First ever Earth-orbit teleportation completed

**Pedro Silva** Tue Jul 11, 2017 7:53 pm

My friends, this was taken from Sky News:

http://news.sky.com/story/first-ever-earth-orbit-teleportation-completed-10944701

**bb1** Tue Jul 11, 2017 8:05 pm

Scientists have completed the first teleportation of an object from Earth to a satellite orbiting more than 300 miles away.

Alas, those of you expecting Scotty to beam them up soon will be sorely disappointed - the object teleported was merely a single photon.

While the experiment doesn't bring us any closer to teleporting matter, it is a huge leap forward for quantum physics.

The team of Chinese researchers behind the successful teleportation came together from a number of disciplines and included quantum physicists as well as rocket scientists.

In 2016, they launched a satellite called Micius, named after Chinese philosopher from the 5th century BC, from the southwestern Gobi Desert.

Micius is equipped with a super sensitive photon receiver which enables it to detect the quantum state of a single photon which is fired at it from the Earth....etc.

That is truly awesome; quantum physics is amazing. Unfortunately, I don't understand a word of it, but it is leading to whole new ways of seeing space and time.

**Pedro Silva** Tue Jul 11, 2017 9:18 pm

bb1, your words are mine.

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