In a quote from an online article on a paper recently published in Nature the claim is that: “In simple terms, this means the properties of one photon were transferred to another through quantum teleportation.”
Unfortunately quantum teleportation is a fantasy suitable only for a Star Trek movie. A fantasy that still haunts the halls of University physics departments the world over ever since Albert invented his imaginary photon in 1905. A photon invented so as to legitimise false assumptions he made about space and time in his subsequent papers on SR and GR.
Because what actually happens in this experiment and thousands like this is far simpler and no Quantum magic is necessary if one analyses an earlier version of this type of entanglement/teleportation experiment.
First of all, ignore QT. Quantum theorists pretend these type of experimental results cannot be explained by a classical non relativistic, non quantum model. They have made the same erroneous assumptions for decades in experiments like the double slit interference experiment through to the delayed choice quantum eraser experiments which this latest highly complex 2026 experiment seems to be based upon. But this is an erroneous assumption perpetuated for decades in ever more elaborate versions of what initially was a fairly basic experimental setup. Because once one can understand what is happening classically in the delayed choice quantum experiment one doesn’t need quantum magic teleportation to explain the the results of the delayed choice experiment or even for a more complex setup of relays of quantum dots as done in this recent 2026 experiment. Unfortunately it also means that the great future of quantum computers has not been confirmed by this “key step for future quantum communication networks” as the article and paper pretend it has. In fact they have spent/wasted a lot of money and time proving that if if one splits a source beam into two separate orthogonally polarised beams, and measures one of the two split beams polarised states. Then the other will always be orthogonally polarised. Regardless of how far away one measures it after it has left the beam splitter.
Analysis
In the cited experiment ‘Quantum teleportation with dissimilar quantum dots over a hybrid quantum network. Alessandro Laneve et al. 2026’ the photon, or it’s state was apparently magically transported 270 meters using relays of quantum dots. This ignores the fact that Classically the very basics of quantum teleportation can be explained even when the 2026 experiment manages to apparently transmit one or both paths down a path of 270 meters using a relay system of quantum dots etc. All they really did was what the original delayed choice experiment did which was read the polarisation state at one detector to find out the state at the other detector.
Classically then, if the polarisation state is measured at one of the detectors then the state at the other 270 meters distant detector must always be opposite. That is if one was measured to be horizontal. The other must be vertical. The fantasy in this paper and any other quantum entanglement teleportation style experiment is that measuring one state magically decides the other!
The reality is that measuring one tells you the other must be opposite. And that these two opposite states were already decided when the original light source was split. As can be seen in the original delayed choice experiment that this latest 2026 experiment seems to be predicated upon.
In the original delayed choice setup the light source is split into two orthogonal polarised coherent beams. Each beam being sent to a seperate detector to be measured as either vertical or horizontal polarised. Classically, the “choice” is made by the BBO detector when it splits the beam from source into two orthoganally polarised coherent beams.
Conclusions
The quantum fantasists pretend that this splitting made at the beam splitter ( in the original experiment this is made by the barium borate crystal) was actually magically decided later (!) at one of the detectors. The fantasy being that if one detector was measured to be horizontal polarised the other was magically created to be vertically polarised.
When will these quantum theorists stop practicing pseudoscience and magic? Probably when they realise in another few years that their silly quantum computers just never seem to work.!!
