• FourPacketsOfPeanuts@lemmy.worldEnglish
    721·
    3 days ago

    Specifically, scientists have worked out how to teleport information almost instantly and over any distance – without needing any future technology

    Either this is a world changing discovery that breaks everything that I’m hearing about only in… checks… the BBC Science Magazine

    Or… it’s complete wank clickbait nonsense

    OH WHICH IS IT GOING TO BE?!

    • Limonene@lemmy.worldEnglish
      791·
      3 days ago

      TLDR: They sent information through a fiber-optic cable using fewer photons per bit than before.

      They only transmitted information, not any non-photon particles. They didn’t exceed the speed of light, or exceed the speed of light through fiber-optic cable.

    • ilmagico@lemmy.worldEnglish
      321·
      3 days ago

      The second one, of course:

      the new research proposes that the breakthrough could make these communications super secure and nearly instantaneous – limited only by the speed of light.

      (enphasis mine)

      So, yeah, we didn’t break any laws of physics.