{"id":108894,"date":"2020-06-19T13:43:03","date_gmt":"2020-06-19T20:43:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2020\/06\/is-teleportation-possible-yes-in-the-quantum-world"},"modified":"2020-06-19T13:43:03","modified_gmt":"2020-06-19T20:43:03","slug":"is-teleportation-possible-yes-in-the-quantum-world","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2020\/06\/is-teleportation-possible-yes-in-the-quantum-world","title":{"rendered":"Is teleportation possible? Yes, in the quantum world"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/is-teleportation-possible-yes-in-the-quantum-world2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u201cBeam me up\u201d is one of the most famous catchphrases from the Star Trek series. It is the command issued when a character wishes to teleport from a remote location back to the Starship Enterprise.<\/p>\n<p>While human teleportation exists only in <a href=\"https:\/\/phys.org\/tags\/science+fiction\/\" rel=\"tag\" class=\"\">science fiction<\/a>, teleportation is possible in the subatomic world of quantum mechanics\u2014albeit not in the way typically depicted on TV. In the <a href=\"https:\/\/phys.org\/tags\/quantum+world\/\" rel=\"tag\" class=\"\">quantum world<\/a>, teleportation involves the transportation of information, rather than the transportation of matter.<\/p>\n<p>Last year scientists confirmed that information could be passed between photons on <a href=\"https:\/\/phys.org\/tags\/computer+chips\/\" rel=\"tag\" class=\"\">computer chips<\/a> even when the photons were not physically linked.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u201cBeam me up\u201d is one of the most famous catchphrases from the Star Trek series. It is the command issued when a character wishes to teleport from a remote location back to the Starship Enterprise. While human teleportation exists only in science fiction, teleportation is possible in the subatomic world of quantum mechanics\u2014albeit not in [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":413,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1523,1617,1491],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-108894","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-computing","category-quantum-physics","category-transportation"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/108894","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\/413"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=108894"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/108894\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=108894"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=108894"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=108894"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}