Scientists Just Teleported an Object into Space for the First Time
time.com
time.com
> Teleportation is the theoretical transfer of matter or energy from one point to another without traversing the physical space between them. ... [1]
if they teleported anything, it was information, not matter or energy.
Aren't matter and energy just a manifestation of information though?
“A team of researchers in China sent a photon from the ground to an orbiting satellite more than 300 miles above through a process known as quantum entanglement”
links from the article:
- https://www.technologyreview.com/s/608252/first-object-telep...
- https://arxiv.org/abs/1707.00934
imo, it’s far-fetched to call a photon an “object”.
> A team of researchers in China sent a photon from the ground to an orbiting satellite more than 300 miles above through a process known as quantum entanglement, according to MIT Technology Review. It’s the farthest distance tested so far in teleportation experiments, the researchers said. Their work was published online on the open access site arXiv.
> For about a month, the scientists beamed up millions of photons from their ground station in Tibet to the low-orbiting satellite. They were successful in more than 900 cases.