1st April 2022, Today, a cross border team from 15 Chinese Universities, Cornell University, USA, Japan, and Oxford University, UK and University of Delhi, India have announced a significant breakthrough in teleportation technology with the successful teleporting of a mouse.
The experiment successfully teleported a live mouse from Delhi to Shenzhen and to Oxford. The mouse named "Flash" was "a little sleepy", but was back up and running in no time, said Professor of Physics at Oxford University Jonathan Bridgerton.
Flash" was "a little sleepy", but was "back up and running in no time"
A.P. Peterson Higgerley, a physicist at MIT who studies quantum mechanics, said this was "profound" and goes far beyond a "quantum leap". "Quantum physicists could see it coming: the quantum internet, quantum information technology, quantum computing, quantum cryptography, and now this!" said Higgerley, who wasn't involved in the study. "This is going to fundamentally change the way the world works. I'm blown away."
Elon Musk said that "there are some challenges to further develop the technology so that it is safe for humans, but that it will be very solved soon", and recently tweeted that he will create a new company to further develop this technology, and that this will be integral for his future space to colonies mars.
Researchers proved in 1992 that teleportation works, at least mathematically, then demonstrated it in the lab for the first time in 1998 using photons. Scientists around the world have replicated and built upon that work ever since.
This is following the successful Chinese experiment in 2016, when scientists in China revealed they had used a "spooky" property of the universe to pull off teleportation between the ground and space for the first time.
Scientists in Japan's Yokahoma University in 2019 achieved a breakthrough by transporting information within a diamond.
Quantum teleportation is similar to the "Star Trek" version of teleportation, where a person is scanned and reassembled somewhere else in the universe. This is further developing the entangling that binds certain states of particles, like spin or polarization, but traps knowledge of those states in a murky and bizarre situation called "superposition." Those states were resolved through magnetic forces which enabled the superposition to be reversed, and successfully transported to a new location.
Mohammed Singh from Bangalore, 22 is leader of the project introduced how it was achieved. "All of our lives have been upended by COVID, with travel restrictions, and we just had enough, and thought, come on, we can do this" Cross border cooperation was essential for success on this project. "We utilised talent from all over the world to achieve this breakthrough". We had team members from 190 countries. We e assigned people with different tasks and methods to solve each of the problems. "We wanted to make sure we included talent from every country in the world. It was amazing how much talent we could utilise in different countries"
"Since we have been unable to return to China for 2 years, we have been trying to find any way possible to return". "We realised that teleportation was possible, and so we dedicated all our expertise on this" We coordinated with different people in the team, and this is a true example of what can be achieved and the importance of international exchange, collaboration, and research.
The first significant breakthrough came from Joseph Ndayishimiye from Burundi who was working together in a team with Maria Silva from Brazil. They were given a computer as part of the project funding and they managed to solve the first fundamental problem related to quantum astrophysics atrophy that unlocked further development by the rest of the team.
One of the main reasons we managed to do this, is that all of our team had different perspectives and problem solving methods. We were able to look at each problem in hundreds of different ways.said Emilia Ricci from Italy who was working with Johnathon Moore from Australia. We both had very different perspectives
Another remarkable aspect of this was the part that women played in this discovery. There were 192 women researchers who contributed and solved problems related to this, which marks one of the most significant shifts in physics breakthroughs.
We are planning to use the same methods and international team to tackle other important problems such as climate change, ending poverty, and educating the world and we are planning to explore outer space together.
The project is open source and is open to anyone who would is able to and would like to contribute. We have a free course online so you can get up to speed, and then start. Students can register on globaladmissions for more information.
The project announcement was released on April 1st 2022 which is April Fools in many countries. A day when fictitious news stories are released.
