Quantum Energy Teleportation Breakthrough? Don’t Beam Me Up Yet.
In recent years, scientists have learned how to use quantum entanglement to “teleport” information between photons and atoms at the speed of light, without the information traveling across the space between them. Now Masahiro Hotta at Tohoku University in Japan claims he has learned how to teleport energy.
Here’s how it would work: Start by entangling two particles and separating them. Measure the first particle, which injects quantum energy. Finally, a measurement of the second particle extracts the energy added to the first particle.
Sorry, quantum teleportation is only available to particles at the atomic and subatomic levels, so no Star Trek-style transporters anytime soon. And we’re still a long way from even a remotely-powered cell phone that never loses juice. If practical applications come about, we’ll likely see them first in extremely fast quantum computers. Until then, physicists have a new way of studying quantum energy and quantum information.
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Quantum teleportation is not transportation
Note the scare quotes around the term teleportation. As the article says, only information is being duplicated: the technique cannot move matter such as your body from one place to another.
But wait!!!!
What if I separated a proton from my body, entangled it with a proton in the air, then put it back a femtosecond later, and kept doing that over and over again, until each one was entangled? Then it would still be atomic particles teleporting, they'd just be making up the atoms in my body, right?
Right?!
Oh, fine. We're not there yet.
In theory, Yes. However to
In theory, Yes.
However to break down the cells in your body to a subatomic level it would require a computer with a large ammount of memory (ie exibytes/yotabytes) and a high speed processor.
Let's say we did have that kind of technology. It would, in essence, kill you then rebuild a clone of you.
I'd like to see it happen before I die, it would be an amazing, all be it dangerous door to open.
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