First Object Teleported to Earths Orbit
Discussion
Toaster said:
Not quite. But certainly interesting! I wish people would stop using the term 'teleported' as it really is missleading to the layman, quantum entanglement is an amazing technology, and is the key for long distance communication on a solar level where light is just too damn slow, but teleportation of tangible matter it is not.
Essentially what they have managed to do is have a photon change quantum state (i.e like a bit from 1 to 0) to match another photon, at a distance of 1200km with zero effective latency. We still have only a very rudimentary understanding as to how the hell it is doing this only that under a very specific scenario it works, consistently. Over time this could become the key to communicating with networks at immense distances, for instance a transmitter on mars transmitting with conventional radio waves, limited with the rather pedestrian speed of light has a latency of between 4 and 24 minutes depending on orbital phase, with a quantum entanglement based system we could potentially do this with a 0ms latency as quantum states appear to be unaffected by distance as long as you can keep them 'entangled'/paired.
It also could have an immense affect on how we perform cloud computing.
Essentially what they have managed to do is have a photon change quantum state (i.e like a bit from 1 to 0) to match another photon, at a distance of 1200km with zero effective latency. We still have only a very rudimentary understanding as to how the hell it is doing this only that under a very specific scenario it works, consistently. Over time this could become the key to communicating with networks at immense distances, for instance a transmitter on mars transmitting with conventional radio waves, limited with the rather pedestrian speed of light has a latency of between 4 and 24 minutes depending on orbital phase, with a quantum entanglement based system we could potentially do this with a 0ms latency as quantum states appear to be unaffected by distance as long as you can keep them 'entangled'/paired.
It also could have an immense affect on how we perform cloud computing.
Simpo Two said:
The boggling thing for me is that it makes the speed of light look like a 30mph zone. There have to be possibilities beyond how fast you can download your tunes from Amazon.
So what is the key to interstellar travel, that or Warp drive (artificial wormholes) we wonder?
My money is on this https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alcubierre_driveSo what is the key to interstellar travel, that or Warp drive (artificial wormholes) we wonder?
caelite said:
I wish people would stop using the term 'teleported' as it really is missleading to the layman, quantum entanglement is an amazing technology, and is the key for long distance communication on a solar level where light is just too damn slow, but teleportation of tangible matter it is not.
Essentially what they have managed to do is have a photon change quantum state (i.e like a bit from 1 to 0) to match another photon, at a distance of 1200km with zero effective latency. We still have only a very rudimentary understanding as to how the hell it is doing this only that under a very specific scenario it works, consistently. Over time this could become the key to communicating with networks at immense distances, for instance a transmitter on mars transmitting with conventional radio waves, limited with the rather pedestrian speed of light has a latency of between 4 and 24 minutes depending on orbital phase, with a quantum entanglement based system we could potentially do this with a 0ms latency as quantum states appear to be unaffected by distance as long as you can keep them 'entangled'/paired.
It also could have an immense affect on how we perform cloud computing.
Will we be able to telephone Oz with no delay then?Essentially what they have managed to do is have a photon change quantum state (i.e like a bit from 1 to 0) to match another photon, at a distance of 1200km with zero effective latency. We still have only a very rudimentary understanding as to how the hell it is doing this only that under a very specific scenario it works, consistently. Over time this could become the key to communicating with networks at immense distances, for instance a transmitter on mars transmitting with conventional radio waves, limited with the rather pedestrian speed of light has a latency of between 4 and 24 minutes depending on orbital phase, with a quantum entanglement based system we could potentially do this with a 0ms latency as quantum states appear to be unaffected by distance as long as you can keep them 'entangled'/paired.
It also could have an immense affect on how we perform cloud computing.
TX.
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