Is this really how it works?

[questionposter]

So if you take two entangled particles and shoot a photon at one particle, will that particle really destroy the photon and have it re-appear on the other end comming out of the other particle? Because I think some nova or pbs program said that, and you'd think something like successful instantaneous materialization would make the headlines. I mean what they are saying has to be coming from somewhere, but it seems like a leap. How would you even measure that without destroying the entanglement?

Edited December 21, 2011 by questionposter

[derek w]

I am very interested in what your saying sounds logical to me.But where are you reading this from,please can you give a source and more details.

[DrRocket]

So if you take two entangled particles and shoot a photon at one particle, will that particle really destroy the photon and have it re-appear on the other end comming out of the other particle? Because I think some nova or pbs program said that, and you'd think something like successful instantaneous materialization would make the headlines. I mean what they are saying has to be coming from somewhere, but it seems like a leap. How would you even measure that without destroying the entanglement?

 

What were you drinking when the show aired ?

[questionposter]

What were you drinking when the show aired ?

 

If you knew anything about quantum mechanics you'd know being drunk wouldn't change your perception of it.

 

[Cap'n Refsmmat]

I think DrRocket knows quite a bit about quantum mechanics, which is why he found your post absurd.

 

It sounds like you're mixing up something they said about quantum teleportation, but it doesn't work that way.

[questionposter]

I think DrRocket knows quite a bit about quantum mechanics, which is why he found your post absurd.

 

It sounds like you're mixing up something they said about quantum teleportation, but it doesn't work that way.

 

Ok, that's what I thought, that's why I put in the topic post ITSELF that I had my doubts about that being true. But I still have to think what it meant instead of that then.

[shawnhcorey]

I always thought quantum teleportation involved two entangled quanta and two photons. With it, you could "teleport" the properties of one photon to the other instantaneously. None of the quanta, however, move faster than light, just the properties of one photon.

[swansont]

It's far more likely that you have misunderstood what the show stated. Find a link to the show and the time tag, or to a transcript, and somebody can probably break it down into more manageable chunks.