Have any experiments ever been done on teleportation?

Question

if so, what were they and what were the findings?

Answer 1

From what I know, MIT did an experiment with Cal Tech a few years ago in relation with teleportation. MIT set up a statue in their lab and had lasers trace the object and then transmitted the information to Cal Tech where they had a laser cut out a duplicate figure that was a MIT. They all agreed that it was not actually teleportation but it was in the right direction and I have not heard of anything since.

Answer 2

Atom Experiment Brings Teleportation a Step Closer
By Reuters

posted: 04:00 pm ET
26 September 2001

LONDON (Reuters) - Physicists in Denmark have made two samples of trillions of atoms interact at a distance in an experiment which may bring Star Trek-style teleportation and rapid quantum computing closer to reality.

Eugene Polzik and his colleagues at the University of Aarhus are not about to beam anyone up to the Starship Enterprise, but their research reported in the science journal Nature on Wednesday makes the idea of instantly transporting an object from one place to another less far fetched.

It involves quantum entanglement -- a mysterious concept of entwining two or more particles without physical contact. Albert Einstein once described it as ``spooky action at a distance.''

Entangled states are needed for quantum computing and teleportation. Scientists have entangled states of a few atoms in earlier experiments but Polzik and his team have done it with very large numbers and using laser light.

``It is the first result where two macroscopic material objects have been entangled,'' Polzik explained in a telephone interview.

``We have produced entanglement at a distance which means you and me can share entangled objects which is important for quantum communication, including quantum teleportation.''

In 1998 what has been described as the first teleportation experiment was done when scientists at the California Institute of Technology teleported a beam of light across a laboratory bench.

Ignacio Cirac, a physicist at the University of Innsbruck in Austria said achievement of Polzik and his team could lead to real-life quantum communication systems, teleportation and quantum computers.

``This is the first time two different atomic samples have been entangled in this way -- using light -- even though the samples are separated by some distance,'' he said in a commentary in Nature.

Cirac believes further experiments will follow which could ''revolutionize the field of quantum information.''

Answer 3

Tests were (supposedly) performed for the Navy by Einstein and Tesla. Off hand I don't remember the name of the experiment. The Philadelphia Experiment or something like that. There is a book out about that and a documentary too. They tried to transport a Navy ship using magnatism. It disappeared and when it came back , sailors were imbedded half in and half out of the ships walls and other weird stuff.

Answer 4

FYI, the quantum thing is trying to transmit info rather than material objects, in order to construct an exact duplicate of an object on the other end. There's no way to flash objects across space at warp speed, or convert matter to energy and back again.

Outer Limits had a good show once, where after your duplicate was built on the other end, the "equation had to be balanced". Not good for the original version.

Answer 5

I suppose if they have been done, they are kept secret, like at Area 51.

Answer 6

we don't have the technology yet...but then doesn't heisenberg's equation of uncertainty makes it impossible...i think people will be able to find a way around that...

Answer 7

yes, since the beginning of time...its called astral projection.

Answer 8

actually yes loads of them wanna see more how they work etc
go to http://science.howstuffworks.com/teleportation.htm