Quantum teleportation over 143 kilometres using active feed-forward

Re:Quantum teleportation over 143 kilometres using active fe... by Cushman on Saturday September 08, 2012 @10:38PM (#4494722)

Uh huh.

  Scientist: "As you can see here, we've demonstrated quantum teleportation across an unprecedented--"
  Journalist: "Teleportation?! Like in Star Trek?"
  Scientist: "Uh, no. *Quantum* teleportation is a different--"
  Journalist: "So you didn't send anybody through a wormhole or anything?"
  Scientist: "No. What we've demonstrated is the ability to--"
  Journalist: "It just seems like a bit of a mistake to call it 'teleportation'."
  Scientist: "Yes, I can see that now."

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Re:Quantum teleportation over 143 kilometres using active fe... by zxtang on Saturday September 08, 2012 @11:18PM (#4494791)

As always, there's an xkcd for that: http://xkcd.com/465/

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Re:Quantum teleportation over 143 kilometres using active fe... by waterlesscloud on Saturday September 08, 2012 @11:23PM (#4494799)

What do you imagine they thought teleportation meant when they appropriated it?

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