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First Object Teleported from Earth to Orbit
- dTal 9y agoLast I checked photons are not "objects". They don't even have mass. An "object" being teleported even 1mm would be much bigger news than this.
- dkonofalski 9y agoAnother sensationalized article. They "teleported" a photon which is 1) not an object and 2) not really teleported the way most people think of it. It's basically taking a quantum link and mirroring the properties of one photon to another. It's definitely cool and definitely useful, but it's not like we're taking some small object and sending it to space. It's more like taking a particle and changing the angle of that particle (even though that's not really an accurate description) and observing that the other particle has also changed to the same angle so, for most intents and purposes, it is the same particle (only it's not, it's a photon). TL;DR - Star Trek is still a long ways off.