"There is a big race going on between five or six groups to prove Einstein wrong."

[Homicidal_Squirrel]

Scientists Achieve First Ever Quantum Teleportation.

 

[Nytmare]

A slightly less glamorized explanation of the EPR (Einstein Podolsky Rosen) paradox. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/EPR_paradox

 

[tomBitonti]

Note that the subject is *not* relativity, special or otherwise, and is *not* the photo-electric effect, and *not* brownian motion. The subject is one of the details (albeit an important one) of quantum mechanics. Saying that the groups are trying to "prove Einstein wrong" seems to take aim at one of the major results, not the detail one.

Thx!

TomB

 

[freyar]

This is yet another example of journalists getting science wrong in one way or another. Sigh. While I haven't read up on this particular experiment, quantum teleportation does not allow you to send information instantaneously. What it does is allow you to replicate a quantum system at a distance (while destroying the original copy) BUT ONLY after you send information in a normal way at lower than the speed of light. As for Einstein, his views on this type of effect have been proven wrong long ago.

 

[Grimleyblack]

^ HUZZAH!! for media hype