Teleportation is Here! First Object Teleported From Earth to Orbit

Jul 12, 17 8:42

Post #1 of 17 (2119 views)

Now THIS is the 21st century I was hoping for. Soon, it'll be all "Beam me up, Scotty" and such. :-)

Okay, so it was just a photon, but you have to start somewhere, right? LOL!

First Object Teleported from Earth to Orbit - MIT Technology Review

"Today, the Micius team announced the results of its first experiments. The team created the first satellite-to-ground quantum network, in the process smashing the record for the longest distance over which entanglement has been measured. And they’ve used this quantum network to teleport the first object from the ground to orbit.

Teleportation has become a standard operation in quantum optics labs around the world. The technique relies on the strange phenomenon of entanglement. This occurs when two quantum objects, such as photons, form at the same instant and point in space and so share the same existence. In technical terms, they are described by the same wave function."

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Re: Teleportation is Here! First Object Teleported From Earth to Orbit [big kahuna] [ In reply to ]

Jul 12, 17 10:48

Post #2 of 17 (2067 views)

As I understand it, it is more of an instant transfer of information. Still very cool. Could eliminate the delay in communication for deep space exploration.

Re: Teleportation is Here! First Object Teleported From Earth to Orbit [big kahuna] [ In reply to ]

Jul 12, 17 11:47

Post #3 of 17 (2038 views)

F.. Teleportors. We're one step away from Replicators B*tch.

https://www.livescience.com/...-printed-cheese.html

Well, if you wanted everything replicated to taste like cheese.

Re: Teleportation is Here! First Object Teleported From Earth to Orbit [big kahuna] [ In reply to ]

Jul 12, 17 11:51

Post #4 of 17 (2033 views)

All kinds of awesome!

Re: Teleportation is Here! First Object Teleported From Earth to Orbit [ubdawg] [ In reply to ]

Jul 12, 17 12:32

Post #5 of 17 (2008 views)

ubdawg wrote:

F.. Teleportors. We're one step away from Replicators B*tch.

https://www.livescience.com/...-printed-cheese.html

Well, if you wanted everything replicated to taste like cheese.

Well, can they replicate me? But with Ah-nuld muscles this time around? :-)

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Re: Teleportation is Here! First Object Teleported From Earth to Orbit [big kahuna] [ In reply to ]

Jul 12, 17 12:49

Post #6 of 17 (2000 views)

if you were in the tropics and they teleported you as a copy right down to the most elemental particle to the north pole (as examples) - - - would you be in two places at once, one hot and one cold?

Re: Teleportation is Here! First Object Teleported From Earth to Orbit [LorenzoP] [ In reply to ]

Jul 12, 17 12:53

Post #7 of 17 (1999 views)

LorenzoP wrote:

if you were in the tropics and they teleported you as a copy right down to the most elemental particle to the north pole (as examples) - - - would you be in two places at once, one hot and one cold?

Had this debate with the wife recently. If you are teleported/copied, do the operators have to delete/kill the original?

Re: Teleportation is Here! First Object Teleported From Earth to Orbit [knewbike] [ In reply to ]

Jul 12, 17 13:45

Post #8 of 17 (1954 views)

knewbike wrote:

LorenzoP wrote:

if you were in the tropics and they teleported you as a copy right down to the most elemental particle to the north pole (as examples) - - - would you be in two places at once, one hot and one cold?

Had this debate with the wife recently. If you are teleported/copied, do the operators have to delete/kill the original?

If you have time, here's a well written (and funny) take on the subject: https://waitbutwhy.com/...t-makes-you-you.html. Scroll down to "The Teletransporter Thought Experiment".

Re: Teleportation is Here! First Object Teleported From Earth to Orbit [knewbike] [ In reply to ]

Jul 12, 17 14:14

Post #9 of 17 (1931 views)

Next we fold space.

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Re: Teleportation is Here! First Object Teleported From Earth to Orbit [Doru] [ In reply to ]

Jul 12, 17 14:44

Post #10 of 17 (1917 views)

Is this like the trash can on the computer where it is not really deleted but available to be overwritten?

Re: Teleportation is Here! First Object Teleported From Earth to Orbit [jkca1] [ In reply to ]

Jul 12, 17 14:47

Post #11 of 17 (1915 views)

jkca1 wrote:

Next we fold space.

This could solve my new weight problem.

Re: Teleportation is Here! First Object Teleported From Earth to Orbit [knewbike] [ In reply to ]

Jul 13, 17 10:17

Post #12 of 17 (1804 views)

knewbike wrote:

As I understand it, it is more of an instant transfer of information. Still very cool. Could eliminate the delay in communication for deep space exploration.

Yeah it's not teleportation like anyone would think of as actual teleportation.

They basically had a particle on earth and a particle on the satellite and were able to transfer the quantum state of the earth particle to the one on the satellite. Cool but not groundbreaking for the reasons they're acting like in the news.

The groundbreaking is the distance not the process. The process is done easily on earth in labs. But it is starting to set the stage for quantum internet.

Re: Teleportation is Here! First Object Teleported From Earth to Orbit [Grant.Reuter] [ In reply to ]

Jul 13, 17 13:56

Post #13 of 17 (1757 views)

Grant.Reuter wrote:

knewbike wrote:

As I understand it, it is more of an instant transfer of information. Still very cool. Could eliminate the delay in communication for deep space exploration.

Yeah it's not teleportation like anyone would think of as actual teleportation.

They basically had a particle on earth and a particle on the satellite and were able to transfer the quantum state of the earth particle to the one on the satellite. Cool but not groundbreaking for the reasons they're acting like in the news.

The groundbreaking is the distance not the process. The process is done easily on earth in labs. But it is starting to set the stage for quantum internet.

Someone on this thread, I think, mentioned the possibility of instantaneous (or as instantaneous as could be made) communication transmissions no matter the distance? Is that even possible?

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Re: Teleportation is Here! First Object Teleported From Earth to Orbit [knewbike] [ In reply to ]

Jul 13, 17 14:12

Post #14 of 17 (1751 views)

knewbike wrote:

LorenzoP wrote:

if you were in the tropics and they teleported you as a copy right down to the most elemental particle to the north pole (as examples) - - - would you be in two places at once, one hot and one cold?

Had this debate with the wife recently. If you are teleported/copied, do the operators have to delete/kill the original?

I believe this was thoroughly explored in the movie The Prestige. Great movie.

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=o4gHCmTQDVI

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Last edited by: Endo: Jul 13, 17 14:13

Re: Teleportation is Here! First Object Teleported From Earth to Orbit [big kahuna] [ In reply to ]

Jul 14, 17 9:40

Post #15 of 17 (1681 views)

big kahuna wrote:

Grant.Reuter wrote:

knewbike wrote:

As I understand it, it is more of an instant transfer of information. Still very cool. Could eliminate the delay in communication for deep space exploration.

Yeah it's not teleportation like anyone would think of as actual teleportation.

They basically had a particle on earth and a particle on the satellite and were able to transfer the quantum state of the earth particle to the one on the satellite. Cool but not groundbreaking for the reasons they're acting like in the news.

The groundbreaking is the distance not the process. The process is done easily on earth in labs. But it is starting to set the stage for quantum internet.

Someone on this thread, I think, mentioned the possibility of instantaneous (or as instantaneous as could be made) communication transmissions no matter the distance? Is that even possible?

That's basically what they did the two particles are quantum entangled so when the one particle changes its state the other one does also to the same thing.

I haven't read much about quantum internet but what I believe would happen would be similar to computers now instead of a bunch of 1's and 0's you have quantum states instead. You trigger the particles on your end to a specific quantum state which then triggers those instantly to change and that change is then decoded at the receivers end.

This is what they mean where they're saying a transmission could be fully encrypted. It's not that the encryption couldn't be broken. But there is nothing actually transmitted it is just two particles that are linked over space.

They still don't know why this happens and the math is so far above my head I don't know what most of the symbols they use in the theories even mean.

Re: Teleportation is Here! First Object Teleported From Earth to Orbit [Grant.Reuter] [ In reply to ]

Jul 14, 17 9:44

Post #16 of 17 (1676 views)

Consider my mind officially blown, sir. :-)

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Re: Teleportation is Here! First Object Teleported From Earth to Orbit [big kahuna] [ In reply to ]

Jul 14, 17 9:55

Post #17 of 17 (1670 views)

Haha it's really cool. There is no reason for the news to make it out for more than it is because it's awesome by itself.

I don't know how far off we are on it. Right now it seems to be at the "it's difficult until we figure out how to do it stage".

It's doesn't seem to be in the it's difficult because we have no idea how to even start stage anymore.

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