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Re:Quantum teleportation over 143 kilometres using active fe... by javert on Sunday September 09, 2012 @04:16PM (#4496844)
Teleportation is teleportation of matter. So AFAIK you can't call it quantum teleportation, for the same reason you can't call travelling along the road "road flying," i.e., flying is travelling above the ground, not on it.
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Re:Quantum teleportation over 143 kilometres using active fe... by smosher on Sunday September 09, 2012 @10:35PM (#4498009)
The human ability to generalize concepts is amazing, watch—I'll swap out your of matter for of quantum information and suddenly you're up to speed on subject of discourse: "The teleportation of quantum information." Magic!

Your language gives you away, you've already done this process in reverse to make your case, so I know you have the power to understand this concept.

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Re:Quantum teleportation over 143 kilometres using active fe... by javert on Monday September 10, 2012 @06:20PM (#4502615)
So we can use any word to mean anything?

This kind of abuse of language has serious consequences in the long run. The language of modern physics is already way too muddled.

I don't understand what you're trying to say in the last sentence. But it seems like you're being derisive, which is utterly inappropriate.

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