China launched the satellite "Guess" to explore the Teleportation

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BEIJING: China today launched the first global satellite telecommunications quantum, the "Quess", with which scientists want to explore a phenomenon that until recently seemed reserved for science fiction films: teleportation.

The Quess, stands for "Experiments with many A Space Scale" left to 01.40 am today (17.40 GMT Monday) from the space launch center in Jiuquan in the Gobi Desert (Northwest China) , reported EFE.

The aim of this satellite is to experiment with quantum communication which in practice could have two main uses: a transmission system faster than current and impossible to intercept data, and said Teleportation.

This latest research is based on the concept of "quantum entangled", in which two photons linked together reproduce their quantum changes-for example, if one is turned the other too- even if they are long distance (theoretically, even at two ends opposite of the universe).

The Chinese scientific team developing these experiments, led by quantum physicist Pan Jianwei and space engineer Wang Jianyu, gotta check this on land, at distances of 100 kilometers, but through Quess attempt to demonstrate this possibility at greater distances, greater than 1000 kilometers.

"Teleportation looks like magic, but it can become as simple and common as television in the future," said engineer Wang told today cites the South China Morning Post.

Check the possibilities of teleportation will not be easy, and for that the satellite control centers thereof, in Beijing, Xinjiang (northwest) and Tibet (southwest), shall transmit photons with a watchmaker's precision.

Quess drivers will have to show your best aim to send photons from the apparatus, which orbits 500 kilometers high, a telescope on Earth with just one meter area.

Same difficulty you will have the reverse process, in which the satellite will intercept photons sent from the Earth's surface as it orbits at a speed of between 7,000 and 8,000 kilometers per hour.

The study of teleportation is attractive but equally or more important for Chinese scientists is that the new mission will contribute to the development of quantum communication based on photons that would be impossible to intercept spies or hackers, unlike conventional, based on electrons.

This secure communication could have military uses, so the Chinese Army tried to monopolize the development of this space mission, although Wang and Pan insisted to give a more scientific and civil to the project profile, as was told in a recent interview to the scientific publication " Nature ".

"The satellite will look for a different universe of Einstein, (...) in which information can teleport from one galaxy to another faster than the speed of light, where internet can not be hacked and where a calculator can be more faster than the fastest supercomputer in the world ", today said the Chinese press.