ABSTRACT
The stories about teleportation did sound to me like a horrible
monster that was growing while walking through the cities.
Everyone who knew that Walter and I were opposed to the idea
of instantaneous influences at a distance told us that quantum
teleportation was now proven and that it demonstrated clearly the
existence of influences at a distance. My usual response was that
quantum theory had some very great successes with predicting the
precise energies of electrons in atoms. The experiments relating to
quantum information such as the EPRB-type experiments and the
so-called teleportation did not agreewith quantum theorywith such
precision but only approximately. Furthermore, asmentioned, I soon
convinced myself that the idea of quantum teleportation assumes
that Bell is correct and influences at a distance do exist.We thus have
another logical circle. Quantum teleportation is only then something
remarkable if influences at a distance are assumed to exist on the
basis of Bell’s work to start with. Experiments are explained using
this assumption and then, because of a very approximate agreement
of the experiments with the quantum predictions, it is claimed that
teleportation has been proven. Here are the actual facts startingwith
the concept of a quantum computer.
