The ability to quantum-entanglingly teleport at least information is so crucial that China should hurry to divert 99.99% of its military spending and domestic control spending to this project.
Teleportation is a very viable technology, even if currently only at the beginning of the initial incipient phase of development.
The Washington Times says that the “fledgling teleportation capability may not be able to beam people around the galaxy as in the science fiction show ‘Star Trek,’ but the ability to move around tiny bits of information more efficiently may give Beijing a secure method one day to collect and transfer sensitive data” (“Boldly going: China’s teleportation prowess comes under congressional panel’s scrutiny,” February 6, 2024).
“The Chinese do appear to have chosen that to be an area in which they want to excel globally, and one aspect of that is China has launched two different satellites that are capable of quantum communication from outer space, which includes quantum teleportation of individual particles mediated by satellite communication,” Rand Corp. physical scientist Edward Parker told the commission. “No other country is known to have launched quantum communication satellites.”
Quantum teleportation is made possible through the entanglement of two particles, such as photons, which form at the same instant and place and continue to share a mutual existence when separated by large distances, according to MIT Technology Review. Information downloaded to the photon in one spot would theoretically be transmitted via an entangled link to the photon in another spot.
In 2020, the National Science Foundation funded research showing teleportation may be possible in electrons and photons. That same year, scientists at Fermilab and the California Institute of Technology said they teleported “qubits,” or quantum bits of information, over 27 miles using state-of-the-art photon detectors and off-the-shelf equipment.
Space News reported in March 2023 that “China in recent years included quantum communications and quantum computing in a list of technological megaprojects for breakthroughs by 2030 and has been noted as a strategic emerging industry.”
Not everyone agrees that that quantum computing and quantum entanglement “may be possible,” let alone that information “downloaded” to a photon in one spot may possibly “be transmitted via an entangled link to the photon in another spot,” despite the publication of articles saying that this is being done.
The Physics Detective says it’s all stuff and nonsense (“Quantum entanglement is scientific fraud,” February 26, 2023).
The bullshit started in 1935 with Bohr’s reply to the EPR paper. [The 1935 paper in which “Einstein, Podolsky, and Rosen said quantum mechanics must be incomplete, because it predicts a system in two different states at the same time.”] Bohr’s paper was rambling, off-topic, and pretentious. He didn’t address the issue at all. Instead he gave a lofty lecture on complementarity and the double slit experiment, then energy and time, and space and time. In the middle of all the condescending bluster he slipped in this: “an influence on the very conditions which define the possible types of predictions regarding the future behavior of the system”. That’s spooky action at a distance. He also slipped in this: “we see that the argumentation of the mentioned authors does not justify their conclusion”. No, we don’t. We see Bohr ducking the issue. We see quantum bullshit from the man who said reality does not exist until you measure it…. From the man who said quantum mechanics surpasseth all human understanding, and you can never hope to understand it, so don’t even try. Bohr even had the gall to say the “quantum-mechanical description of physical phenomena would seem to fulfill, within its scope, all rational demands of completeness”. Even though quantum mechanics doesn’t tell us what a photon is, how pair production works, or what the electron is. Even though it dismisses electron spin as an abstract notion via a spinning faster than light non sequitur. Despite the hard scientific evidence of the Einstein-de Haas effect, Larmor precession, and the wave nature of matter. And do note the use of the word “rational.” Bohr was just so patronising. You will not find one person who has a good word to say about his paper. Even Clauser said he found Bohr’s ideas “muddy and difficult to understand”.
Much of what the Physics Detective says in this post is technical. But when what passes for physics starts making unverifiable claims based on rejecting the laws of identity and causality—like claims that photons in different places can share a “mutual existence,” a doctrine that not any experimental results could substantiate but which bad interpretation using bad metaphysics and bad epistemology might assert—the layman has reason to suspect that something other than science is being done even if he can’t follow the math.
The Detective concludes:
Propaganda and censorship has been par for the course for decades, along with ad hominem abuse and de-platforming. The tofu-eating wokerati learned it from the tenured academics living a life of ease on the public purse. That’s why you can’t read about people like Krackleur, Mamas, and Christian in Nature, or in Quanta magazine. Instead you can read how Physicists Create a Wormhole Using a Quantum Computer. Wooo! You can also read how “the power of a quantum computer grows exponentially with each additional entangled qubit”. The problem is that quantum entanglement is bullshit, so entangled qubits are bullshit, so quantum computing is bullshit too. That’s why it still hasn’t delivered anything, and never ever will. What else would you expect when the quantum entanglement story is a fairy tale? It’s a castle in the air, built of bullshit, blarney, and bollocks, all mixed in with straw men and non sequiturs, all held aloft by hype, hokum and hogwash. It is sophistry peddled by shysters and charlatans. It is cargo-cult pseudoscience promoted by quantum quacks who are spinning you a yarn and playing you for a sucker. The emperor has no clothes, and scientific fraud leaves a nasty taste in the mouth. Remember that the next time you read some jam-tomorrow puff-piece about quantum information science.
Hey, tell us what you really think.
But anyway, if anybody can build the super-duper teleportation device to download information to a photon in one spot and transmit that data via entangled link or something to an existence-sharing photon in another spot, it’s the Chinese Communist Party.
It does appear, China, that you have chosen this to be an area in which you want to excel globally. So get on it. Figure it out. Do it.
And if you have to divert all your resources from all the other things, from all the surveillance, censorship, torture camps, military harassment of Taiwan and other countries, etc., then do that too. And don’t stop until you have it. Until you have full-throttle quantum teleportation. Yes, that’s right. Teleportation.
