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Mathematical Breakthrough Sets Out Rules For More Effective Teleportation
dsinc sends this news from the University of Cambridge:
"For the last ten years, theoretical physicists have shown that the intense connections generated between particles as established in the quantum law of ‘entanglement’ may hold the key to eventual teleportation of information. Now, for the first time, researchers have worked out how entanglement could be 'recycled' to increase the efficiency of these connections. Published in the journal Physical Review Letters, the result could conceivably take us a step closer to sci-fi style teleportation in the future, although this research is purely theoretical in nature. ... Previous teleportation protocols have fallen into one of two camps, those that could only send scrambled information requiring correction by the receiver or, more recently, "port-based" teleportation that doesn't require a correction, but needs an impractical amount of entanglement – as each object sent would destroy the entangled state. Now, physicists from Cambridge, University College London, and the University of Gdansk have developed a protocol to provide an optimal solution in which the entangled state is 'recycled,' so that the gateway between particles holds for the teleportation of multiple objects. They have even devised a protocol in which multiple qubits can be teleported simultaneously, although the entangled state degrades proportionally to the amount of qubits sent in both cases."
Bit optimistic, aren't we?
Suppose I teleport an object from a height of 1000 feet to a height of 0 feet about sea level. There has been a loss of gravitational potential energy -- where does this energy end up? Conversely, if teleporting the object to a higher elevation, how is the gravitational PE imparted to the system?
Maybe?
As I understand teleportation, the original 'you' is destroyed, and a duplicate 'you' is created in another location. I have always found this prospect disturbing. Could anyone familiar with quantum physics chime in? I'm curious as to whether a solution could be found which also preserved the original consciousness (and not by simply backing it up in another location).
Thank jebus, I was just remarking to one of my colleagues about how many seconds it took to beam down to the planet on our last mission.
Now things should go much smoother, live long and prosper Cambridge!
Mod me down, my New Earth Global Warmingist friends!
We are too ignorant.
Seriously.. "more effective teleportation", any kind of teleportation would be more effective.
Well, maybe someday that would help to create something like USB but without physical medium between two connected points? Yeah, I know, "no information can be transferred through QE", but still, who knows how else can we sidestep "obvious physical limitations"? Not now, but in 20, 50, 100 years from now? I'd like to imagine our world with such technology widely adapted, and I just can't - possibilities are truly mind-boggling. Ah, I just like news like this - helps to get out of winter depression a little.
Absence of proof != proof of absence.
This one is even better so far, half of the comments are retarded trying to be serious.
Maybe this teleportation can be used to create free energy by teleporting to a point with higher potential energy
Great! Lately I've been feeling that today's means of teleportation just weren't effective enough...
Instant teleportation of information according to STR violates causality. Is this a really serious science? Recycling state of quantum entanglement might be possible but as far as I know, quantum entangled particles don't "transport" information.
http://xkcd.com/465/
Maybe you wouldn't have to figure out which way to plug in the goddamn USB connector.
Am I the only one thinking in a sheldon cooper voice "The physics is theoretical but the fun is not."
Would this do:
memmove(&over_there, &me_here, sizeof(me)); ...or the more worrying (but possibly easier)...
memcpy(&over_there, &me_here, sizeof(me));
free(&me_here);
I don't care if there is a perfect replica of me at the other end...it's still not *me*.
Teleportation will most likely happen...Not in our lifetimes. The thing is, the original is destroyed. Are we prepared to die, and be reborn? I'd do it!
Yes, they already use some confusingly advanced technology there.
Absence of proof != proof of absence.
Even better, you can plug it in both ways at once. As the physicist said to the grad student.
systemd is Roko's Basilisk.
It is already a thing, if you've kept up on physics research instead of scifi, and don't expect it to be the same for both.
Is this going to help me untangle my Christmas tree lights?
My karma is bad. Don't get too close!!!
Theoretical physicists suck at math, physics, and engineering. Oh, and deductive reasoning.
IF countBeingsInChamber > 1 THEN GOTO abort_transfer
Given that if superluminal phenomena exist (quite possible) then the only issue will be with an observer who's limited to perceiving those phenomena at the speed of light. Since from their perspective, it will appear that causality has been violated
But from the perspective of one who has the technology to perceive superluminal phenomenon, causality will have been maintained.
Seeing as how I've been teleporting for many years, I'm going to suddenly give your so called rules any credence. Brawhaha....
Where's my fucking flying car?!
Table-ized A.I.
Hope they are aware of this before spending too much monies,
http://appft1.uspto.gov/netacgi/nph-Parser?Sect1=PTO2&Sect2=HITOFF&u=/netahtml/PTO/search-adv.html&r=1&f=G&l=50&d=PG01&p=1&S1=20060071122.PGNR.&OS=DN/20060071122&RS=DN/20060071122
-do note: this is akin to the person claiming barbie dolls he dug up were ancient relics.
And today, we have vehicles that utilize electricity generated from atomic decay, use EM fields to generate lift, and transport more, and heavier goods than 1930's aircraft... at higher speeds. Do you see how paradigm shifts work?
I've fallen off your lawn, and I can't get up.
That patents applies only to systems making use of gravitational waves, wormholes and hyperspace.
The Tao of math: The numbers you can count are not the real numbers.
We don't have inefficient teleportation let alone any teleportation. So take your mathematics and work it out with a pencil.
The mind conceives, the body achieves, the spirit manifests.