Researchers Succeed at Quantum Teleportation Breakthrough

[AgentNein]

They called it the "teleporter", how creative.

I'm sure once there's a marketing aspect in all of this it'll have a super fun, sexy yet inexplicable new name. The Quantum Leaper! Hmm, fun but needs more sexy. Gonna start working on the infomercial now.

 

[Tulks]

Petabyte, anyone?

Isn't that a vegetarian restaurant?

OT: Good to see pure research still making headlines. I'm increasingly excited about a future I'll likely never see.

 

[Lagslayer]

I've been lurking around the site for a while and just registered to comment on this article.

If what it says is true, then they have not "teleported" anything. They have just sent information using light instead of electricity. It's a milestone, but not anything close to actual teleportation.

 

[Dhatz]

lets not forget light processors will be here way before quantum computing. I imagine if they made quantum pair a reality, there could be lagness data transfer anywhere in space(but you must count with relativity of time between both ends of it), just like the hologram to Illusive man.

For superior data storage tehnology: racetrack memory.

 

[silasbufu]

That picture is both impressive and confusing to me.

Petabyte, anyone?

Isn't that a vegetarian restaurant?

That's the funniest pun I've seen in a long time. Thanks

 

[ark123]

Teleporting human beings is impossible. Here's how I figure that:
If you can separate every atom in a person, transport them somewhere, and reassemble them, there's no reason why you shouldn't be able to just take atoms out of nature and assemble them the same way. That means you'd be able to clone a person, but consider this: if you just clone yourself, clearly your consciousness isn't transferred.
So why would the use of your own atoms keep your consciousness? I mean clearly the resulting person would be identical to you, but you wouldn't be that person.

And yes, I'm aware this is convoluted and weird, but it does make sense.

 

[Lagslayer]

Teleporting human beings is impossible. Here's how I figure that:
If you can separate every atom in a person, transport them somewhere, and reassemble them, there's no reason why you shouldn't be able to just take atoms out of nature and assemble them the same way. That means you'd be able to clone a person, but consider this: if you just clone yourself, clearly your consciousness isn't transferred.
So why would the use of your own atoms keep your consciousness? I mean clearly the resulting person would be identical to you, but you wouldn't be that person.

And yes, I'm aware this is convoluted and weird, but it does make sense.

Not impossible, that I can see. Physics says that a theoretical wave of pure energy passes through objects without interacting with them. I'm not saying "pure energy" is really possible(because that really is impossible), but if all of your particles could be evenly excited with energy and then all made to go in the same direction, your entire being could act as an energy wave, or at least become infinitely close without reaching a pure energy state. You could then be de-excited (or whatever the technical term is) at the other end. If done properly, this would preserve all electrical signals and matter as it would have normally been had you never been teleported in the first place. Alternately, the "read your data, break you down, and rebuild you at the other end" theory could be extended to reading your electric signals as well, preserving your brain data.