For the first time in the history of successful experiments,

Transient teleportation - or teleport - began step by step to become true. These successful people are Chinese scientists.

If you are a fan of sci-fi movies, you probably won't be familiar with the phrase "instant teleport " - or teleport or teleportation. It is a form of movement over time and space , making the distance of thousands of kilometers only takes a few seconds to pass.

Teleport in cinema.

Such a form of "virtual" movement is obviously only in fiction. However, in the 90s of the last century, experts had the idea of ​​turning teleport into reality through quantum physics .

And now, science has made a big step when successfully shifting one thing to outer space satellite, with a distance of up to 500,000m.

Specifically, Chinese experts have successfully shifted a photon onto the Micius satellite , which has a high sensitivity function, allowing the quantum state of individual photons to be detected on the ground. .

The satellite was launched to serve human quantum experiments, and it seems to have done very well.

The satellite is launched to finance human quantum experiments.

It is known that this is the experiment that brought the first results in the teleport field."Large distance displacement has been seen as an important factor in large-scale quantum protocols," the team said.

"Previous teleporting experiments had a very limited distance - only about 100km, because the photon was . missing during the teleportation."

What is teleport?

In films like Star Trek, the spacecraft shifts the crew with a light.

But in fact, teleporting in quantum physics is not the same. It depends on the so-called "quantum entanglement" - a situation where a group of quantum objects (such as photons) form at the same time and point in space.

Quantum entanglement - when two objects share the same existence in two different spaces.

In quantum physics, the situation corresponds to how they share existence with each other, and that relationship will continue even if the distance between them is how much.

By some method, that connection can be used to transfer quantum information, by "downloading" information about the second photon. Thus, this photon will carry the same information and format as the first photon, and that is the "teleport" in quantum.

In this announcement, Chinese experts created quantum entanglements with a frequency of up to 4,000 per second. Then, they launched a photon onto the satellite, keeping one particle behind. Finally, they create a state of entanglement with distances of up to 500km.

Perhaps the future of human beings can do this?

However, this connection cannot transport anything larger than a photon, since it is quite fragile. Anyway, this is still a major turning point in teleportation technology.

Maybe in the future, people only take a few seconds to travel thousands of kilometers, or even to other planets?

The study was published on MIT Technology Review.