| In one episode
of Doctor Who we see yet another fantastical feat:
aliens come down angrily and teleport an entire
hospital up to the moon. So we asked ourselves, is
teleportation possible? Upon doing a little bit of
searching we discovered that fairly recently, a team
of physicists successfully teleported a quantum state
of a photon to a crystal over 25 kilometers away
through a fiber optic cable. The only problem with
doing this with a hospital is that one, a hospital
isn't made of photons, and two I doubt that a fiber
optic cable would sufficiently do the job as a result.
However, the idea of teleporting even a small photon
is really cool. According to the article, the quantum
state of the photon is able to hold onto information
under extreme conditions, including the different
between traveling as light or becoming stored in the
crystal like matter. |
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Alas, further
into the article they say that the photon did not
physically "teleport" as we are used to hearing about
in science fiction shows, which probably includes
Doctor Who. It is still impossible to move someone's
body, or a whole hospital, from one place to another
in a matter of seconds. The way that this photon
teleportation worked was that they were able to infer
the information on the distant photon with the
information about the photon in the crystal.
Basically, by understanding one of the objects the
other object was already understood. However, it would
be really cool if one day we could actually teleport
an object from one place to another..would be being
the key part in that sentence. |
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