Specifically, scientists have worked out how to teleport information almost instantly and over any distance – without needing any future technology
Either this is a world changing discovery that breaks everything that I’m hearing about only in… checks… the BBC Science Magazine
Or… it’s complete wank clickbait nonsense
OH WHICH IS IT GOING TO BE?!
The second one, of course:
the new research proposes that the breakthrough could make these communications super secure and nearly instantaneous – limited only by the speed of light.
(enphasis mine)
So, yeah, we didn’t break any laws of physics.
Oh so this is teleportation?
It’s not teleportation, it’s clickbait nonsense
But it says it’s teleportation. Are you calling them a liar?
Well… I think the idea is once you can reliably send a photon, you can start sending entangled photos. Then you can use those to build networking hardware that transmits bits instantly.
I’m pretty sure it’s impossible to transmit bits “instantly” i.e. faster than light under the current quantum theory or relativity theory, you can’t transmit information faster than the speed of light. If somebody found a way to do that, we’d be rewriting the laws of physics, and that would be a big deal for sure.
TLDR: They sent information through a fiber-optic cable using fewer photons per bit than before.
They only transmitted information, not any non-photon particles. They didn’t exceed the speed of light, or exceed the speed of light through fiber-optic cable.
“Almost instantly.”
Nobody thought it was possible, says man who led project because he thought he could make it possible.
Also, this looks like quantum entanglement which is a thing that’s hardly a new concept and/or considered impossible, so uh, dude needs to get out of clickbait mode and ship a working example instead.
Is this what I think it is?
click, control-f, entanglement
Yep. The core discovery is not exactly news if you’ve been following this stuff, but still very cool.
