Well, the thing about the uncertainty principle is that if you were to make sure that the particles creating the teleported object were accurately mapped, (doing a position calculation) close enough that they would in fact accurately recreate the object and not just collapse and fall apart, the energies given would be too far off for the entire molecules to be stable.
thus a 99.9999998% accurate position means the energies could be almost anything.
I'm also curious as to the theoretical physicists proof that teleporting people is possible. Most classes on the subject in fact start by proving that it is impossible..., engineering totally apart from anything.
Quantum communication doen't really hold the possibility of real-time communication, as it has been shown that it is impossible to send inforation faster than the speed of light. This really only has a a potential in the encryption that was spoken of.
It's interesting that we were just talking about this very article (well the actual release, not this article about it) in a analytical mechanics class I'm taking. One of the things that wasn't mentioned in this article was the fact that the beam of light cloned was only done so to about 66% accuracy. I'm sort of kept from going into more details about this by my own fairly limited grasp on the matrix mechanics, but as the clone wasn't perfect, the uncertainty principle was upheld. It is fairly worrisome to see this study spun much out of proportion though. The opening blurb about Captain Kirk only reinforces untrue stereotypes about the potential of quantum teleportation. Alas, if journalists were physicists...
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Well, the thing about the uncertainty principle is that if you were to make sure that the particles creating the teleported object were accurately mapped, (doing a position calculation) close enough that they would in fact accurately recreate the object and not just collapse and fall apart, the energies given would be too far off for the entire molecules to be stable.
thus a 99.9999998% accurate position means the energies could be almost anything.
I'm also curious as to the theoretical physicists proof that teleporting people is possible. Most classes on the subject in fact start by proving that it is impossible..., engineering totally apart from anything.
Quantum communication doen't really hold the possibility of real-time communication, as it has been shown that it is impossible to send inforation faster than the speed of light. This really only has a a potential in the encryption that was spoken of.
It's interesting that we were just talking about this very article (well the actual release, not this article about it) in a analytical mechanics class I'm taking. One of the things that wasn't mentioned in this article was the fact that the beam of light cloned was only done so to about 66% accuracy. I'm sort of kept from going into more details about this by my own fairly limited grasp on the matrix mechanics, but as the clone wasn't perfect, the uncertainty principle was upheld. It is fairly worrisome to see this study spun much out of proportion though. The opening blurb about Captain Kirk only reinforces untrue stereotypes about the potential of quantum teleportation. Alas, if journalists were physicists...