From: YakWaxx@aol.com
Date: Wed Oct 08 1997 - 14:02:41 MDT
Eliezer S. Yudkowsky wrote:
> > I also read that IBM are using
> > teleportation as a means for faster than light communcation. The really
> > interesting thing is, this was all in a business computing magazine, so
all
> > this has now officially gone mainstream.
>
> NOT accurate. Some idiot at IBM started this rumor years ago with an ad
in
> Scientific American. I suppose that now that we know how to do
> sort-of-teleportation in the sense of transmitting all information about a
> particle without transmitting the particle itself - formerly thought to be
> impossible - the rumor has resurfaced. I am NOT aware of ANY reports that
> this effect operates instantaneously, although I suppose that's
theoretically
> possible (uses quantum-measurement stuff, and nobody knows when or how
fast
> that operates).
I thought as much. The article said they were using entangled particles,
which AFAIK would only transmit the information. However , I remember seeing
a report on a teleportation device IBM had created which had successfully
teleported a single photon (they used the entangled particles to find it's
location at one end, put a photon at the exact same location the other end
and then destroy the original photon.)
--Wax
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