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(Phys.org) A trio of researchers at Tohoku University in Japan, led by Masahiro Hotta, has proposed a new way to teleport energy that allows for doing so over long distances. In their paper published in Physical Review A, the team describes a theory they've developed that takes advantage of the properties of squeezed light or vacuum states to allow for "teleporting" information about an energy state, allowing for making use of that energyin essence, teleporting energy over long distances.
On television shows such as Star Trek, people are moved from one location to another via teleportation, where the people (or objects) are not literally sentinstead their essence is reestablished in another local, giving the illusion of movement. In real life, nothing like that exists, though scientists have begun using the term teleportation to describe the results of entanglement experimentswhere two entangled particles are joined somehow despite no apparent connection between them. Changes to one particle happen automatically to the other. Scientists have broadened their experiments to include light and matter, and more recently, energy.
Back in 2008, Hotta, with another team, first devised a theory for teleporting energy based on taking advantages of vacuum statestheory suggests they are not truly empty, instead there are particles in them that pop in and out of existence, some of which are entangled. While interesting, the theory suggested that teleporting energy could only be carried out over very short distances. In this new effort, Hotta et al have found a way to increase the teleportation distance by making use of a property known as squeezed light which is tied to a squeezed vacuum state.
Quantum mechanics laws limit the ways that values in a system (such as a vacuum) can be measuredphysicists have found however, that increasing the uncertainty of one value, decrease the uncertainty of the value of othersa sort of squeezing effect. When applied to light, theory suggests, it leads to more pairs traveling together through a vacuum, which in turn leads to more of them being entanglement, and that the team suggests should allow for teleporting energy over virtually any distance.
http://phys.org/news/2014-01-theory-teleport-energy-distances.html
longship
(40,416 posts)Who wrote this?
Who was the editor that let this pass?
dixiegrrrrl
(60,010 posts)As usual, the military has a long list of applications for this, betcha.
Ichingcarpenter
(36,988 posts)nevermind......... We have the NSA.
90-percent
(6,829 posts)Sounds like somebody got their hands on the Tesla papers the U.S. gov't scoffed up and hid away after his death?
-90% Jimmy
Ichingcarpenter
(36,988 posts)I thought of Tesla too when I found the article.
Callmecrazy
(3,065 posts)Being an electrician, Tesla is one of my heroes. The man was brilliant and a little nutty. The thing I read was that he wanted to transport electricity through the air and all we had to do was have an "antenna" to receive your power. But they couldn't figure out how to bill for it, and Tesla had no mind for finance. He just wanted to see his stuff work; he didn't care about money.
All you have to do is change the power's frequency to make it travel in the air. Why do we have to go all quantum entanglement with it?