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)
If I can observe the position of the picture, it will be moving? I've always wondered about that when watching Harry Potter...
(Score: 2) by FatPhil on Friday May 19 2017, @03:04PM
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