Quantum Mechanics Helps Physicists Pull Energy Out of Thin Air as Evident in Two Separate Experiments

A shelved theory seems to have given new life to energy teleportation, a concept that pulls energy from one location to another. The notion might sound like science fiction, but some scientists demonstrated that it is possible to generate energy out of thin air.

According to The Space Academy, scientists were able to extract energy and filled a vacuum through two separate experiments. It has indeed opened a fresh world of quantum energy physics.

First Demonstration of Energy Teleportation

Quanta Magazine reports that two different physics experiments using quantum mechanics prove it is possible to conjure energy from an energy vacuum, essentially pulling energy out of thin air, by teleporting energy across microscopic distances. The experiments help bolster a 2008 theory from Japanese physicist Masahiro Hotta.

Quantum physicist Seth Lloyd from Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) who was not part of the studies said that the experiments truly puts the theory to the test as it shows how energy teleportation could be possible.

Hotta's idea was not well received when it was first presented more than a decade ago, Popular Mechanics reports. Taking energy from the quantum vacuum was not thought to be a feasible equation.

Yet, there was still some fluctuation in the quantum fields in every vacuum. More so, drawing energy from close into the vacuum and then using that energy was something known as the teleportation notion, which has since been produced twice by scientists from the University of Waterloo and Stony Brook University.

Hotta's study in 2008 led him to negative energy, which he thought was not an autonomous activity. He then investigated the quantum vacuum, which he claimed might truly vary inside quantum fields, allowing energy to travel between two regions based on computations.

Meanwhile, the Waterloo team discovered that, when energy was spent in one location, it permitted an energy vacuum to access energy.

Nayeli Rodriguez-Briones, who was part of one of the studies, said that it was quite cool to realize that using contemporary technology, proving that it is feasible to watch the activation of energy, as well as prove it is actual physics and not just science fiction.

New Revolution in Quantum Communication Technology

Discovery magazine explains that the fundamental concept underlying quantum energy teleportation is that the energy of every quantum system is continually shifting. These natural energy fluctuations can be used on a quantum level.

Hotta first pointed out that measuring a component of a quantum system necessarily introduces energy into the system. In the quantum realm, this energy may then be harvested from another portion of the system without the energy having to travel across space. There is no gain or loss of energy; it is just transferred.

Kazuki Ikeda at Stony Brook University in New York and one of the authors of the studies said that the experiments have profound implications. He emphasizes that the ability to transfer quantum energy over long distances will bring a new revolution in quantum communication technology.

He believes that there will come a day when energy and information will be traded over the quantum internet with traders choosing where to get it most economically. But of course, they recognize that there are more steps along the way before achieving this.

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