORE LIKE GRAVITY...AND THE GRAVITONS (SOMETHING WE DON'T UNDERSTAND WELL YET) AND THE INTERACTION OF THOSE GRAVITONS IN THE POLARIZATION OF THE MOLECULES !!
CJJan 26th 2009 1:52PM
COOL! Maybe I should say, "WOW!"
AngiebabyJan 26th 2009 1:53PM
All I can ask is, "Didn't ANYBODY see the movie, 'The Fly'"?
matdematJan 26th 2009 2:01PM
40 minutes and 10 wikipedia articles later I still have no idea what is going on here.
hÒÓtJan 28th 2009 10:17AM
Physicist Richard Feynman is quoted as having said that "if you think you understand quantum mechanics, you don't understand quantum mechanics."
danhawk911Jan 26th 2009 3:16PM
so yeah for getting destroyed and then cloned whenever you deiced to have Scotty beam you up.
MalaycobraJan 26th 2009 11:00PM
I'm reminded of that scene in Bruce Almighty, when Steve Carell is reading the news and Jim Carrey messes with his voice.
Thats about what I took away from this post...
utopian websurferAug 16th 2009 5:56AM
teleportation can be achieved simply by aligning & synchronizing the magnetic field of the start location with the destination location, like 2 exact magnets with a hole in the center placed along a track that only allows the 2 magnets to sync and join their magnetic fields in 1 direction only to eachother where the hole in the 1st magnet lines up wih the hole in the second magnet when the magnetic fields attract eachother directly to eachother only and evenly, then when the magnetic fields line up including he magneic field of the centered holes of each magnet, then in theory it should be possible to teleport thru the aligned magnetic holes of each up and down field without the magnets actually touching eachother allowing portation of an object thru magnet fields of the aligned holes directly from point a to point b in one linear direction but the magnetic fields would have to be of sufficient strength and matching frequency, likely an electromagnetic gate tuned to one another in perfect synchronicity in order for it to work. teleportation is based on aligning fields of electromagnetism synchronized from one location directly only to one other location where the 2 synchronized magnetic fields can only interact with eachother allowing the portation of an object thru vast distances by only a few steps at most like what some science fiction is shown on tv.just like stepping thru a tuned magnetic
doorway. skipping all of the physical space inbetween.
Utopian Websurfer 8/09
mark dysonFeb 22nd 2010 11:12AM
Im really excited by this discovery, i had always though that teletransportation
was possible about 15 years ago i had this notion that matter waves could somehow be re-harmonized but i was thinking about parallel universes at the time, it was only later that i realized that they could be involved in the use of teletransportation. The term matterwave is not much used now i dont think, but it is basically another way of looking at qauntum physical events and quantum tunneling which is effectively what teletransportation is an extension of.
when i studied physics along time ago it was not thought possible to harness matter waves in any way. In fact matterwaves travel faster than the speed of light
which means they travel backward in time. It is precisely this attribute that
most likely gives the impression of a message being instantaneous when its
group wave is reharmonized.
Skylar AdamsApr 20th 2013 8:13AM
Teleportation is achieved through the manuplilation of molecules and atoms(the the manupilation of atoms is more of duplication,reverse duplication and creation of matter)therefore I concur with the theory/findings