Teleportation - hope this doesn't replace airplanes.

[Paul Anderson]

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-2186667/Researchers-use-teleportation-beam-single-photon-97km.html

[Lionheart]

Awesome.....

Awesome awesome...



Imagine teleporting to other places, worlds, galaxies....


Communication.. I didnt think of that. Sending batches of data instantaneously. I had wondered of a 'internet' that would be in our solar system years from now, so we could get online with friends at a colony on Mars, or in a research fleet near Jupiter and chat with them. Presently it takes 45 min's to reach or communicate to Jupiter (if I am correct) and I forget the distance time to Mars for com travel. Imagine being able to contact a manned probe mission in another solar system almost instantly, like an internet link......

How amazing would that be.

Perhaps even in halographic detail?



What was that, they were talking about in MassEffect3, the dual particle location communication system. The immense cost of creating two sub atomic particles that exist in two location of one universe but are the same particle, if that makes sense. One of Einsteins neat theories...




Bill

[Dain Arns]

I used to think 'transporting' would be great when I was younger. Beam anywhere.

But now that I've gotten older, the implications associated with having your body disassembled, your atoms scattered, and then hopefully have your body re-assembled in the proper order.
What about your soul?
I don't think I'd trust any computer hardware or software to get it right, yet.

I'm starting to side with the Doctor more and more on this one.

70635:icon_lol:

[Naismith]

Awesome.....
One of Einsteins neat theories...

Bill
Not Einstein but an American, Dr. Alan Guth. Do I get a brownie?

[cheezyflier]

Not Einstein but an American, Dr. Alan Guth. Do I get a brownie?

yes, a two-bite brownie, but the name brand kind, not the cheapie store brand.

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as for it replacing airplanes? i sure hope so. airplanes are overly expensive, slow, and the tsa is frickin ridiculous. i wonder what would happen to prices and service if the airline industry got some serious competition?

[n4gix]

The only truly intelligent and cogent comment made thus far is this one, with which I fully concur:


Another DM science fail. This article makes a number of basic errors which betray total ignorance of the subject. For instance, 'quantum teleportation' has nothing at all to do with teleportation in the usual sense but is a specialist term from quantum information theory. And nothing at all was 'teleported' in this experiment - a type of quantum information is all that bridged the gap. Sensationalising highly technical papers like this does nobody any good, and certainly does science a disservice.

Moreover, consider this point. Until the "local photon" is examined, nothing about it is known. The same holds true of the "remote photon." So, given these constraints, how does one detect whether the "remote photon" has actually changed state?

As soon as the "remote photon's" state is observed (we need to detect a change, remember?), that photon's state instantly changes again! :pop4:

[Odie]

I used to think 'transporting' would be great when I was younger. Beam anywhere.

But now that I've gotten older, the implications associated with having your body disassembled, your atoms scattered, and then hopefully have your body re-assembled in the proper order.
What about your soul?
I don't think I'd trust any computer hardware or software to get it right, yet.

I'm starting to side with the Doctor more and more on this one.

70635:icon_lol:

I'm with Bones on this one......if any of the equipment proved to be unreliable in Starfleet, it had to be the teleports! One good "thud" at a critical moment and you were either stranded on the surface of some planet, deck of an imploding ship, or stuck between two destinations....

[stansdds]

Teleportation as a means of communication? Sure! Teleportation as a means of travel? Two words... The Fly.

70711

[PRB]

The only truly intelligent and cogent comment made thus far is this one, with which I fully concur:


Another DM science fail. This article makes a number of basic errors which betray total ignorance of the subject. For instance, 'quantum teleportation' has nothing at all to do with teleportation in the usual sense but is a specialist term from quantum information theory. And nothing at all was 'teleported' in this experiment - a type of quantum information is all that bridged the gap. Sensationalising highly technical papers like this does nobody any good, and certainly does science a disservice.
Moreover, consider this point. Until the "local photon" is examined, nothing about it is known. The same holds true of the "remote photon." So, given these constraints, how does one detect whether the "remote photon" has actually changed state?
As soon as the "remote photon's" state is observed (we need to detect a change, remember?), that photon's state instantly changes again! :pop4:

Agree. :salute:

[Willy]

I used to think 'transporting' would be great when I was younger. Beam anywhere.

But now that I've gotten older, the implications associated with having your body disassembled, your atoms scattered, and then hopefully have your body re-assembled in the proper order.
What about your soul?
I don't think I'd trust any computer hardware or software to get it right, yet.

I'm starting to side with the Doctor more and more on this one.

70635:icon_lol:

Nope, not for me. I want to keep my moleclules and atoms right where they're at.

[Naismith]

Remember Jeff Goldblum in "The Fly"
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F7xoyu08xNE