On the trip back from Baltimore this weekend, Jason and I began to talk about interesting subjects, including quantum entanglement. I introduced the idea to Jason, and he was very interested in it. I decided to read up on Quantum entanglement and I stumbled upon a nice article about Quantum teleportation, which said:
That the term teleportation reminds of the beaming process in the Star Trek TV series might have been intentional. After all, the physicists coining the term might have thought, it is as if the particle would be brought there. But this analogue is prone to miss the point: Only the information about the quantum state is brought there, the particle to take up the state must already be present.
