https://hackerpaper.kaipfister.de/p/quant-ph_0304158/Collected HN comments and submissions linking this paper.enMon, 02 Nov 2026 11:16:22 GMThttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8691893urn:hackerpapers:mention:quant-ph_0304158:8691893Wed, 03 Dec 2014 04:20:27 GMT<p>Asher Peres, one of the coinventors of teleportation, had an amusing story (with a serious subtext) about the question of what is teleported: &quot;Later, when a newsman asked me whether it was possible to teleport not only the body but also the soul, I answered “only the soul.” Even that is a gross oversimplification.&quot; http://arxiv.org/pdf/quant-ph/0304158.pdf In teleportation experiments to date only some degrees of freedom are teleported. So it doesn&#x27;t usually make a whole lot of sense to say &quot;the atom&quot; was teleported. Rather, it&#x27;ll just be the quantum state associated to nuclear spin states…</p><p><a href="https://hackerpaper.kaipfister.de/p/quant-ph_0304158/">Paper and discussion history</a>. A mention is not an endorsement.</p>quant-ph