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‘Nobody thought it was possible’: Quantum teleportation is here | BBC Science Focus Magazine (www.sciencefocus.com)
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[–] ilmagico@lemmy.world 35 points 22 hours ago (2 children)

The second one, of course:

the new research proposes that the breakthrough could make these communications super secure and nearly instantaneous – limited only by the speed of light.

(enphasis mine)

So, yeah, we didn't break any laws of physics.

[–] Dark_Arc@social.packetloss.gg 1 points 4 hours ago

Well... I think the idea is once you can reliably send a photon, you can start sending entangled photos. Then you can use those to build networking hardware that transmits bits instantly.

[–] SendMePhotos@lemmy.world 8 points 21 hours ago (1 children)

Oh so this is teleportation?

[–] FourPacketsOfPeanuts@lemmy.world 19 points 20 hours ago (1 children)

It's not teleportation, it's clickbait nonsense

[–] SendMePhotos@lemmy.world 7 points 17 hours ago

But it says it's teleportation. Are you calling them a liar?