Re First Object NOT Teleported from Earth to Orbit

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

> Begin forwarded message:
>
> From: Mary Shaw <mary.shaw () gmail com>
> Subject: Re: [IP] Re First Object NOT Teleported from Earth to Orbit
> Date: July 14, 2017 at 9:29:40 AM EDT
> To: Dave Farber <dave () farber net>
>
> In addition, I'm having some trouble with "photon" as a member of class "object".
>
> Mary
>
> On Fri, Jul 14, 2017 at 6:16 AM, Dave Farber <farber () gmail com <mailto:farber () gmail com>> wrote:
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> > Begin forwarded message:
> >
> > From: John Gilmore <gnu () toad com <mailto: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 <mailto:dave () farber net>
> > Cc: "ip" <ip () listbox com <mailto: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/Teleportation>
> >  https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quantum_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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