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> Teleportation is not possible. Quantum teleportation is the transmission of the exact state of a photon from one place to another. Still, even this happens at
by ctrl-j 10y ago
> Teleportation is not possible. Quantum teleportation is the transmission of the exact state of a photon from one place to another. Still, even this happens at less than the speed of light. Otherwise it would violate causality.
Maybe I'm remembering my QED special topics class incorrectly, but I thought the state teleportation is believed to be instant. The problem is to extract the state information, the transformation operators still need to be communicated. So you still have to get on the phone to tell your colleague across the planet what to do to see the entangled result. It's been years, so maybe I'm a little off on that?
Causality also isn't a hard-and-fast law. We've just never seen it violated before. It's one of those physics problems that is really hard to find evidence to support or discredit it.
- Skunkleton 10y agoSo many advancements in physics have been the result of a smart person abandoning some "law".
- jerf 10y agoUsually, in the process, discovering a deeper and stronger law. I understand the temptation to think that every "law" is just waiting to be broken, but I can easily read the same data and come to the opposite conclusion about the strength of our current "laws".