Beam me up, Scotty It’s hardly Star Trek, but scientists have taken one small step toward the process of teleportation, says The New York Times. Utilizing the almost-magical properties of quantum physics, scientists at the Joint Quantum Institute in Maryland were able to transport information instantly across several feet of space, from one atom to another. With a microwave pulse, scientists “wrote” quantum information onto one atom. They induced both atoms to become “entangled.” Entanglement is a mind-boggling quantum phenomenon in which two bits of matter somehow instantly affect the other across space, as if they shared a single identity. After the entanglement, the second atom had the same information that was written on the first atom, even though no information had traveled between them. That’s a primitive form of teleportation. Beaming Captain Kirk down from the Starship Enterprise to a planet, says physicist Christopher Monroe, probably isn’t in the cards. “There’re way too many atoms,” he says.
Michio Kaku on Teleportation http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-FqLCLooayM
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Beam me up, Scotty
It’s hardly Star Trek, but scientists have taken one small step toward the process of teleportation, says The New York Times. Utilizing the almost-magical properties of quantum physics, scientists at the Joint Quantum Institute in Maryland were able to transport information instantly across several feet of space, from one atom to another. With a microwave pulse, scientists “wrote” quantum information onto one atom. They induced both atoms to become “entangled.” Entanglement is a mind-boggling quantum phenomenon in which two bits of matter somehow instantly affect the other across space, as if they shared a single identity. After the entanglement, the second atom had the same information that was written on the first atom, even though no information had traveled between them. That’s a primitive form of teleportation. Beaming Captain Kirk down from the Starship Enterprise to a planet, says physicist Christopher Monroe, probably isn’t in the cards. “There’re way too many atoms,” he says.
Michio Kaku on Teleportation
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-FqLCLooayM
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