Quantum teleportation is the feat in which an object is disintegrated in one place and then perfectly reconstructed elsewhere, destroying the original copy in the process. It is much like the process someone would go through to fax a piece of paper, only the original copy is shredded after the fax is complete. As fictitious as this may sound, it may soon become a reality, but not in the way you may think.
The concept of teleportation was first introduced in the early 20th century through science fiction. It was often seen in superhero comics and a few decades later on screen in the popular Star Trek series. It was seen as nothing more than an unattainable concept that would only ever be recognised as fiction. This widely accepted thought was kept until 1993 when a group from Stanford University discovered a technique that would allow for literal teleportation.
This concept was used in 1998 by a team of practical physicists at the California Institute of Technology (CIT) who achieved quantum teleportation by transporting a photon (a particle of light) more than a metre. Six years later in 2004, another group from Australia outdid this by teleporting an entire photon stream, in the form of a laser beam, across a laboratory.
How did they do that you ask? By using a concept called ‘quantum entanglement’. Quantum entanglement is the process in which two photons are conjoint, or ‘entangled’, making the information they carry identical. This is useful in teleportation because as the first photon is sent through the cable to its destination, the second photon has its information modified with a laser, which simultaneously changes the information coded into the first photon.
Once the quantum entanglement process has reached completion, th...
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...t is predicted to become a mainstream method of data storage and transferring by early 2018, speeding up the process in which information is moved from one computer to another. Not only does this circuit occupy millimetres of space, it has also broken a quantum speed record – Andreas and his team’s new system can teleport 10,000 qubits of information per second, beating the previous methods quantum speed, which could only manage a little over two thirds of that, being able to teleport 7,100 qubits of information per second.
This recent breakthrough means that we are able to process a larger amount of data per second, enabling us to teleport larger amounts of information every second. This seemingly obvious statement may not seem like much, but to physicists everywhere it is one step closer to the transportation of solid matter, which may eventually be human matter.
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My teleporter is a very complex machine used to make one object disintegrate and appear somewhere else in perfect replica. This is a machine that works on 3-dimensional objects as opposed to 2-dimensional sheets of paper. It looks almost like a fax machine and scans the original object, breaks it up into billions of tiny atoms, scans it to a new location and rearranges it in its perfect form.
In 1905, the great physicist, Albert Einstein, put forward a new theory called "The Special Theory of Relativity".
Quantum mechanics or also known as quantum physics is a field of science which studies the behaviour of particles at sub-atomic level. This theory tells us that short-lived pairs of particles and their antiparticles are constantly being created and destroyed in an apparently empty space.
This Honor Study Topic explores discoveries and theories and how these are relevant to people. This is thought provoking in that the ideas are presented in the essay and makes the reader wonder about the possibilities. For example, the idea of teleportation is viewed and with the extensive knowledge present in the world, perhaps it will one day be a reality.
Throughout the ages, outstanding physicists, to the movies, to some of the greatest science fiction novels of all time, have pondered the idea of time-travel. The thought of actually being able to travel to another time or universe has long since enthralled, enveloped, and overwhelmed some of the greatest minds in the history of physics. No one person can actually prove any of their theories, but a few actually make sense. Meaning that they do not violate the laws of physics. One of the main theories suggested, are wormholes. Wormholes are considered to connect two regions of flat space-time, two universes, or two parts of the same universe. There is a lot of theoretical evidence that wormholes exist, with an equal amount of evidence that they do not exist. However, no matter what one’s belief is, the existence of wormholes still makes you wonder…
The idea of an elevator into space is not a new one. First contemplated by a Russian scientist in 1895,
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Quantum physics is based off of Quantum Theory which comes from a series of three different experiments performed in the 20th and 19th century. The double slit experiment was the first to give an insight of quantum mechanics, and actually happened before quantum mechanics was even discovered. Thomas young came up with a version as far back as 1801, from which has been repeated thousands of times since by scientists. The double slit experiment is set up with two slits, and a light source behind the slits and then once the light passes through the slits it forms an interference pattern. Prior to the double slit experiment light was known to behave as waves. When scientists shoot the light through the slits, they found that it radiated out at each source, as if it was a whole new source, causing all new ripples. Then scientists shot just one light beam through, and which it formed an interference pattern of lines. Baffling the scientists, they then shot one atom at a time through the slits, and in return the same results were observed. Giving the idea that light acts as w...
Quantum computing is the first step into all technologies of the future. It involves using electric patterns in the brain to control electronics. A twenty-six-year-old quadriplegic has an implant the size of an aspirin sitting on the top of his brain that allows him to play simple video games, control a robotic arm, and even turn on and off a TV. By 2012 cyber kinetic chips could be able to process thoughts as fast as speech (Taylor). The transition eventually will be made from implants to headbands with unimaginable power. With this headband “Any kind of information is available anytime [a user wants]it, simply speak a question or even think it. [Once connected, a person]will always be connected wirelessly to the network, and an answer will return from a vast collectively-prodeuced data matrix. Google queries will seem quaint”(Kirkpatrick). With this breakthrough, the necessity to learn languages may disappear (Kirkpatrick). The biggest step is “network e...
and decided to look into it. At this time television had already been invented by some inventors such as Paul Nipkow
Scientists Catherine C. McGeoch and Cong Wong have been working on the quantum computer. The quantum computer works by not being limited by ones and zeros and can actually read 1.1 as a valid number. Being able to read .1 higher doesn 't seems like a big deal but when these quantum computers are put up against gaming computers the quantum has a faster processor ("Harnessing Energy Sensory Processing"). These studies have been theorized about for years but we just now have the technology to be able to get this revolutionary idea into reality. The theory behind this is that with any extra amount being able to read in the processes that increases the potential of a processor exponentially. At the moment quantum computers cost about 6,000 times more to make than a normal gaming PC. Your average gaming computer goes for about 1,000 dollars and up granted 1000 is low end for gaming computers and it does not leave much room for a really good Intel brand processor. Not only would the idea of quantum computers not have existed without the creativity that comes from technology, but we also would have left standard processors at dual and quad core set ups. Now days any server for a company has at least 8 cores or a 16 core processor. The cores in a standard PC just help the other cores with strain and make the pc able to handle more processes at one
Most people don't know where the idea of the laser came from. The idea for the laser came from a machine called a maser. The maser was a tool that was able to strengthen, or amplify radio and light waves. The first laser was made in California in 1960. It was built by Theodore Maiman along with a group of American scientists. The material they used for a concentrator was a man- made ruby. This was done by, coiling a simple flash tube around a rod, and beaming powerful flashes of light at it. The result was pulses of red laser light. Once they made the device they had to name it. They had think of some word or words to described it. They came up with Light Amplification by Stimulated Emission of Radiation. Using the first letter of each main word they named it laser. The laser had everyone excited.
A second invention I believe may come to pass in the future whether near or far is a transportation system something similar to the one used in the old show Star Trek. It is a proven fact that peopl...