{"id":104340,"date":"2020-03-27T09:06:07","date_gmt":"2020-03-27T16:06:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2020\/03\/teleportation-is-here-but-its-not-what-we-expected"},"modified":"2020-03-27T09:06:07","modified_gmt":"2020-03-27T16:06:07","slug":"teleportation-is-here-but-its-not-what-we-expected","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2020\/03\/teleportation-is-here-but-its-not-what-we-expected","title":{"rendered":"Teleportation is Here, But It\u2019s Not What We Expected"},"content":{"rendered":"

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In 2005, the obituary of physicist Asher Peres in the magazine Physics Today<\/em><\/a> told us that when a journalist asked him if quantum teleportation could transport a person\u2019s soul as well as their body, the scientist replied: \u201cNo, not the body, just the soul.\u201d More than just a simple joke, Peres\u2019 response offers a perfect explanation, encoded in a metaphor, of the reality of a process that we have seen countless times in science fiction. In fact, teleportation does exist, although in the real world it is quite different from the famous \u201cBeam me up, Scotty!\u201d associated with the Star Trek<\/em> series.<\/p>\n

Teleportation in real science began to take shape in 1993 thanks to a theoretical study published by Peres and five other researchers in Physical Review Letters<\/em>, which laid the foundation for quantum teleportation<\/a>. Apparently, it was co-author Charles Bennett\u2019s idea to associate the proposed phenomenon with the popular idea of teleportation, but there is an essential difference between fiction and reality: in the latter it\u2019s not matter that travels, but rather information<\/strong>, which transfers properties from the original matter to that of the destination matter.<\/p>\n

Quantum teleportation is based on a hypothesis described in 1935 by physicist Albert Einstein and his colleagues Boris Podolsky and Nathan Rosen, known as the EPR paradox. As a consequence of the laws of quantum physics, it was possible to obtain two particles and separate them in space so that they would continue to share their properties, as two halves of a whole. Thus, an action on one of them (on A, or Alice, according to the nomenclature used) would instantaneously have an effect on the other (on B, or Bob). This \u201cspooky action at a distance\u201d, in Einstein\u2019s words, would seem capable of violating the limit of the speed of light.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

In 2005, the obituary of physicist Asher Peres in the magazine Physics Today told us that when a journalist asked him if quantum teleportation could transport a person\u2019s soul as well as their body, the scientist replied: \u201cNo, not the body, just the soul.\u201d More than just a simple joke, Peres\u2019 response offers a perfect [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":513,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[23,48,1617,1514],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-104340","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-humor","category-particle-physics","category-quantum-physics","category-space-travel"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/104340","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/513"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=104340"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/104340\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=104340"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=104340"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=104340"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}