We’re used to the ways technology has improved our lives. From the tap of a button you can watch a movie, call a cab or teleport a photon. Why not on-demand health care, too?
A photon isn't an object (being massless). What was 'teleported' was the information about the quantum state of the photons, which were then replicated in the satellite.
It's interesting stuff, but this isn't star trek teleportation at all.
It is hardly surprising that an anti-science activist does not seem to be able to understand a scientific experiment well enough to explain it accurately.
@4 aha, but as we learned in the infamous "Second Chances" episode, that *is* more or less how Star Trek teleportation works. You are converted into bits of data, that data is beamed, and then you are reconstructed somewhere else. It's the Ship of Theseus paradox.
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A photon isn't an object (being massless). What was 'teleported' was the information about the quantum state of the photons, which were then replicated in the satellite.
It's interesting stuff, but this isn't star trek teleportation at all.
Just like Charles' headline
Don't ask me to explain how, or how this ties to that -- I was a lit major.
But I'd love further explanation from anyone more schooled than this scientific illiterate.
Thanks.