by Max Barry

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Region: Yggdrasil

Fact of the day: Quantium teleportation is the observed entanglement of two particles, although typically photons, by which if one action is taken upon one of the entangled, the opposite can be observed happening on the other. A simple example of this is if you imagine each particle or photon has a north and south poll based on the axis they spin, typically if you observe a photon it's state would collapse from a waveform to its particle form with it either being in an up state or down state (this is rather simplistic for what's going on and is the spark notes of it) and depending upon what you observe, its partner would have the opposite state. What this effectively means is that the information of particles can be transferred instantaneously and faster than light. No matter is transferred, only information.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quantum_teleportation

Interestingly, there is an experiment that used quantum teleportation to change the outcome of something that already happened.

https://youtu.be/8ORLN_KwAgs

This also allows unbreakable encryption methods that utilize two sets of entangled particles (again, namely photons since they are super easy to entangle) to create an access key that can be used to unlock access to encrypted files. How this is done, is that (let's say a bank is sending you information that you requested) sends you a packet of these entangled particles are sent to you and your computer reads them out and communicates this with the bank, if their set of the entangled particles reads out the same information, then your line of communication is secure, if it shows that the information states of the particles changed, it means that someone had intercepted your data and thus the line of communication is flagged as unsafe. (Although I'm not well versed on this topic so I recommend to take what I say with a mountain of salt.)

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quantum_cryptography

Mega FAAAACTS!!

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