Chinese Physicists Smash Distance Record For Teleportation

Re:Chinese Physicists Smash Distance Record For Teleportation by bcl on Friday May 11, 2012 @12:14PM (#3959934)

This isn't teleporting as far as I can tell. They're still using a transmission medium (fiber, laser). There is no instant appearance of the information at the target, photons are still constrained by the speed of light.

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Re:Chinese Physicists Smash Distance Record For Teleportation by unreal37 on Friday May 11, 2012 @01:05PM (#3960179)

The information isn't being transmitted. Only the "public key" to read the information is transmitted from A to B. The information magically appears at B because of quantum entanglement. It's brilliant!

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Re:Chinese Physicists Smash Distance Record For Teleportation by evincarofautumn on Friday May 11, 2012 @12:44PM (#3960079)

Somehow I wouldn’t expect teleportation to be faster than light, even if the information doesn’t actually travel through the intervening space.

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Re:Chinese Physicists Smash Distance Record For Teleportation by RuggeroAltair on Friday May 11, 2012 @06:28PM (#3961774)

The information does not travel faster than light.

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Re:Chinese Physicists Smash Distance Record For Teleportation by norswap on Friday May 11, 2012 @12:56PM (#3960142)

Agreed, also the phrase "Teleportation turns out to be extremely useful. Because teleported information does not travel through the intervening space, it cannot be secretly accessed by an eavesdropper. " confused the heck out of me.

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