Scientists Just Teleported an Object From Earth Into...
It's a photon but how cool is that

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sugar&smoke


Aether Muffin


Lady Stardust
oh my god

enLightened
the title is misleading, since with quantum teleportation you're not teleporting an object from one spot to anyone, you're teleporting the qubit, which is like... the metadata?

enLightened
the photon didn't move, but the qubit/metadata from it got moved to another photon

enLightened
which, as the article mentioned, is a pretty big thing for future communication system development

Exacerangutan
... the whole article is misleading if you aren't already familiar with the topic, tbh

enLightened
yeah, it is, thanks pop science articles

Seijin CC
Booo

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It's still pretty cool

Seijin CC
:3

enLightened
Oh it's very cool!

miles you ass
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E.S. Levi
Still, instantaneous transportation of information has huge implications.

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now instagram will be even faster |D /shot

E.S. Levi
Astronaut selfies!

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XD noice

Pteryx
Mm, being able to do this is how you get practical communications with off-Earth colonies. Even if we can't in any practical sense break the light barrier any other way, just being able to do this really helps.

beachcryptid


Exacerangutan
I'm skeptical about whether the article is portraying accurately whether actual information can be conveyed faster than light, because that has implications not just for technology but for causality being optional >_>

Exacerangutan
either that or relativity doesn't actually work quite the way we think it does

enLightened
Quantum teleportation is still speed of light, we haven't broken that barrier yet

Exacerangutan
yeah that was my understanding as well, but the article doesn't exactly explain that :X