Re First Object NOT Teleported from Earth to Orbit

["Dave Farber" <farber () gmail com>]

> Begin forwarded message:
>
> From: John Gilmore <gnu () toad com>
> Subject: Re: [IP] Re First Object NOT Teleported from Earth to Orbit 
> Date: July 14, 2017 at 3:05:34 AM EDT
> To: dave () farber net
> Cc: "ip" <ip () listbox com>
>
> > > This is the first time that any object has been teleported from Earth to
> > > orbit...
>
> > No, no, no.  It's not an object that was teleported.  It was
> > information about an object that was teleported.
>
> Uh, from looking at the article, NOTHING was teleported.  They sent up
> a satellite (using a chemical rocket) that contained some kind of
> photon detector.  They then sent photons from earth to the satellite,
> via a more complicated way of shining light upward.  No "teleportation"
> was involved; the photons got from earth to orbit by the ordinary
> motion of photons through space.
>
> The quantum folks adopted a word ("teleportation") that actually means
> something else to 99% of people.  Don't be confused.  See:
>
>  https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Teleportation
>  https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quantum_teleportation
>
> Note that to "teleport" one quantum state requires doing classical
> communication of two bits.  This isn't an example of a science-fiction
> quantum encrypting ansible that spits information instantly over vast
> distances by using two local stores of entangled qubits.  It doesn't
> work faster than the speed of light.  It's just quantum guys using
> confusing terminology for some odd properties of matter.
>
>       John




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