Scientists Take Quantum Steps Toward Teleportation : NPR

[polaris93]

http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=128910996

"Quantum entanglement" may sound like an awful sci-fi romance flick, but it's actually a phenomenon that physicists say may someday lead to the ability to teleport an object all the way across

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[brezhnev]

This is where quantum entanglement - sometimes described as "teleportation" - begins. "An invisible umbilical cord emerges connecting these two electrons. And you can separate them by as much as a galaxy if you want. Then, if you vibrate one of them, somehow on the other end of the galaxy the other electron knows that its partner is being jiggled.

I have an idea for an SF story in which piezoelectric crystals are doped with atoms that have entangled electrons. Presto, transistorized ansible! Thinking of it, though, you'd have to get the electrons to stay put. This should actually work. Should I file a patent?

[polaris93]

If you can build it, by all means file a patent on it! Maybe it'll inspire others to use quantum entanglement in new ways that could eventually give us the stars. :D

[brezhnev]

I could build it if they'd let me have access to that supercollider in Switzerland and a few top physicists. Maybe.

[polaris93]

Heh. Quantum entanglement, though -- why would you need the supercollider? You don't need high-energy electrons for quantum entanglement.

[brezhnev]

That's why I need the physicists -- to tell me how to make this stuff.

[polaris93]

Ah. Well, in the meantime, maybe these will prove useful:

Quantum entanglement - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Reverse Engineering A Quantum Compass - Science News

Technology Review: Blogs: arXiv blog: Physicist Discovers How to Teleport Energy

Appaerntly Mother Nature has already harnessed quantum mechanics in organisms, starting maybe as far back as the advent of life on Earth. So all we have to do is figure out how she did it. :-)