Comment Reality of it (Score 1) 216
Some people seem a lil confused here about the teleportation aspects of this, but the reality of it is that quantum entanglement doesn't allow the teleportation of an object to any arbitrary location... you have to first split your particles (to create the entangled state), then move one of them to another location. Changes made to one of them would have the oposite effect upon the other. The theory is along the lines of, if you use one of these particles to "observe" another particle (eg, firing them at each other), the energy changes would be mirrored by the other. As we all know, observing something destroys (or at least, changes) it. As the oposite effect happens at the other side, this could be used in combination with another paticle to recreate what you just destroyed. So you could only transfer your object to whereever you've put your reciever.
However you do run into problems... firstly, if you don't reacreate the whole object fast enough, you get problems... as you're moving parts of atoms at a time, and atoms don't really like existing half here and half there, and will tend to break up and shoot off in all directions.
Secondly, you can't read data smaller than the reader... should a particle be undergoing a quantum event (eg, quantum leap while changing frequencies), you'll lose that data.
Quantum entanglement is really not all that strange... it's just particles that exist in different locations in space at the same time, as opposed to most of what we interact with, which are particles that exist in one location in space, but many locations in time. What I'm keen to see is if anyone can create a particle in more than 2 spaces... that opens the window to transmitions being monitored... and if "teleportation" is ever sorted out... would mean duplication of complex atomic structures...
...food for thought
However you do run into problems... firstly, if you don't reacreate the whole object fast enough, you get problems... as you're moving parts of atoms at a time, and atoms don't really like existing half here and half there, and will tend to break up and shoot off in all directions.
Secondly, you can't read data smaller than the reader... should a particle be undergoing a quantum event (eg, quantum leap while changing frequencies), you'll lose that data.
Quantum entanglement is really not all that strange... it's just particles that exist in different locations in space at the same time, as opposed to most of what we interact with, which are particles that exist in one location in space, but many locations in time. What I'm keen to see is if anyone can create a particle in more than 2 spaces... that opens the window to transmitions being monitored... and if "teleportation" is ever sorted out... would mean duplication of complex atomic structures...
...food for thought
