Shaun A. Saunders sends in this article from LiveScience: With the movie Jumper opening nationwide, comes an interest in teleportation and some of the interesting science behind the real thing.
The really fascinating aspect about teleportation is that it really exists in the real world..... well sorta. The fact is that physicists have teleported things over miles. It doesn't violate the laws of physics. There's a huge — or rather, very tiny — caveat, however. For now, it only works with a single photon. When scientists talk about teleportation, they don't typically mean teleporting matter from one place to another as in the new movie. Rather, teleportation involves capturing the essential information about something — its "quantum state" — to recreate it exactly someplace else.
Complete article here
The really fascinating aspect about teleportation is that it really exists in the real world..... well sorta. The fact is that physicists have teleported things over miles. It doesn't violate the laws of physics. There's a huge — or rather, very tiny — caveat, however. For now, it only works with a single photon. When scientists talk about teleportation, they don't typically mean teleporting matter from one place to another as in the new movie. Rather, teleportation involves capturing the essential information about something — its "quantum state" — to recreate it exactly someplace else.
Complete article here
No comments:
Post a Comment