Blob wrote:Did you know they teleported a photon and more recently an atom???
Yes that's true - although the scientists and media can be accused of stretching the word "teleport" beyond its original or general meaning. It's more accurate to consider one photon puffing out of existance and simulatneously an identicle, second photon puffing into existance elsewhere - rather than a single photon actually moving from one place to another.
Another thing to note is that according to quantum theories all photons and fundamental particles "jump" small distances all the time anyway. Things do not glide smoothly like on our scale of things.
Well that's not quite right either. Nothing really poofs into and out of existance. They are just intrinsicly linked through a weird phenomonon called entanglement. The particles act like evil twins for the entire time they exist. Their spins are always opposite. No matter how far apart they are.
So lets say we have photon A and photon B which have become entangled. We put A in Annandale and B in Boston. Then we take photon C and entangle it with A.
Well what happens?
A becomes the complement of C.
And since B was already A's evil twin B switches polrization to match A's new spin! So B becomes C!
What happens to the original information in B? Don't know, thus the poofing that blob was reffering to. The original information is gone.
But enough for the science lessons, I'm hungry. Speaking of photons, anyone ever had Pho before? That's Vietnamese noodles for those who don't know.
It is not length of life, but depth of life. -- Ralph Waldo Emerson
) when I'm not around to do it myself!
(With a little funding maybe we could hire a clown... oh wait, we already have plenty of those! AND I AIN'T PAYIN' YA! 
Ahhh, ha ha ha ha!)
