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Did I just hear, it turned inside out, and then it exploded? [Teleportation]
FlatEric
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So, some scientists have achieved quantum teleportation over a distance of 10 miles.
Pretty damn amazing, especially since the increased distance over previous experiments is so great.
So, is this the first step in the development of star trek like teleportation, or is it all a pipe dream?
edit: or talk about galaxy quest, that's fine too
Quantum teleportation has achieved a new milestone or, should we say, a new ten-milestone: scientists have recently had success teleporting information between photons over a free space distance of nearly ten miles, an unprecedented length. The researchers who have accomplished this feat note that this brings us closer to communicating information without needing a traditional signal, and that the ten miles they have reached could span the distance between the surface of the earth and space.
As we've explained before, "quantum teleportation" is quite different from how many people imagine teleportation to work. Rather than picking one thing up and placing it somewhere else, quantum teleportation involves entangling two things, like photons or ions, so their states are dependent on one another and each can be affected by the measurement of the other's state.
When one of the items is sent a distance away, entanglement ensures that changing the state of one causes the other to change as well, allowing the teleportation of quantum information, if not matter. However, the distance particles can be from each other has been limited so far to a number of meters.
Teleportation over distances of a few hundred meters has previously only been accomplished with the photons traveling in fiber channels to help preserve their state. In this particular experiment, researchers maximally entangled two photons using both spatial and polarization modes and sent the one with higher energy through a ten-mile-long free space channel. They found that the distant photon was still able to respond to changes in state of the photon they held onto even at this unprecedented distance.
However, the long-distance teleportation of a photon is only a small step towards developing applications for the procedure. While photons are good at transmitting information, they are not as good as ions at allowing manipulation, an advancement we'd need for encryption. Researchers were also able to maintain the fidelity of the long-distance teleportation at 89 percent— decent enough for information, but still dangerous for the whole-body human teleportation that we're all looking forward to.
Pretty damn amazing, especially since the increased distance over previous experiments is so great.
So, is this the first step in the development of star trek like teleportation, or is it all a pipe dream?
edit: or talk about galaxy quest, that's fine too
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I thought this was going to be a Galaxy Quest thread
but this story is pretty cool too I suppose
If you recognize the title, this thread can only hold disappointment
You are a queenslander!
Hello I am also
Need some stuff designed or printed? I can help with that.
Greetings sir, how goes it?
Though I am surprised that they're apparently building the communication thing from Mass Effect 2. I choose to believe Martin Sheen is funding the project.
don't mind pipe he's foaming at the mouth at the thought of another QLD poster
WA still leagues ahead of everyone else, pipe, by the way
They have people living there now? I thought it was all mining camps and brothels.
YEAH
YEAH I SAID IT
Actually genocide and sheep were our two most traditonal industries, though mining has certainly supplanted them.
interesting perspectives on it
mainly I reckon the problem is that people in WA know a chunk of that tax is coming from them and they don't know how much of what will be taken is slated to come back to WA
whereas over east their issue is that WA is profiting the most from resources belonging to the whole country
but then I just think that "look, these state lines are arbitrary lines that people drew in the sand, ok"
Im along the same lines, its taking a little cream from some super rich companies who are basically forigen owned anyway and sharing the wealth. I know i could do with some decent roads.
like
this extra 40%
what are they going to spend it on? where are they spending it? there has been no statement as to how the money is being used so over here in WA people are basically all YOU'RE STEALING MY MONEY AND I WON'T SEE ANY OF IT BECAUSE YOU CARE ABOUT THE EASTERN STATES MORE THAN YOU CARE ABOUT ME
on the plus side, it IS a profit tax, so really it does not impact individuals working in the mining business too significantly, but it does slow down investment and expansion
that can be construed as a good thing since mining is not a renewable industry, so really you're reducing the size of the boom,but allowing it to last longer
between Rudd's breaking of promises and Abbott's continued faux pas
If you're going to do a policy backflip, and I'll grant that sometimes that is necessary, you've got to think "Well the media is going to grill me on this, better prepare an excuse ahead of time and stick to it"
Instead of just crumbling and saying that you don't always tell the truth
we may want to consider moving the discussion into the AusPAX thread because I like FlatEric and I don't want him to kill us
Yes BHP is a foreign own company......
It is pretty insulting that an industry that supplies over a third of a nation's GDP is being kicked in the teeth, when it is the sole reason that the country did not go into recession.
Then ignoring the fact that WA does contribute massively on a per person scale on the budget already over taxing us further isn't particuarly nice!
Finally ending up with it's probably going to cost 30 thousand jobs!
Satans..... hints.....
He was tearing into Joe Hockey last night, though Joe did hold up significantly better than Tony had. At least I think so, they were talking a lot of finance and it was going over my head.
And this would go on top of the ever growing pile of things that Labor said they were going to do but didn't follow through with.
Satans..... hints.....
Turns out the trick is to observe the particles from the corner of your eye, and keep real quiet so they don't know you're there.
dude are you in brisbane? you should come to AusPax
also we should go to mana some time.
Need some stuff designed or printed? I can help with that.
it's really bad that the first thing I thought about was TF2 ON THE PA SERVERS WITH < 300 PING WOOOOO
Keep thinking big!
Sadly any neat space application for this tech would be horribley outdated by the time it reached anything neat.
Imagine something like Surrogate, but with a fake body millions and millions and millions of lightyears away on some planet like pandora.
Uhrg, I love living in the time we live in now, sure, but I can't help but think in another 100 or so years things will be so much damn cooler*.
*or a molten desert
Driving a Mars Rover with sub 2400000 ping
forget teleporting to Mars
teleporting across the street so I don't have to wait on cars is good enough for me
Im in toowoomba boss, but i have been pretty keen to check out mana, have you been? good times?
Satans..... hints.....