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[quote]Scientists from Japan and Australia have made a huge scientific breakthrough by successfully teleporting packets of light from one area to another.
The mind-bending project, led by Noriyuki Lee at the University of Tokyo, could lead to the creation of super-powerful quantum computers and revolutionise the telecommunications industry.
The team managed to teleport wave packets of light by destroying them in one place and re-creating them in another.
It's an incredible process that means transmitting large volumes of complex quantum information could be quicker than is currently possible.
The quantum physics term behind this experiment is 'entanglement'. It means that two particles can be bonded in such a way that even when separated by large distances, they are still linked. So what happens to one affects the other.
The team linked packets of light to half a pair of entangled particles. They destroyed one of the particles and the light itself, leaving just one remaining particle. This particle still contained detailed information about the light which they could then use to rebuild the original particle.
'Schrodinger's cat'
The process involves 'Schrodinger's cat'. Unfortunately it's not a real feline, but a hypothetical experiment first carried out in the 1935.
Schrödinger envisioned in a cat in a sealed box with a small amount of radioactive material and a Geiger counter measuring radiation. If the atom decayed the counter would release cyanide into the box and kill the cat.
According to quantum mechanics, the cat is neither dead nor alive. Until someone opens the box both possibilities exist. It's supposed to illustrate how in quantum mechanics particles can exist in suspended states of multiple possibilities.
The team at the University of Tokyo were able to put the light wave in a 'Schrödinger's cat' state with the help of a machine simply called 'The Teleporter', and make it have two opposite phases at the same time.
Professor Elanor Huntington, who was part of the research team, told ABC News: "What we've done is take a macroscopic beam of light and put it into a quantum superposition, which is extremely fragile, and teleported that from one place to another."
Doing this demonstrates that - for the first time - blocks of complex quantum information can now be carried by light.
"If we can do this, we can do just about any form of communication needed for any quantum technology," she said.
Unfortunately the breakthrough doesn't mean we'll ever be able to transport human beings, Star Trek style. At present even bacteria is far too complex to be transported.
Written by Orlando Parfitt[/quote]
Thats cool, be nice to travel to countries via a teleport.
I hope this means we'll get basically lagless internet/communication in a few years.
[editline]16th April 2011[/editline]
[QUOTE=Vasili;29202878]Thats cool, be nice to travel to countries via a teleport.[/QUOTE]
No you donkey, did you even read the article?
[QUOTE=Vasili;29202878]Thats cool, be nice to travel to countries via a teleport.[/QUOTE]
It said destroying and recreating, i think that would kill you and rebirth you as a mindless braindead hunk of flesh.
[QUOTE=Vasili;29202878]Thats cool, be nice to travel to countries via a teleport.[/QUOTE]
Fuck countries! [i]We could go to other star systems![/i]
Teleportation?!
Holy shit.
[quote=OP]At present even bacteria is far too complex to be transported.[/quote]
Too bad, though the scientists got all the time they need.
Makes me want to skip 1000 years.
Your avatar
[QUOTE=RG4;29203027]Your avatar[/QUOTE]
Mine? I know, it's badass as fuck.
Read the article, kids. Teleporting a single atom, bacteria even far too complex..
Obligatory :science:
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A human Fax Machine,huh?
[QUOTE=Bat-shit;29203058]Mine? I know, it's badass as fuck.[/QUOTE]
No it's just the Combine use teleportation and teleportation is how Half Life started
It's as if no one read the article.
[QUOTE=MeMassiveFag;29203099]It's as if no one read the article.[/QUOTE]
That's facepunch for you.
This is pretty much a cloning thing but they destroy the first entity?
[QUOTE=AaronM202;29202974]It said destroying and recreating, i think that would kill you and rebirth you as a mindless braindead hunk of flesh.[/QUOTE]
Look
YOU WILL NOT DESTROY MY AMBITION.
That's pretty neato, even though it was not what I expected
[QUOTE=cqbcat;29202975]Fuck countries! [i]We could go to other star systems![/i][/QUOTE]
I was thinking Paris
[QUOTE=Vasili;29202878]Thats cool, be nice to travel to countries via a teleport.[/QUOTE]
It's amazing of how many people on facepunch just read the title and make assumptions.
[QUOTE=cqbcat;29202975]Fuck countries! [i]We could go to other star systems![/i][/QUOTE]
no
[QUOTE=Downsider;29203064]Read the article, kids. Teleporting a single atom, bacteria even far too complex..[/QUOTE]
They sent light, not an atom. Light is a particle/wave, not an atom. Did you read the article, kid? :downs:
[QUOTE=Pasalaqcua;29203235]It's amazing of how many people on facepunch just read the title and make assumptions.[/QUOTE]
Assumptions..?
I think we are speaking on behalf of our brothers yet to be born in a thousand years
[QUOTE=Pasalaqcua;29203235]It's amazing of how many people on facepunch just read the title and make assumptions.[/QUOTE]
I read the artical
I said it would be nice to get teleports as a method of travel. But this is against the law of Facepunch to think outside the box. If you honestly thought I that actually assumed they had made human transporting teleports then a lot of you are quick to judge.
[QUOTE=Bat-shit;29203344]Assumptions..?
I think we are speaking on behalf of our brothers yet to be born in a thousand years[/QUOTE]
That means it's not your brother, as that would imply your parents living for another thousand years.
The word you're looking for is brethren.
I hope this becomes the standard for internet
I'm sure someone already done this
[QUOTE=Vasili;29203381]I read the artical
I said it would be nice to get teleports as a method of travel. But this is against the law of Facepunch to think outside the box. If you honestly thought I that actually assumed they had made human transporting teleports then a lot of you are quick to judge.[/QUOTE]
I know it sounds stupid but I would [B]never[/B] go into a teleporter.
Not because I would be scared of just not coming out the other end but what if you were destroyed and then it was basically a copy, nobody would ever be able to tell either.
I dont think I would be comfortable to be destroyed and rebuilt. It worries me.
That sounds legit, but I'd never do it just cause you could be destroyed like Fatman55, and it'd be creepy.
and then we never hear about it
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