Researchers Succeed at Quantum Teleportation Breakthrough

[Doclector]

Thank god it's not real teleportation. Because;

1) The fly. The fly, the fly, the fly, the fly.

2) does no one think there is a real danger of them testing a real teleportation device, it being successful, then being rolled out hastily despite it actually in reality killing the user and merely creating a copy? This thought scares me. Imagine it, in the future we'd have thousands dying every day, and no one would even know. If it is discovered, I'd suggest using it for goods transport only, no biological entities.

But as it is, this is brundellfly-induced speculation, I'm all for faster computers.

 

[Mantonio]

Thank god it's not real teleportation. Because;

1) The fly. The fly, the fly, the fly, the fly.

2) does no one think there is a real danger of them testing a real teleportation device, it being successful, then being rolled out hastily despite it actually in reality killing the user and merely creating a copy? This thought scares me. Imagine it, in the future we'd have thousands dying every day, and no one would even know. If it is discovered, I'd suggest using it for goods transport only, no biological entities.

But as it is, this is brundellfly-induced speculation, I'm all for faster computers.

But on the other hand, technically you've died dozens of times already. Most (if not all) cells in your body get replaced every few years.

 

[FinalHeart95]

So, let's get this straight:
We can now teleport information a ton faster using light, with this information simultaneously being destroyed at one point and appearing at another, effectively existing and not existing at the same time.

Nobody actually understands quantum mechanics.

 

[Doclector]

Thank god it's not real teleportation. Because;

1) The fly. The fly, the fly, the fly, the fly.

2) does no one think there is a real danger of them testing a real teleportation device, it being successful, then being rolled out hastily despite it actually in reality killing the user and merely creating a copy? This thought scares me. Imagine it, in the future we'd have thousands dying every day, and no one would even know. If it is discovered, I'd suggest using it for goods transport only, no biological entities.

But as it is, this is brundellfly-induced speculation, I'm all for faster computers.

But on the other hand, technically you've died dozens of times already. Most (if not all) cells in your body get replaced every few years.

I was afraid you might bring up that philosophical mindfudge. Although am I right in thinking that some parts of the brain are not replaced?

 

[Mantonio]

Thank god it's not real teleportation. Because;

1) The fly. The fly, the fly, the fly, the fly.

2) does no one think there is a real danger of them testing a real teleportation device, it being successful, then being rolled out hastily despite it actually in reality killing the user and merely creating a copy? This thought scares me. Imagine it, in the future we'd have thousands dying every day, and no one would even know. If it is discovered, I'd suggest using it for goods transport only, no biological entities.

But as it is, this is brundellfly-induced speculation, I'm all for faster computers.

But on the other hand, technically you've died dozens of times already. Most (if not all) cells in your body get replaced every few years.

I was afraid you might bring up that philosophical mindfudge. Although am I right in thinking that some parts of the brain are not replaced?

I'm pretty sure it's ALL replaced multiple times throughout our lives.

Also, the scenario shown in The Fly wouldn't work here. Since it would recreate perfectly, it would recreate you, and the fly wherever it may have landed. No cross-contamination.

Because even if there weren't a fly, you'd end up being crossed with the germs on you and in you, wouldn't you?

 

[pacati]

They didn't do anything you couldn't do with 10^3477 Apple //e's working together.

 

[ZombieGenesis]

Thanks newsie! That little information about QBits is going straight into a near-future story I'm writing at the moment. I'm sure by 2090 they'll have this stuff down pat.

 

[Doclector]

Thank god it's not real teleportation. Because;

1) The fly. The fly, the fly, the fly, the fly.

2) does no one think there is a real danger of them testing a real teleportation device, it being successful, then being rolled out hastily despite it actually in reality killing the user and merely creating a copy? This thought scares me. Imagine it, in the future we'd have thousands dying every day, and no one would even know. If it is discovered, I'd suggest using it for goods transport only, no biological entities.

But as it is, this is brundellfly-induced speculation, I'm all for faster computers.

But on the other hand, technically you've died dozens of times already. Most (if not all) cells in your body get replaced every few years.

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y'know what? I'm just going to go with the whole immortal soul thing until morning when I have the energy to tackle such connundrums.

 

[Nocturnal Gentleman]

Why are people talking about having their own versions? How sustainable would mass production of such technology be? Especially with a population ever growing.

 

[viranimus]

Wow.. thats awesome. But exactly how is this supposed to relate to porn?

And if it doesnt, why are we wasting time with such nonsense?

 

[fulano]

I'm a bit of a slow learner, so somebody help me with this...
Did they actually manage to TELEPORT something?

Only Information, the debate continues as to whether information is the sort of something you are probably referring to.

This isn't teleportation perse. What they mean is that they could somehow transfer the information of one quantum state from one place to another (they had to destroy the original, though), which is hard shit.

Even if human transportation isn't exactly possible here, I do know where this CAN be used.

Internet shopping. Get a moderately sized transporter in every household, pay instantly by paypal, zap, you have your product. That might put walk-in stores out of business, though...

In fact, if they really wanted to be efficient, couldn't this be used as a quick cloning machine? If it didn't destroy the information on one side and just sent the information to the other, couldn't you have 2 burgers instead of one or 2 PS3's?

Or do I have the wrong understanding of how it works?

Yes. Plug that thing to a very, very, very good future 3D printer and you could replicate people endlessly and thus watch religion die instantly (Do we all share the same soul? Oh, noes! Or...wait! Maybe the machine makes souls!).

 

[Dukenstein]

Well, I hope this never happens...

Before: http://image.guardian.co.uk/sys-images/Arts/Arts_/Pictures/2007/02/23/thefly460.jpg

After: http://www.horrorstew.com/images/TheFly.jpg

What's worse, turning into a fly or a Jeff Goldblum?

 

[Eclectic Dreck]

And yet even with an incomprehensibly fast quantum computer we will not have made any significant progress solving the various intractable problems in computer science. Hell, ever computer ever made in history combined with the computational power of every mathematician who has ever lived cannot finish a problem that is order 2^n when n is, say, 300, before the sun goes out.

 

[Jamous]

Ah, the future, how I've missed you. Anyways; looking forward to see where we take this technology. It shall be EPIC.

 

[OutforEC]

Great, now I've got to look forward to the new iPort...

 

[Braedan]

As others have said already, no chance I would EVER step into a teleporter... as there's no way to know if you're still you on the other side.... sure it might be a dude that looks like me, sounds like me, and acts like me, it doesn't mean it's a duck.

 

[kael013]

The fastest computer in the entire world.

But when will printers become teleportation devices?

Bad news dude, you might actually die during it.

It would work via breaking you down into your component atoms, then beaming them to another place and reassembling them. You would in essence die during this. The person you come out as is not the same person you go in as.

It's a big philosophical kerfuffle.

If I remember my biology class correctly, your brain is where your memories (which define your personality)are stored. The neurons in every person's brain connect slightly differently, thus allowing you to have a unique "chain of thought". Therefore, the only way that your personality would change would be if the information stored in the brain's neurons (your memories) is deleted. In which case, you have bigger problems as you are now effectively a baby.

On the other hand, I've always wanted to be resurrected! Chicks dig that stuff, right?

 

[FalloutJack]

This is where the application of post-modernism is a good thing.

 

[RN7]

I'm a bit of a slow learner, so somebody help me with this...
Did they actually manage to TELEPORT something?

Only Information, the debate continues as to whether information is the sort of something you are probably referring to.

Possibly. Hopefully. Even if it is, transportation of living organisms is still a good ways off, assuming that this quantum computing information transferral does also in fact apply to said organism...

Still an exciting event for a physics/science in its entirety nerd like me. And everyone else. You should ALL be excited. Scientific discovery, no matter how large or small, is always a wonderous thing.