Monday, Jun 4, 2007, 5:25 PM

A really bad optimization

I always knew that the scientists would optimize away sending the matter when all they need is to send the state:

"A team of physicists has teleported data over a distance of 89 miles from the Canary Island of La Palma to the neighbouring island of Tenerife, which is 10 times further than the previous attempt at teleportation through free space. The scientists did it by exploiting the "spooky" and virtually unfathomable field of quantum entanglement - when the state of matter rather than matter itself is sent from one place to another." [ed: emphasis mine]

Sure. And what do they do with the matter at the original end? Do they leave it alive work another job, but only pay one set of taxes? I don't think so...

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Pablo:

See "The Prestige"

Sunday, Jun 10, 2007, 11:01 PM

Joe:

The really cool thing about entaglement teleportation is that it is a way to send data without latency. This would be particularly useful for interplanetary communication, but might be too expensive for terrestrial applications, although you could imagine how much cheaper it would be to put the world's data centers in Antarctica.

Tuesday, Jun 12, 2007, 12:45 PM


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A really bad optimization

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