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Old 03-27-2005, 11:45 PM
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Teleporting Pixies

It enables the teleporting of photons, yes. But as in my previous post - this doesn't help teleporting humans. For exactly the reasons I said.

Firstly, humans don't experience quantum effects - they're too big, they simply don't have different quantum states in the way photons do. And cannot be changed from one sort of human into another.

Secondly, you'll note that the example you give of teleporting photons requires two photons already to exist. For the equivalent in human teleportation you would require two humans who are then made indistinguishable. But the type of teleportation that we want sends one human from one place to another - and preferably doesn't alter them in the process.

So whilst quantum entanglement can enable the impression of teleporting photons, it can't even enable the actual teleporting of a single photon let alone the teleporting of a Pixie lady into my room.
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