Slashdot Mirror
Quantum Teleportation Achieved Over 16 km In China
Laxori666 writes "Scientists in China have succeeded in teleporting information between photons farther than ever before. They transported quantum information over a free space distance of 16 km (10 miles), much farther than the few hundred meters previously achieved, which brings us closer to transmitting information over long distances without the need for a traditional signal."
Someone should tell those xkcd guys to take a bit more care before posting their cartoons - they seem to keep missing out the final frame which is the one that would normally contain the final punchline thus causing the reader to find it funny.
Gentoo Linux - another day, another USE flag.
Information can't travel faster than light you moron
Dare I say, if you don't find xkcd funny, the material might be somewhat... not aimed at you.
Ah, so I assume the target market is "pretentious know-it-all nerds who like to explain their isolation and irrelevance to themselves as being a consequence of their 'quirky' personality and their amazingly unique way of seeing the world via maths, science and amazing ideas and philosophies".
I imagine it also helps if one has had no previous interactions with women, thus enabling a suspension of disbelief in relation to the excruciatingly lame love/sex themed-comics.
Humour is highly relative, and contrary to what you imply it is entirely possible for someone intelligent to not find xkcd funny even though it relies on references and (alleged) subtleties which the average McDonald's employee might not understand.
Read Pynchon.
it's not just that "you cannot predict which of the two [states] you will measure";
I never said such a thing.
You are a pathetic lying swine.
THIS is what i said:
You will either measure a Zero or a One. You cannot predict which of the two you will measure.
YOU are the only one here blathering about classical states before any measurement is performed. You intentionally added the word "states" to a sentence that clearly and unambiguously was making reference to the outcome of measurements.
You're falsifying other peoples words such as to make them say something that is wrong and then you go and insult them over the wrong thing that YOU inserted?
Wow. That's a new low.
If you don't even know the most basic stuff about quantum mechanics (as is clear from the post), please educate yourself[...]
I'm a physicist. I have a PhD. *I* have already done my homework.
You haven't.
We're all born with nothing.
If you die in debt, you're ahead.