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Chaboo_Cleric
09-22-2016, 10:11 PM
https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2016/09/160921082605.htm


Can you say dope as fuck


A group of physicists led by Wolfgang Tittel have successfully demonstrated teleportation of a photon, an elementary particle of light, over a straight-line distance of six kilometres.
Credit: Riley Brandt, University of Calgary
What if you could behave like the crew on the Starship Enterprise and teleport yourself home or anywhere else in the world? As a human, you're probably not going to realize this any time soon; if you're a photon, you might want to keep reading.

Through a collaboration between the University of Calgary, The City of Calgary and researchers in the United States, a group of physicists led by Wolfgang Tittel, professor in the Department of Physics and Astronomy at the University of Calgary have successfully demonstrated teleportation of a photon (an elementary particle of light) over a straight-line distance of six kilometres using The City of Calgary's fibre optic cable infrastructure. The project began with an Urban Alliance seed grant in 2014.

This accomplishment, which set a new record for distance of transferring a quantum state by teleportation, has landed the researchers a spot in the journal Nature Photonics. The finding was published back-to-back with a similar demonstration by a group of Chinese researchers.

"Such a network will enable secure communication without having to worry about eavesdropping, and allow distant quantum computers to connect," says Tittel.

Experiment draws on 'spooky action at a distance'

The experiment is based on the entanglement property of quantum mechanics, also known as "spooky action at a distance" -- a property so mysterious that not even Einstein could come to terms with it.

"Being entangled means that the two photons that form an entangled pair have properties that are linked regardless of how far the two are separated," explains Tittel. "When one of the photons was sent over to City Hall, it remained entangled with the photon that stayed at the University of Calgary."

Next, the photon whose state was teleported to the university was generated in a third location in Calgary and then also travelled to City Hall where it met the photon that was part of the entangled pair.

"What happened is the instantaneous and disembodied transfer of the photon's quantum state onto the remaining photon of the entangled pair, which is the one that remained six kilometres away at the university," says Tittel.

City's accessible dark fibre makes research possible

The research could not be possible without access to the proper technology. One of the critical pieces of infrastructure that support quantum networking is accessible dark fibre. Dark fibre, so named because of its composition -- a single optical cable with no electronics or network equipment on the alignment -- doesn't interfere with quantum technology.

The City of Calgary is building and provisioning dark fibre to enable next-generation municipal services today and for the future.

"By opening The City's dark fibre infrastructure to the private and public sector, non-profit companies, and academia, we help enable the development of projects like quantum encryption and create opportunities for further research, innovation and economic growth in Calgary," said Tyler Andruschak, project manager with Innovation and Collaboration at The City of Calgary.

"The university receives secure access to a small portion of our fibre optic infrastructure and The City may benefit in the future by leveraging the secure encryption keys generated out of the lab's research to protect our critical infrastructure," said Andruschak. In order to deliver next-generation services to Calgarians, The City has been increasing its fibre optic footprint, connecting all City buildings, facilities and assets.

Timed to within one millionth of one millionth of a second

As if teleporting a photon wasn't challenging enough, Tittel and his team encountered a number of other roadblocks along the way.

Due to changes in the outdoor temperature, the transmission time of photons from their creation point to City Hall varied over the course of a day -- the time it took the researchers to gather sufficient data to support their claim. This change meant that the two photons would not meet at City Hall.

"The challenge was to keep the photons' arrival time synchronized to within 10 pico-seconds," says Tittel. "That is one trillionth, or one millionth of one millionth of a second."

Secondly, parts of their lab had to be moved to two locations in the city, which as Tittel explains was particularly tricky for the measurement station at City Hall which included state-of-the-art superconducting single-photon detectors developed by the National Institute for Standards and Technology, and NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory.

"Since these detectors only work at temperatures less than one degree above absolute zero the equipment also included a compact cryostat," said Tittel.

Milestone towards a global quantum Internet

This demonstration is arguably one of the most striking manifestations of a puzzling prediction of quantum mechanics, but it also opens the path to building a future quantum internet, the long-term goal of the Tittel group.

maskedmelon
09-22-2016, 10:19 PM
Dope ass fuck. I would not teleport, because I am not convinced that the reassembled me would actually be me. You know? I mean, I indeesand that the information is supposed to be retained in addition to the matter, I am just not sure how I feel about passing from existence. Would the new me be me, or just an identical copy? Is an identical copy me? I guess it is kinda like future me. Since we only ever experience the present, we can't be sure that we will ensure I the future right? I mean, our memories could just be from former copies of us, which are passed on to future copies once our moment passes. Ya feel?

entruil
09-22-2016, 10:29 PM
if man were meant to fly , they wouldn't have developed teleporters.

I remember reading about them trying to send special snowflake photon? through fiber optics to have 100% secure firewalls... and the molecule deconstructor/constructor thing that was portended to bring teleportation... is this the same?

i might even read the article but i'm afraid of what will happen if i actually engage my brain...

Dope ass fuck. I would not teleport, because I am not convinced that the reassembled me would actually be me. You know? I mean, I indeesand that the information is supposed to be retained in addition to the matter, I am just not sure how I feel about passing from existence. Would the new me be me, or just an identical copy? Is an identical copy me? I guess it is kinda like future me. Since we only ever experience the present, we can't be sure that we will ensure I the future right? I mean, our memories could just be from former copies of us, which are passed on to future copies once our moment passes. Ya feel?


pretty much exactly how i feel about it

R Flair
09-22-2016, 10:33 PM
How do they know it was the same photon?

Daywolf
09-22-2016, 10:36 PM
Didn't the Chinese already do this a couple years ago? And since then they put a quantum satellite into orbit.

maskedmelon
09-22-2016, 10:37 PM
They took a photo of it before sending it on its way...







^o^

maskedmelon
09-22-2016, 10:38 PM
Didn't the Chinese already do this a couple years ago? And since then they put a quantum satellite into orbit.

Dunno about Chinese, but i know there a lab off the coast of west Africa where they were doing something similar a few years ago.

Daywolf
09-22-2016, 10:43 PM
I'm not sure if it was a couple years ago or longer (I think 2yrs ago, I'd need to look when I get time), but I'm pretty sure it was the Chinese first to do the experiment based on quantum entanglement and transmitting a photon. Here is their satellite, launched it last month https://www.nasaspaceflight.com/2016/08/long-march-2d-quantum-communications-satellite/

R Flair
09-22-2016, 10:44 PM
Call me when they manage a proton.

skarlorn
09-22-2016, 10:49 PM
Call me when it the real biz

Kowalski
09-22-2016, 10:51 PM
Awesome

maskedmelon
09-22-2016, 10:51 PM
You know, I think the cooler application of this would be beaming thoughts into people's heads. Just come on overs here and sit on the telecast as all the information of man is beamed straight from the Internet into your brain ^^

Daywolf
09-22-2016, 10:51 PM
Call me when they manage a proton.
Or whatever they transmitted back then, I'm streaming Faux 10 on NC atm, maybe I'll dig it up later. I know I had the bookmark, but lost them when my computer died. Whatever the case, it's capable of a digital signal I would estimate, and certainly quite secure.

Nihilist_santa
09-23-2016, 08:42 AM
You know, I think the cooler application of this would be beaming thoughts into people's heads. Just come on overs here and sit on the telecast as all the information of man is beamed straight from the Internet into your brain ^^

Will have to wait for the Aryan golden age for that. As it stands now you would just get hit with (((advertisements))) .

http://i.imgur.com/rz59Eo6.gif

Spyder73
09-23-2016, 10:10 AM
The real question: Whats up with cloning? We were cloning goats and all kinds of sh!t in the 90s. I find it difficult to believe we have not dabbled in human cloning, yet I hear nothing.

Chaboo_Cleric
09-23-2016, 10:12 AM
You know, I think the cooler application of this would be beaming thoughts into people's heads. Just come on overs here and sit on the telecast as all the information of man is beamed straight from the Internet into your brain ^^

The thing is even with Quantum internet and warping in less than a pico second. It might. Be fast and we will be able to do everything ,but.... The Dmv will still take 20 fucking seconds.

surron
09-23-2016, 10:15 AM
Dope ass fuck. I would not teleport, because I am not convinced that the reassembled me would actually be me. You know? I mean, I indeesand that the information is supposed to be retained in addition to the matter, I am just not sure how I feel about passing from existence. Would the new me be me, or just an identical copy? Is an identical copy me? I guess it is kinda like future me. Since we only ever experience the present, we can't be sure that we will ensure I the future right? I mean, our memories could just be from former copies of us, which are passed on to future copies once our moment passes. Ya feel?

i would do some acid or mushrooms with you

entruil
09-23-2016, 11:07 AM
The Dmv will still take 20 fucking seconds.

lol.. ain't it the truth, ain't it the truth.

can this be applied to cloaking/camo devices as well?


realizing i still didnt read most of what you posted... ...

Angushjalmur
09-23-2016, 11:55 AM
Dope ass fuck. I would not teleport, because I am not convinced that the reassembled me would actually be me. You know? I mean, I indeesand that the information is supposed to be retained in addition to the matter, I am just not sure how I feel about passing from existence. Would the new me be me, or just an identical copy? Is an identical copy me? I guess it is kinda like future me. Since we only ever experience the present, we can't be sure that we will ensure I the future right? I mean, our memories could just be from former copies of us, which are passed on to future copies once our moment passes. Ya feel?

Yeah but what's consciousness really?

You might be totally different and be none the wiser

entruil
09-23-2016, 12:56 PM
Yeah but what's consciousness really?

the notion of one's self would be my guess... probably like...

http://i.imgur.com/QO12t0J.jpg

Laugher
09-23-2016, 01:35 PM
I feel like at this point in the convo Ghost in the Shell needs an honorable mention; if you could broadcast your thoughts everywhere digitally, why not gradually phase out the majority of your organic being to make it easier?

Daywolf
09-23-2016, 09:31 PM
So went back over some of this to find dates etc. only about an hour of searching so not very in depth in the time-line of various experiments (some of it behind pay walls). 4-5 years ago we were all experimenting with it, but just that the Chinese were leading the way in distance. But the original experiment seems to be a joint venture between the Universities of Chicago and Wisconsin in the US and University College London back in 2003. lank: http://physicsworld.com/cws/article/news/2003/sep/03/entanglement-goes-macroscopic

maskedmelon
09-23-2016, 10:17 PM
i would do some acid or mushrooms with you

lol, I actually thought about this recently. Was wondering where you find mushrooms and if the are illegal or not. I decided I would probably die though, so left it as a curiosity in my mind ^^

R Flair
09-23-2016, 10:53 PM
You find the mushrooms sprouting directly out of cow poo. The ones we ate as kids looked (and tasted) kind of like the ones you'd buy in the grocery store. They had a ring in the stem.

Probably shouldn't do it though, but as teenagers who often didn't have money for pot and designer drugs, they provided many a night of entertainment.

maskedmelon
09-23-2016, 10:56 PM
cow poo? hmmm, yeah, didn't think it was a good idea. lol

Do other mushrooms grow on cow poo too, or just those?

R Flair
09-23-2016, 10:58 PM
I'm not a mushroomologist but the ones coming directly out of the poo in the 2 different fields we frequented always looked the same. There would be others near the poo that looked similar but different but that which sprouted directly out (they grow REALLY fast after it rains) always looked the same.

Daywolf
09-23-2016, 11:19 PM
they provided many a night of entertainment.
meh, I didn't like them from my only attempt when I was 18. It was around Christmas, all the lights, all glowy with trails, was with five friends. Felt kinda sickly and paranoid coming off them, and effected short term memory. imo they don't hold a candle to a good beer.

Yup, illegal. But you gotta check possession laws in your state, it can vary. Small amount generally is a fine and maybe some community service. May also depend on your current rap sheet :D

maskedmelon
09-23-2016, 11:23 PM
I'm squeaky clean.

R Flair
09-24-2016, 01:33 AM
meh, I didn't like them from my only attempt when I was 18. It was around Christmas, all the lights, all glowy with trails, was with five friends. Felt kinda sickly and paranoid coming off them, and effected short term memory. imo they don't hold a candle to a good beer.

Yup, illegal. But you gotta check possession laws in your state, it can vary. Small amount generally is a fine and maybe some community service. May also depend on your current rap sheet :D

We didn't possess them, we just walked into the field when it rained and ate them. Was a seasonal thing, but on the coast of FL it basically rains every afternoon.

Pokesan
09-24-2016, 01:36 AM
We didn't possess them, we just walked into the field when it rained and ate them. Was a seasonal thing, but on the coast of FL it basically rains every afternoon.

who'd have guessed this poster was into cow jenkem?

me. i would have guessed. i am very smart.

Izmael
09-25-2016, 09:11 AM
Teleportation is all fun and games until someone gets telefragged.

Malk
09-25-2016, 09:56 AM
Dope ass fuck. I would not teleport, because I am not convinced that the reassembled me would actually be me. You know? I mean, I indeesand that the information is supposed to be retained in addition to the matter, I am just not sure how I feel about passing from existence. Would the new me be me, or just an identical copy? Is an identical copy me? I guess it is kinda like future me. Since we only ever experience the present, we can't be sure that we will ensure I the future right? I mean, our memories could just be from former copies of us, which are passed on to future copies once our moment passes. Ya feel?

No matter is transferred during quantum teleportation, only information.

And anyway, given the replacement rate of cells in an average human body, you are mostly different than you were a few years ago. Except for your central nervous system, your lenses, and your oocytes if you're a she.

R Flair
09-25-2016, 10:22 AM
who'd have guessed this poster was into cow jenkem?

me. i would have guessed. i am very smart.

If I was you I'd look for any excuse to dismiss me too.

Words really do hurt don't they.

myriverse
09-25-2016, 11:49 AM
Dope ass fuck. I would not teleport, because I am not convinced that the reassembled me would actually be me. You know? I mean, I indeesand that the information is supposed to be retained in addition to the matter, I am just not sure how I feel about passing from existence. Would the new me be me, or just an identical copy? Is an identical copy me? I guess it is kinda like future me. Since we only ever experience the present, we can't be sure that we will ensure I the future right? I mean, our memories could just be from former copies of us, which are passed on to future copies once our moment passes. Ya feel?
I guess after I see a few people I know do it I wouldn't worry, but I sure as fuck won't be the first one.

Pokesan
09-25-2016, 12:06 PM
If I was you I'd look for any excuse to dismiss me too.

Words really do hurt don't they.

i dont actually need an excuse to dismiss you or any internet bozo

my good chum

entruil
09-26-2016, 07:40 PM
group of physicists led by Wolfgang Tittel have successfully demonstrated teleportation of a photon, an elementary particle of light, over a straight-line distance of six kilometres.

Will you help me understand how this is different then https://techcrunch.com/2015/10/14/quantum-teleportation-beyond-the-starship-enterprise/
'Researchers at the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) have now managed a significant breakthrough by ‘teleporting,’ or transferring, quantum information from one photon to another over a distance of 63 miles of optical fiber. This is 4x farther than the previous record. The research is published in the journal Optic.'

the difference that i gather is your linked experiment actually put one of the quantum entangled photons 6km away,whereas, one i linked just copied the information to another particle 63m away?

I think I got confused where they talk about fibers they used...



*random bullshit,

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Superluminal_communication

http://physics.stackexchange.com/questions/255640/cant-quantum-teleportation-be-superluminal-some-percentage-of-times

maskedmelon
09-26-2016, 09:12 PM
who'd have guessed this poster was into cow jenkem?

me. i would have guessed. i am very smart.

Lol. I've read this post several times now and it makes me giggle each time. It shouldn't be this funny and I don't know why it is, but it is. ^^

maskedmelon
09-26-2016, 09:25 PM
No matter is transferred during quantum teleportation, only information.

Ohhhh, that is a good point. I feel a little dumb now... But, if only information is transferred, I might prefer that a way be devised of extracting that information without tearing me apart and the. Just create another me at the desired location. I wouldn't mind me copies. The world could benefit from more me.

And anyway, given the replacement rate of cells in an average human body, you are mostly different than you were a few years ago. Except for your central nervous system, your lenses, and your oocytes if you're a she.

yes, but that is gradual. I feel like New cells have an opportunity to become me. They're inside of me. They've an opportunity go through orientation and be integrated into greater melon society. I don't feel that ripping me apart, recording molecular information and applying it to other stuff is really analogous.

entruil
09-26-2016, 09:59 PM
Lol. I've read this post several times now and it makes me giggle each time. It shouldn't be this funny and I don't know why it is, but it is. ^^

don't ever. solid advice for the side thought.