Jordi, Boost the Angular Confinement Beam!

Those whacky Austrians. Chocolate, Body Builders, Teleporting Photons:

"We were able to perform a quantum teleportation experiment for the first time ever outside a university laboratory," said Rupert Ursin, a researcher at the Institute for Experimental Physics at the University of Vienna in Austria.

The researchers read the "blueprints" of the photons they wanted to teleport. They then broke up the photons into smaller particles called quantum bits and sent these bits, along with the blueprints, through a fiber-optic cable in a sewage pipe under the river.

At the other end, replicas of the original photons were created. The original photons ceased to exist once the replicas were created.

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RE: Jordi, Boost the Angular Confinement Beam!

whoooa! you mean now we can shine flashlights under sewer pipes and get NEW photons!!!

seriously, this is pretty damn amazing.

RE: Jordi, Boost the Angular Confinement Beam!

While the article proably doesn't do justice to the science involved, unless the First Law of Thermodynamics has been broken, this seems not much more than a videocamera/television set up.

RE: Jordi, Boost the Angular Confinement Beam!

As I understand it, its not a violation of the first law. Really what you are doing, however, is moving the quantum signature elements of the photons "instantly", meaning though one of those crazy quantum jump scenarios to somewhere else and "reassembling" them. The jist of it is, you sidestep the Heisenberg problem by "transiting" the discrete state information across a probability "gap".

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