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But teleportation does exist. It's just not in the way people imagine.
In 2009, an important step was taken. That year, an experiment by researchers at the Universities of Maryland and Michigan in the United States managed to "teleport" an atom of ytterbium (a little-known element on the periodic table, with 70 protons in its nucleus) to a distance of 1 meter.
"Teleport" is in quotation marks because it wasn't exactly matter that was teleported.
What they managed to do was transfer the properties of one of the atoms, that is, quantum characteristics such as rotation, to another similar atom a meter away, which, in practice, is equivalent to teleporting it. In reality, none of the atoms moved.
This experiment proved that it is possible to copy the characteristics of entire atoms composed of multiple particles. Studies on quantum teleportation have been carried out since 1997 and, until then, experiments were carried out with simpler particles, such as photons or protons.
These researches, in fact, are not being done to try, someday, to teleport more complex matter (like a human being), but have helped to develop the principles of quantum computers.
In 2020, for example, in another study, scientists at the University of Rochester in the United States promoted the first transfer of information through quantum teleportation between particles of matter. Research into these near-instantaneous information transfers is advancing to create extremely powerful computers in the future.
In 2009, an important step was taken. That year, an experiment by researchers at the Universities of Maryland and Michigan in the United States managed to "teleport" an atom of ytterbium (a little-known element on the periodic table, with 70 protons in its nucleus) to a distance of 1 meter.
"Teleport" is in quotation marks because it wasn't exactly matter that was teleported.
What they managed to do was transfer the properties of one of the atoms, that is, quantum characteristics such as rotation, to another similar atom a meter away, which, in practice, is equivalent to teleporting it. In reality, none of the atoms moved.
This experiment proved that it is possible to copy the characteristics of entire atoms composed of multiple particles. Studies on quantum teleportation have been carried out since 1997 and, until then, experiments were carried out with simpler particles, such as photons or protons.
These researches, in fact, are not being done to try, someday, to teleport more complex matter (like a human being), but have helped to develop the principles of quantum computers.
In 2020, for example, in another study, scientists at the University of Rochester in the United States promoted the first transfer of information through quantum teleportation between particles of matter. Research into these near-instantaneous information transfers is advancing to create extremely powerful computers in the future.
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