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Is teleporting of people going to become a reality this century?
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No, they haven't. They have "quantum teleported" a photon.
Quantum teleporting isn't the same as teleportation as it's normally understood. It transits information from one particle to another rather than moving the actual particle.
Also as a photon is an elementary particle with 0 mass, so it is hard to describe it as an "object".
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But that's not what they're doing. Two photons existed in two separate locations prior to the quantum teleportation.
This teleportation transferred information between two photons, it didn't even transport the photons - let alone an object.
The possible eventual extrnsion extension of this would not be teleportation as people normally think of it, but rather fully formed identical clones of people being created (through some entirely separate process we are in no way capable of) and then the person's mind being transferred into the clone. However as your article states, even this form of teleportation is a different problem entirely from what has occured here.
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The consequence of this is that quantum teleportation has no observable physical consequences. It is, in a way, a mathematical trick, having a very obscure physical meaning. While quantum teleportation does, strictly speaking, change something in the Universe, this change cannot be told apart from the lack of it.
These teleportation experiments are not a gimmick, but their popular interpretation is incorrect. Teleportation of a photon in space will never lead to any kind of practically useful technology (unless we do not know something crucial about the Universe), and rather these experiments are illustrations of tricks we can perform with the modern technology. They are pretty useless as far as science goes.
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