Quantum teleportation of macroscopic objects

[BruceW]

Its sometimes good to speculate a little bit.
For example in this case, we speculate "what if the results are true, then that would mean all kinds of crazy things for physics" So by speculating this, we think "maybe the results were wrong for some reason", so then we get others to check our results to see if they were right or not.

 

[ZapperZ]

Please confine the discussion to the topic based on current accepted evidence. Do not invoke the OPERA result in here. All discussion involving that experiment must be confined only to the single thread on that topic.

Zz.

 

[MarcoD]

As far as I know, quantum 'teleportation' is just terminology. There is nothing being teleported in the sense a layman would understand it. It's just a term which is used to spice up an otherwise 'boring' experiment.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quantum_teleportation"

 

[BruceW]

Well, the entire state of the thing being teleported is transferred from one place to another by using the principle of entanglement. So there really is true teleportation as a layman would understand.

 

[MarcoD]

Well, the entire state of the thing being teleported is transferred from one place to another by using the principle of entanglement. So there really is true teleportation as a layman would understand.

Well. From my very limited understanding of the explanation on the Wikipedia page, I would just call it transportation.

 

[hammertime]

Can we expect the discovery of the Higgs boson to bring us any closer to teleportation?

 

[Drakkith]

Can we expect the discovery of the Higgs boson to bring us any closer to teleportation?

I don't believe so.

 

[hammertime]

The challenge that there is no known mechanism by which this is possible. You might as well ask "what barriers exist to magic?" If you convert a human body to energy (and how you would achieve total mass-to-energy is a big question) you now just have a huge explosion to deal with. Put it this way, if I explode a nuclear bomb in one direction towards you, how exactly are you going to absorb the explosion and turn it back into a nuclear bomb?

It also violates some fairy fundamental physics, namely the fictional technology somehow maps (perfectly and without interfering) the properties of every particle of the object being transported. This obviously violates the HUP.

I thought QT let's us work around the HUP.

By the way, Ryan_m_b, do you have any formal training in physics, quantum mechanics, or quantum computation? For the record, I don't.

I'm not trying to be rude or offensive. It's just that I noticed that, in your profile, it says that your interests are in nanotechnology and regenerative medicine, yet you're providing feedback on subject that has nothing to do with either of those topics.

 

[Ryan_m_b]

I thought QT let's us work around the HUP.

No, the uncertainty principle is a fundamental principle of quantum physics.

By the way, Ryan_m_b, do you have any formal training in physics, quantum mechanics, or quantum computation? For the record, I don't.

I'm not trying to be rude or offensive. It's just that I noticed that, in your profile, it says that your interests are in nanotechnology and regenerative medicine, yet you're providing feedback on subject that has nothing to do with either of those topics.

I have a BSc in biology and an MSc in nanotechnology and regenerative medicine. Any feedback I give outside of those areas is a consequence of self directed learning, that's a common thing on this forum.