Imagine being able to teleport to any place on Earth in an instant
what could you accomplish by cutting your travel time to zero
this may still be quite a way off in the future but scientists have achieved
significant forward momentum in the process in quantum mechanics known as quantum teleportation
We have all dreamed about living in a star trek-like future where teleporters have the
ability to transport people across vast distances in the blink of an eye while this is still in
the realm of Science Fiction scientists have been working on exploring the Strange World of quantum
teleportation this feature of quantum mechanics has allowed researchers to instantaneously send
information between two points that don't share any physical connection one lead scientist working
on this explained that the key feature of quantum teleportation is that the quantum
information itself is actually teleported it does not travel instead quantum teleportation
relies on using two entangled points that can be viewed as one Quantum system by using
entangled qubits scientists today have been able to find a practical use for the quantum
feature of quantum entanglement that Einstein famously called spooky action at a distance an
entangled state is a situation where you can know everything that can be known about the composite
system and know nothing at all about either of its parts what could researchers accomplish
once they unravel all the mysteries of quantum teleportation and understand its processes foreign
teleportation has been limited to the quantum information being sent between two established
and entangled qubits but that doesn't mean that this is the absolute limit of this wondrous
feature of quantum mechanics in fact just five years ago Jane wipan was working in China when
his team was able to teleport photons on Earth to the satellite mikius that was orbiting 1400
kilometers above the surface in the Modern Age we are growing used to hyper-fast Communications
being able to send information across the globe at the speed of light even though it seems like
this process is almost instant it still takes a finite amount of time for that information to
travel from one point to another but teleportation is a whole other game imagine sending information
with a transmission type of zero one of the most exciting branches of research looking
into quantum teleportation is trying to use quantum computers to build the world's first
Quantum Internet that will offer incredible advances over the current iteration foreign
quantum computers differ from traditional computers by their usage of qubits that can
be in many different states at once rather than traditional bits that can only have one
of two values this allows computers to process information at speeds magnitudes above what is
possible with today's most advanced computers if researchers can combine the many states qubits
and the speed of quantum teleportation a new generation of computers will be built that
can transmit information faster than light with no information loss one of these new
quantum computers will be able to complete a task in several minutes that would have taken
a traditional computer thousands of years to complete and after quantum computers become
more powerful and popular the dawning of the Quantum Internet will come currently
the internet functions by sending information across the globe through a series of cables
spanning across the surface of the Earth but a Quantum into internet would require only a
tiny percentage of the infrastructure and none of the hubs around the world
would need to be physically connected to each other this means getting internet
to every corner of the globe would become far easier and much less expensive of an endeavor
Quantum world is the past few years and one giant leap forward came from a
group of researchers in the Netherlands they have been working on developing a
network of nodes that can communicate with each other through quantum teleportation
previous experiments have shown that information can be sent between two adjacent nodes with no
physical connection but this is the first time additional nodes have been able to be included
by achieving this they have proved that teleportation is not limited between just
two points their studies shows that there may be no ceiling on the number of points
that can be connected in a quantum network allowing for teleportation between any of them
once enough nodes are connected to each other the Quantum Internet will be created and it will
function very much like a modular quantum computer so not only will each quantum computer be able to
process information thousands of times faster the Quantum Internet will allow all of these machines
to connect and communicate with each other creating something resembling a massive quantum
computer this new form of internet will also offer an unparalleled level of security over the
current cyber security because it is impossible to intercept Quantum information when it is being
sent from one node to another this is because the information is being sent between two entangled
nodes which act as a single system rather than two systems communicating over a distance
while they have only succeeded in using quantum teleportation to send information instantaneously
there should be no question about how profound of the technological advancement this could be
how far will scientists be able to take this incredible aspect of quantum mechanics one of
the limitations they are facing now concerns the mechanisms needed to distribute the entangled
States between distant nodes in addition the receiver will not only need to sort out not
only the classical information known as bits but also the quantum qubit states of the information
to extract it in order for this technology to keep advancing there must continue to be
Innovations in the manipulation and reading of quantum States but when advancements are
made what will be accomplished with this much computing power with the help of these machines
will scientists be able to discover a way to scale up quantum teleportation to a macroscopic level
super fast internet and computers are an extremely exciting application for quantum
teleportation but many scientists don't think that the physics of teleportation will end there
there was a time when physicists believe that only subatomic particles could become entangled
with each other but researchers have recently built entangled devices that are nearly at the
macroscopic scale just as researchers were able to entangle nearly macroscopic devices
teleportation of larger objects may still be in the realm of possibility while this may be some
time off there are those who believe that there is nothing in the laws of physics that prohibit this
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