From: Damien Broderick (damien@ariel.ucs.unimelb.edu.au)
Date: Fri Oct 23 1998 - 06:32:52 MDT
>http://www.cnn.com/TECH/science/9810/22/science.teleport.reut/
> Quantum teleportation allows information to be
transmitted at the speed of light -- the fastest speed possible -- without
being slowed down by wires or cables.
I think the reporter is missing the real boat here - surely quantal
entanglement allows information to pass from one spacetime location to the
other *instantaneously*, faster than light. (Of course, you need to have
the prepared black box states already waiting, in advance, at either end,
so it won't get us to Alpha Centauri in less than 4.3 years - but it will
permit people at home to see the pictures in the very same instant the
explorers arrive [whatever *that* means, *pace* Einstein].)
Damien Broderick
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