Will we ever be able to teleport? - Sajan Saini
View full lesson: https://ed.ted.com/lessons/will-we-ever-be-able-to-teleport-sajan-saini Is teleportation possible? Could a baseball transform into something like a radio wave, travel through...
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Is teleportation possible? Could a baseball transform into something like a radio wave, travel through buildings, bounce around corners, and change back into a baseball? Oddly enough, thanks to quantum mechanics, the answer might actually be yes. Sort of. Here's the trick. The baseball itself couldn't be sent by radio, but all the information about it could. In quantum physics, atoms and electrons are interpreted as a collection of distinct properties, for example, position, momentum, and intrinsic spin. The values of these properties configure the particle, giving it a quantum state identity. If two electrons have the same quantum state, they're identical. In a literal sense, our baseball is defined by a collective quantum state ...
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Is teleportation possible? Could a baseball transform into something like a radio wave, travel through buildings, bounce around corners, and change back into a baseball? Oddly enough, thanks to quantum mechanics, the answer might actually be yes. Sort of. Here's the trick. The baseball itself couldn't be sent by radio, but all the information about it could. In quantum physics, atoms and electrons are interpreted as a collection of distinct properties, for example, position, momentum, and intrinsic spin. The values of these properties configure the particle, giving it a quantum state identity. If two electrons have the same quantum state, they're identical. In a literal sense, our baseball is defined by a collective quantum state ...
