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[–]Zapped[S] 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

So if this leads to teleportation of objects like that seen on Star Trek, does it create a Ship of Theseus paradox? What happens to the original object?

[–][deleted] 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (5 children)

The real teleportation?

Or another case of "hey, these similar particles stay similar when we move them, so we must be teleporting something" teleportation?

With "quantum" things, one can never know.

[–]Zapped[S] 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (4 children)

Right? It seems like this is more like copy/paste.

[–][deleted] 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (3 children)

  1. Make 2 copies.
  2. Move 1 copy.
  3. Look at these copies. Do they have the same value?
  4. Proclaim yourself a wizard scientist.

Sometimes I feel like they all are working with some new technology and just feed this madness to public to reduce competition. What am I missing?

[–]Zapped[S] 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (2 children)

I understand that the copying is done at long distances using some poorly understood connection between the "paired" particles. Think of the Cheech & Chong movie "The Corsican Brothers".

[–][deleted] 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (1 child)

You version would be reasonable. But whenever I look at the details of these experiments, they are just moving similar particles.

To observe something, you see, we have to steal some of its energy. And feed this energy to our eyes. And the fact that we can know the value of one particle by measuring another particle, means that they are a part of one system. And since we are measuring it, we must be stealing its energy. And since we are stealing the energy of something from the distance, this energy must be teleporting.

It feels like nonsense. But if it's nonsense, why do so many institutions work with it? Argh.

[–]Zapped[S] 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

Wow. What a great way of looking at it.