Talk:teleportation

not a novel

"Lo" by Charles Fort is by no means a novel. It is by all accounts a sincere if completely and utterly insane attempt at nonfiction. 24.47.154.230 04:01, 29 May 2009 (UTC)

Right. Thanks. DCDuring TALK 17:05, 9 June 2009 (UTC)

"Any of multiple hypothetical or fictional processes"

But quantum teleportation isn't fictional or hypothetical, it has been demonstrated as real in scientific experiments. And I don't think "fictional or hypothetical" are properly part of the definition. Suppose in a few decades or centuries time, someone develops a real teleportation machine, like they have in science fiction. If that happened, you'd have to strike "fictional or hypothetical" from the definition. But would the definition of the word itself have changed? "Teleportation" would still mean the same thing; it would just have gone from fictional/hypothetical to real. So "fictional or hypothetical" isn't part of the definition, it is just a fact which happens to be true at the moment regarding what the definition refers to, but may or may not be true in the future, and thus is not actually part of the definition itself. And "quantum teleportation" is evidence that it isn't even part of the definition today. 60.225.114.230 11:08, 28 May 2012 (UTC)

• I have adjusted our definition. (deprecated template usage) quantum teleportation does not, of course, move (deprecated template usage) matter, only quantum (deprecated template usage) states. SemperBlotto (talk) 11:13, 28 May 2012 (UTC)