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This subject has always caused me a great deal of headaches while trying to wrap my mind around it. If I understand you correctly then, the term 'teleportation
by exch 14y ago
This subject has always caused me a great deal of headaches while trying to wrap my mind around it.
If I understand you correctly then, the term 'teleportation' is entirely misleading in this context.
I am also wondering about another issue: Heisenberg's uncertainty principle.
How can you accurately gauge the state of a particle, in order to 'transport' it elsewhere, when Heisenberg seems to be convinced this is impossible to do?
Thirdly: 'teleportation' as you explained it, seems to me to be more of a game of "Let's see what's over there, then observe this spot here and wait until some particle randomly displays characteristics similar enough to consider it equal. We can then pretend we did it with science!". Is this the case, or do they actually 'do' something on the other end to create a new particle with a specific state?
Disclaimer: I am very much an arm-chair physicist with as much understanding of this subject matter as the average doormat.
- galadriel 14y agoHeisenberg tells you that you cannot measure locations and speed, but Physicist have just accepted it and moved on. What you can measure, and what quantifies a state, are probabilities of things happening. That is all the information that nature gives you, and if you can recreate a set of probabilities from point A at point B, you have teleported the object. The laws of nature ensure that object at point A is destroyed, so you cannot clone states. The way how you interpret is now philosophy. As far as nature goes, there is no way to distinguish one electron from other, or to differentiate a 'teleported' object from its 'original' object.