[Klaynos]

A quick note on entanglement, there is no information transfer...

[swansont]

Newbies_Kid, on 29 September 2010 - 02:53 PM, said:

I have a friend who study Quantum physics and he had told me something about the teleportation of information. I don't remember very clearly but if i'm not mistaken, he said about a photon was being shot by a photon and it will produce or give birth to a new photon. The newborn photon will have similar characteristic to its primary and there are entanglement between both of them. As the primary receive an information, the new photon will also instantly receive the same information and vice versa. So can this possibly be used to teleport a mass?

No. Teleportation is about transferring information about the state of a particle.

[G3N1U5]

Current teleportation is not like the one on "Start-Trek". Within a Lab Teleportation was achieved however, this was only the transfer/copy of one photon's properties to another photon. Also another problem is that if this principle was to put into practice in the real world Theoretically, since your photons etc are being copied, you will be created at one spot somewhere in the world; whilst you would have to be destroyed in your original place... Which I dont know about you, sounds pretty unethical.

Also since the Information of each photon would have to be transfered to a reciever how would that be done?

Most likely through Internet or something like that... and at the most optimum speeds of internet today, it would take years until we reach our destination.

Thanks Hope I answered you well considering this is the first question I ever answered

[ewmon]

Just on general principle, if something is theoretically possible but not done in practice, one would want to ask what obstacles exist in its implementation that prevent it from being put into practice (ie, made practical). As of yet, I have not heard of anyone say, "But for this difficulty implementing it, we could have teleportation."