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posted by on Thursday May 18 2017, @11:53AM   Printer-friendly
from the band-name-of-the-week dept.

Futurism reports:

For the first time in the history of quantum mechanics, scientists have been able to transmit a black and white image without having to send any physical particles. The phenomenon can be explained using the Zeno effect, the same effect that explains that movement itself is impossible.

The journal article is in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America (DOI: 10.1073/pnas.1614560114)

Wikipedia has an article about the quantum Zeno effect.

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  • (Score: 2) by bob_super on Thursday May 18 2017, @07:21PM (1 child)

    by bob_super (1357) on Thursday May 18 2017, @07:21PM (#511794)

    If I can observe the position of the picture, it will be moving? I've always wondered about that when watching Harry Potter...

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  • (Score: 2) by FatPhil on Friday May 19 2017, @03:04PM

    by FatPhil (863) <pc-soylentNO@SPAMasdf.fi> on Friday May 19 2017, @03:04PM (#512208) Homepage
    I was thinking of a perfectly in focus crisp clear photo of Usain Bolt on the starting blocks, and thus winning the race.
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