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?"

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heineken uncertainty principle

[Anonymous Coward]

you can never be sure how much you had to drink.
Great weapon development here, I guess you could teleport bullets halfway around the world faster than the speed of light?.. ouch.

0.0 latency gaming anyone?

[ageOfWWIV]

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.

poem

[mlush]

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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"Improvements" in Teleportation...?

[mccalli]

Salesman: "It's state of the art!"
Customer: "But it doesn't work."
Salesman: "That is the state of the art..."

To be honest, I wasn't aware there was any base in teleportation from which to improve.

Cheers,
Ian

Re:don't beam ME up.

[sbaker]

> 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.

Vaporware? ;o)

[Seahawk]

A whole new definition of the term vaporware?

Old Bumper Sticker

[eric2hill]

"Very funny, Scotty. Now beam down my clothes."

Worst physics joke ever.

[fonetik]

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!