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“Now teleporting #362579.”
That was the call from the quantum teleportation booth. This project took many leaps and bounds beyond the current science of quantum teleportation, in which information rather than matter is transmitted across great distances via mysterious connections between entangled particles. That reality didn’t stop artist Chad Stayrook from offering to entangle all the atoms in a volunteer’s body with a collection of atoms in another locale. “So you can go wherever you want in the universe, while also remaining right here at the science fair in Queens,” said Stayrook to a reluctant participant.
To pull off the effect, he posed his subjects in front of a green screen, then added the image of their bodies to a video showing, for example, a trek through a lunar landscape.
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