🃏Joker@sh.itjust.works to Technology@lemmy.worldEnglish · 1 day agoFirst demonstration of quantum teleportation over busy Internet cablesnews.northwestern.eduexternal-linkmessage-square31fedilinkarrow-up1167arrow-down115file-text
arrow-up1152arrow-down1external-linkFirst demonstration of quantum teleportation over busy Internet cablesnews.northwestern.edu🃏Joker@sh.itjust.works to Technology@lemmy.worldEnglish · 1 day agomessage-square31fedilinkfile-text
minus-squareDem Bosain@midwest.sociallinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up16·22 hours ago“Only limited by the speed of light…”
minus-square4am@lemm.eelinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up14arrow-down5·20 hours agoThey then go on to describe what sounds like transmitting a single specific photon through ‘the internet’, implying start-to-finish with routing (not possible without special infrastructure) Use that photon to then send information instantly by manipulating its entangled sibling (also not possible) So yeah this article is a crock of shit.
minus-squareslackassassin@sh.itjust.workslinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up5·edit-219 hours agoThe article did not describe either of those things that way. Cynicism is overriding reading comprehension.
“Only limited by the speed of light…”
They then go on to describe what sounds like
transmitting a single specific photon through ‘the internet’, implying start-to-finish with routing (not possible without special infrastructure)
Use that photon to then send information instantly by manipulating its entangled sibling (also not possible)
So yeah this article is a crock of shit.
The article did not describe either of those things that way. Cynicism is overriding reading comprehension.