Energy can’t be created out of thin air, but physicists have found a workaround: extracting energy from seemingly empty space, teleporting it elsewhere, and storing it for later use. The researchers successfully tested this protocol using a quantum computer.
According to the laws of quantum physics, completely empty space cannot exist. Even in places where there are no atoms at all, tiny flickers of quantum fields remain. In 2008, Masahiro Hotta of Tohoku University in Japan proposed that those flickers…