teleportation

These Drums Beat in Perfect Synchrony Because They’re Quantumly Entangled

Physicists have built two tiny drums, each as large as a human hair is wide, and synchronized their vibrations exactly. They achieved this perfect unison of drums using a quantum mechanics phenomenon known as entanglement—and the drums could be useful for developing quantum computers. The two drums play together with a precision far beyond what…

Could Teleporting Ever Work?

Have the major airlines spent decades suppressing teleportation research? Have a number of renowned scientists in the field of teleportation studies disappeared under mysterious circumstances? Is there a cork board at the FBI linking Delta Airlines, shady foreign security firms, and dozens of murdered research professors? Is that investigation being suppressed internally by an agent…

Kids From 2009 Predict Jobs of the Future

Want to feel old? The year 2009 was 10 years ago. No, really. And if you want to feel really old, here’s a video where fourth-grade kids explain what jobs they think will exist in the future. What did these kids predict? We’ve pulled out some of the jobs below. Though, admittedly, we’re not sure…

There’s No Cloning in Quantum Mechanics, So the Star Trek Transporter Really Is a Suicide Box

Remember last week’s video about the trouble with Star Trek’s transporter (a.k.a. a “suicide box”) by CGP Grey, delving into whether the teleported version of yourself would really be, well, you? Henry Reich of Minute Physics has posted a video response with his own resolution to the logical paradox. You know what that means…. NERD…

The Problem With Teleportation

Teleportation is a safe, convenient mode of travel in the Star Trek universe. But what if the Star Trek transporter is essentially a “suicide box” instead? That’s the unnerving conclusion of a new animated video from CGP Grey about the trouble with transporters. Think about it. All your atoms are scanned and destroyed in the…

Here and There Is a Thrilling Quantum Mystery that the Reader Must Solve

It’s meant to be a simple demonstration. For years, quantum cryptographer Kerek Reidier has been developing teleportation technology in his top-secret, DARPA-funded lab, and he’s already performed dozens of successful trials. Some people see teleportation as the ultimate weapon; to others, it’s the gateway to immortality. But The Reidier Test changes everything. The last thing…

Physicists Smash Quantum Teleportation Record With 60-Mile Fiber Jump

A team of researchers from the National Institute of Standards and Technology has broken the distance record for quantum teleportation down optical fiber, showing they’re able to transfer quantum information over 60 miles. The researchers have shown that they can perform quantum communication, often performed in free space, over standard fiber-optic lines. It means they’ve…

What Would You Do If You Could Teleport?

Forget all the technical details of trying to actually teleport: the fun stuff is imagining what you could do with your new-found superpowers. YouTuber Tom Scott has examined some of the potential logistical difficulties and opportunities that would go along with teleportation. For example, the surface of the Earth is moving at different speeds in…

In This Future Dystopia, Clones Have Developed A Troubling Addiction

The teleporter is one of the classic technologies of science fiction stories and it usually is portrayed as a positive, a marker of just how far a society has advanced from our own. This story, however, spins it into something much darker. In response to this piece tracing where teleporters have appeared in science fiction…

Girl dancing with 30 hula hoops looks like she’s about to get teleported

Coral Jade is a street performer that’s pretty much mastered the art of hula hooping. She can twirl them on every part of her body, use them to create mind bending warps and dance with 30 to make it look like she’s being teleported in a JJ Abrams-era Star Trek Transporter. And hey, there’s even…

Scientists have teleported quantum information between two bits of diamond located 10 feet apart. It’s a prime example of “spooky action at a distance” — and an achievement that could lead to quantum networks exponentially more powerful and secure than today’s supercomputers. Image: Artistic impression of quantum teleportation of a spin state between two distant…

Watch People Get Pranked into Thinking Star Trek Teleportation Is Real

Teleportation is perhaps the dreamiest sci-fi invention ever imagined so it’s no surprise that when a Star Trek-style Transporter pops up in a middle of a mall and promises real life teleportation, a crowd forms to ooh and ahh and secretly hope that it’s real (no matter how unreal it is). Illusionist Scott Penrose created…

Teleportation just got easier – but not for you, unfortunately

Thanks to two studies published in Nature last Thursday, the chance of successful teleportation has considerably increased. Which is a good thing, right? Top image by Photon™ via flickr Whether or not you’ve ever been on a long-haul flight, you’ve probably fantasised about being able to magically disappear from one place and reappear in another.…

Scientists teleport information in an electronic circuit

We’re still a far way’s off from being able to beam people through space, but in a science first, physicists have successfully transported information across a solid state system similar to a computer chip. The breakthrough could lead to more powerful processors and highly sophisticated encryption schemes. https://gizmodo.com/human-teleportation-is-far-more-impractical-than-we-tho-988408753 Top image: An ant placed atop the…

Human teleportation is far more impractical than we thought

Physics students from the University of Leicester have calculated the time and energy required to beam a complete person from the Earth’s surface to a location in space. Their results were discouraging, to say the least. Teleportation, or beaming, has long been a staple of science fiction. As anyone who’s seen Star Trek or The…

Fan recreates the Star Trek teleport effect with Christmas lights

Who needs fancy special effects software and years of digital animation schooling when you can just wrap up objects in Christmas lights and spin them around real fast? As this video from Joey Shanks shows, sometimes it doesn’t take much to create some really cool visuals.

Watch Christmas Lights Recreate Star Trek’s Beam Me Up Scotty Effect

Even non-Star Trek fans have dreamed about teleporting away to space by just saying Beam Me Up, Scotty. And though it’s unlikely to ever happen in our lifetimes (prove me wrong smart people!), the special effects maestro Shanks FX has cooked up a slick way to recreate the Star Trek teleportation effect with Christmas lights.…

China is winning in the teleportation race

If the Space Race characterized the twentieth century, it’s possible the Teleportation Race may characterize the twenty-first. Scientists all over the world are trying to perfect teleportation techniques, for a wide variety of applications including communications technology. (Sorry, this isn’t the kind of teleportation that involves sending you through a wormhole to the other side…

What is the most scientifically plausible superpower?

We all know that superheroes like Superman or Thor are completely impossible. But just for the sake of argument, are there any superpowers that could actually exist in the real world? We assembled a panel of experts to find out. https://gizmodo.com/the-physics-of-superman-5810945 We asked experts in the field of superhero physics, all of whom have written…

Scientists Successfully Teleport Quantum Information

Researchers in Japan and Australia have managed to get teleportation right. We’re now that much closer to a future where quantum computers will be on your desktop, which is to say not very close at all but still. https://gizmodo.com/giz-explains-why-quantum-computing-is-the-future-but-5335901 What they’ve done is teleport a complex set of quantum information that existed in a state…