From: Daniel Boyd Fox (foxd_at_indiana.edu)
Date: Sun Aug 22 2004 - 08:56:14 PDT
It's the quantum state of the particle that is being teleported.
Daniel Fox
On Sat, 21 Aug 2004, David Ocame wrote:
> After reading the article I noted that they connected 2 labs with a fiber (optic?) cable. (they ran it through a sewer pipe under a river). Ok, but haven't we been doing that for years? So, they caused light "particles" on one side of the cable to take on the same polarization as the "particles" originating on the other side.
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> I'm not sure this qualifies as teleportation (maybe we need a good working definition). I think Paul is right. Sounds more like propagation.
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> Dave Ocame
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> "Dr. H. Paul Shuch" <n6tx_at_setileague.org> wrote:
> LARRY KLAES wrote:
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> > ** Teleportation goes long distance **
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> > Physicists have successfully teleported particles of light over a distance of 600m across the River Danube in Austria, the journal Nature reports.
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> Wait a minute -- particles of light? As in photons? Last time I
> checked, that was called propagation, not teleportation!
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