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Improvements in Teleportation
assaultriflesforfree writes "Here's a little update on quantum entanglement and teleportation from The New York Times (free registration, yay): 'Employing a facet of quantum mechanics that Albert Einstein called "spooky action at a distance," scientists have taken particles of light, destroyed them and then resurrected copies more than a mile away.' I am a little skeptical about the Heisenberg Uncertainty Principle statements, though. Is this really a form of Star Trek's Heisenberg Compensator?"
This is defnitely kind of cool, but I will be a great deal more impressed when it is achieved with an object with appreciable mass. This said, it does seem to show me the way to cut down my lag to that Counterstike server - all I need is a fibreoptic modem!
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Great weapon development here, I guess you could teleport bullets halfway around the world faster than the speed of light?.. ouch.
Hookers on demand....the porn/sex industry is going to be the first in line if they can ever get matter to teleport correctly...even if they don't i wouldn't mind having hooker with 3 breasts =]..
The potential application of this technology is boundless. Everything from communication to transportation, even society will be changed by the refinment and eventual mastery of this particular branch of quantum physics.
I'm sure 400 years from now people will be using spooky action at a distance to teleport to their flying cars so they can head out to stores to finally buy a shrinkwrapped copy of Duke Nukem Forever.
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I teleported home one night
With Ron and Sid and Meg.
Ron stole Meggie's heart away
And I got Sidney's leg.
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But why bother destroying the original. Let's get some cloning machines using this tech churning out thousands of copies of sexy chicks!
All those moments will be lost in time, like tears in rain.
perhaps a .mpr file
I'd certainly hope our computers will be rid of @#$% filename extensions before we have practical applications of teleportation. Although from the current state of it (with even Apple regressing into the Middle Ages of Metadata), chances are slim.
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To be honest, I wasn't aware there was any base in teleportation from which to improve.
Cheers,
Ian
Not necessarily, if you waited a few weeks, 'cause you kinda forgot you were doing this experiment, and checked up on one of the cats and it's dead, you could conclude that the other one is alive because that would have eaten the cat treat. Or one of the cats could have a heart attack 'cause some creeps keep putting it in a box.
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> If i am being teleported... teleportation would create
> copy of me and killed original.
OK Mr Hatchet, your duplicate ('you++' as we like to call
him in my line of work) is now at your destination being
Heisenburg compensated. Boy are --you lucky --you won't
have to go through *that* indignity!
Please stand perfectly still while I blow --you away with
this zap-o-matic ray gun of mine. No, No, it won't hurt
a bit. Well, actually, it hurts --you a hell of a lot - but
since you++ are now at your destination, you++ won't remember
a thing about it.
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Hey, great! We no longer have to suffer with CAM releases!
We can transport the light particles of the movie screen and reassemble a copy of them for our enjoyment elsewhere.
Now that's progress! Who needs P2P! I see the light!
I can just imagine all the boffins pacing around the lab trying to decide who will be the first to test the new mass trasporter.
One of them is wearing a red sweater...
Unfortunately, I am not Wil Wheaton
For goodness sake, read the article.
Ooooh, I thought the idea was that one person read the article and we all asked him questions :-)
To all intents and purposes...
I can't say I'm reassured that it would be me rather than a copy of me who stepped out of the teleporter, although the question is probably closer to theology than physics...
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Now I just have to sit and wait for them to come out with a comercial version of a tele-magic 9000. I could find about a thousand uses for the thing. Running marathons in under a nanosecond, teleport myself straight into a MGM Grand vault, go to Jamaica for lunch...I'm getting dizzy, better stop.
"Make me some if you're making some"
A whole new definition of the term vaporware?
The only things known to go faster than ordinary light is monarchy, according to the philosopher Ly Tin Weedle. He reasoned like this: you can't have more than one king, and tradition demands that there is no gap between kings, so when a king dies the succession must therefore pass to the heir instantaneously. Presumably, he said, there must be some elementary particles -- kingons, or possibly queons -- that do this job, but of course succession sometimes fails if, in mid-flight, they strike an anti-particle, or republicon. His ambitious plans to use his discovery to send messages, involving the careful torturing of a small king in order to modulate the signal, were never fully expanded because, at that point, the bar closed.
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Does it bother anyone else that the wavelength quoted in the National Geographic article is a few orders of magnitude too large?
You'd think a science writer would puzzle over a photon with a wavelength of 0.05 inches being able to travel in a glass fiber instead of a microwave waveguide.
Probably some editor confused microns with millimeters and then converted to inches, because we all know that inches are a more familiar unit to use when talking about light wavelengths.
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> Schrodenger's cat is NOT either alive or dead,it's BOTH until we observe it.
Our cat is also both, until you poke it with your foot or open a can of tuna fish within 100 yards of it. Then, unfortunately, it proves to be just alive.
Heisenberg is driving along, and a cop pulls him over. The cop asks "Do you know how fast you were going?" And Heisenberg says "No... But I know where I am!" Badum-ching!