Physicists Use Quantum Mechanics to Pull Energy out of Nothing

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Physicists Use Quantum Mechanics to Pull Energy out of Nothing

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The quantum energy teleportation protocol was proposed in 2008 and largely ignored. Now two independent experiments have shown that it works. Read more at QuantaMagazine.org. Music is “Pulse” by Geographer.

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