China has Achieved Teleportation
China has achieved teleportation. Tucked away in a Tibetan mountain top, Chinese scientists made Einstein's theory into a reality. Early this month, Scientists successfully beamed a photon from a lab on earth to a satellite station launched a year prior. The impact; technology free from the limits of physics that allows it's holder to operate on a scale previously unimaginable. We are now discussing the possibilities of 'quantum class' of engineering that could render what currently know obsolete. Technology poised to 'dominate the way the world works' according to the Communist Party...and they're right.
How did they do it? The Chinese took two 'connected' photons, one on earth and another in space. Both linked in a way Einstein described as 'spooky' but couldn't fully understand. According to Einstein's theory, which provided the basis for the experiment, a change in one of these connected photons would be mirrored in it's counterpart. By manipulating this concept the Chinese were able to beam information from Tibet to space, 870 miles sky-bound without moving through time and space. And this is only the beginning.
By increasing the scale of the experiment using multiple photons, scientists are exploring the possibility of beaming more complex sets of information. The result of this, at least in it's early stage can lead to a quantum internet. An information system free of cables, infrastructure and unbound by the conventional laws of time and space. When brought to speed, this is expected to render foundation of the modern world obsolete.
While this is only a small step in an previously dark direction, the take away from this experiment is possibility. Sorry, the possibility of beaming physical matter Star Trek style is far from being on the table. What's most exciting is the implications this has for moving information with a level of security, speed and efficiency previously thought impossible. While you're still going to take the trash out on foot, and remain stuck in traffic for the foreseeable future be prepared to do it in a world vastly different from the one you know.
Above: The Micius quantum teleportation satellite launches toward orbit on August 16, 2016.
