Video of the Week: How to Teleport Schrödinger's Cat (by minutephysics)

For anyone looking for their weekly or daily dose of quantum mechanics on a subatomic level along with quantum superposition then look no further than minutephysics. With being fairly early in the morning at the time of writing this, I did have to watch this video twice before fully understanding all that he was talking about, but once I grasped the concept of teleportation, it did allow me to see that the maths is there. By using that maths, scientists have successfully teleported particles from one place to another, and the maths doesn’t necessarily change if they want to involve something bigger than a single particle, say a person who is made up of billions of particles all at once. The act of taking a single person, breaking them down to individual atoms, sending them across a vast distance to then be reassembled exactly the same as they were at the other end is mind-blowing the more I think about it.

With the right powerful technology, the right maths, and everything else falling into place, I guess it is quite easy to teleport a single particle. Obviously it does take up an incredible amount of time, resources, and money to pull such an achievement off, so they can do it every day. But with all that they have to do just to teleport one particle, it does beg the question: How much work, time, resources, and maths need to be put into making sure two particles teleport successfully, or three, or four, or five, and so on until it’s time for us to step into the machine and go to the other side of the world? Although, I can imagine going on holiday via teleportation is going to be comparably more expensive than booking the next flight out.

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Antony Hudson

(TonyHadNouns)