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Re:Complex quantum teleportation achieved for the first time by BoiledCabbage on Friday August 23, 2019 @08:55PM (#20784385)
> actually somehow instantaneously moving a thing from point A to B, rather than transferring its state.

Is it ever explicitly called out that teleportation instantaneously moves matter?

I'm not a huge fan, but from what I've seen there is a max range they can teleport. Even taking them orbiting a planet, it usually take about 2-3 seconds or so for the teleportation to go through. Transferring state via EM waves at the speed of light (300km/s) that still gets you between half a million and a million kilometers distance in 2-3 seconds. Seems like plenty range to not need anything instantaneous.

Re:Complex quantum teleportation achieved for the first time by krapp on Saturday August 24, 2019 @10:26AM (#20787302)
>Is it ever explicitly called out that teleportation instantaneously moves matter?

No. Maybe "relatively instantaneously" would be more accurate. Although if we're considering the concept of teleportation as a science fictional plot device in general, it depends, and even within Star Trek, the transporters worked however the plot required.

Trek style transporters did still "move" some kind of matter stream, though. In one episode, the stream bounced off some clouds when an away team was beaming off of a planet and accidentally created a duplicate of Riker.

> Transferring state via EM waves at the speed of light (300km/s) that still gets you between half a million and a million kilometers distance in 2-3 seconds. Seems like plenty range to not need anything instantaneous.

Notwithstanding the other problems involved[0], sending only state still requires that state to be transferred into some existing matter at the other end.

[0]https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20782106