China's Pursuit Of Teleportation Revealed By WikiLeaks Cables

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It's no secret that China is beating up on America and the West in everything from infrastructure to technology investment, but news of exactly what the People's Republic is up to is often scarce. So while the diplomatic establishment continues to reel from the stink of its own dirty laundry in last week's Wikileaks document dump, cables coming from the American Embassy in Beijing are also shedding light on the strides Chinese scientists are making in far-out fields like nuclear fission, biometrics, and even quantum teleportation.

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[Cisco2035]

11:21 AM on 12/16/2010

There's more to teleportation than the technology. We must consider the social implications as well. http://cisco2035.wordpress.com/2010/11/16/facts-about-teleportation/

[Marianne TB]

10:20 AM on 12/10/2010

that meal I had last week at The China Buffet pretty much teleported me for about 8 hours. even the dogs left the room.

[chango369]

05:26 PM on 12/09/2010

Pffft. Whatever. They are never going to answer the most important question of our time: Are you ready for some football?!!!!?

[bnyb]

03:47 PM on 12/09/2010

HP you really needed to include the word 'QUANTUM' in the headline. What a joke this site has become.

[erikqj]

01:25 PM on 12/09/2010

Quantum teleportation isn't about transporting objects, but rather transfer the quantum state of one microscopic quantum system to another. The purpose is to transfer information, either for communication over distance, or even within the CPU and memory of computers. It's an essential technology for quantum computing, which many may have heard of. The survival of "Moore's Law" hangs in the balance here. If China becomes the first to develop quantum computing, we can all wave goodbye to Intel.

[RedDogBear]

05:22 PM on 12/12/2010

"If China becomes the first to develop quantum computing, we can all wave goodbye to Intel. "

First of all we are at a minimum decades away from a usable quantum computer. Probably much longer and it may never happen. Second, even if there is a usable quantum computer they aren't really general purpose computers. They are very specific and designed to solve certain kinds of problems that require intensive number crunching, such as cracking codes. So they are at best a challenge to Cray and other super computer vendors. Intel will be fine.

[erikqj]

02:12 PM on 12/16/2010

My phrasing merely placed quantum computing somewhere in the future ("becomes"). The number of decades it's away isn't relevant to the importance of the breakthrough.

I remember when the first generation of Pentium processors came (in 1993), there was an article in a computer magazine, with different "specialists" sharing their thoughts on such aboundance of computing power. All of them believed that that generation of processors (original Pentium, that is) would end up covering all possible personal computing needs in the future. Go figure...

It's true, of course, that quantum processing isn't general purpose computing, but then most of the processing capacity in a PC isn't done by general purpose circuitry. Much of the CPU and all of the GPU are dedicated to number crunching.

If quantum computing is one decade away, then it's use in personal computing is probably two decades away or more, due to cost and the need for applications to use it. However, you can trust that whatever processing power is held by a Cray will be held by millions of PCs some few years later.

[redmaple]

12:54 PM on 12/09/2010

So they can cut down on the cost of exporting their stuff.

[CloseToUranus]

10:18 PM on 12/10/2010

ha ha ha. zzzz...

[lilylee86]

03:39 AM on 12/09/2010

It is good, I think.

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[linaya]

03:05 AM on 12/09/2010

I don't think they are actually making "strides" in teleportation. Wishful thinking is a not really a stride.
But hey - go China. If they can get it to work it would be a great way to travel.

[nmaddog7]

04:53 AM on 12/09/2010

It's for things, not ppl, most likely small things, like modifying structures of plastic for example.

[Edward Standley]

10:38 PM on 12/08/2010

Wonder if they could teleport Kim Jong Il and his boy to Camden N.J.?

[paulbenjouse]

08:15 PM on 12/08/2010

Beam me up, Scotty.

I'll stick with the EV for now.

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[mike72]

08:04 PM on 12/08/2010

DNA for Walking? Monitoring the walking itself to identify individuals???

It is freaky. These darn Chinese can think of everything to identify and control!

[ZombyWoof]

07:39 PM on 12/08/2010

It'll certainly speed up Chinese food delivery.

[Sizzzle]

03:30 AM on 12/09/2010

LOOOOOL that's hysterical!

[Hnorc]

06:01 PM on 12/08/2010

I've got a few photon torpedoes and fasers (stuck on stun of course), that I would be willing to sell them.

[Rebecca McGrath]

05:46 PM on 12/08/2010

Anything to make my commute faster.

[Carbon Forteetoo]

05:46 PM on 12/08/2010

Has it ever occurred to the Chinese scientist working on teleportation that space is the thing which is moving?

[Edward Standley]

10:35 PM on 12/08/2010

When I was a little kid, I thought it would be great if I could levitate and watch the earth pass beneath me!