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Austrian Physicists 'Teleport' Light Over 600m
openSoar writes "The BBC is reporting that: 'Physicists have carried out successful teleportation with particles of light over a distance of 600m across the River Danube in Austria. When physicists say 'teleportation', they are describing the transfer of key properties from one particle to another without a physical link.'"
Haven't we learned anything from Half-Life or Doom? Teleportaion can only lead to some race trying to enslave humans. Ya, science is soooooo great.
Well, my spacetime folding machine works better, light speed travel is SOOOOOO 80's.
Indeed, this isn't so much teleportation as rsync.
Rik
The idea of teleportation is a scary one...
Imagine waking up in the middle of the night to find the US/Halliburton Army using satellite teleportation to move machinery into your backyard in their global search for oil...
Teleportion will certainly have its pros and cons... and like all other technologies, its uses will be both beneficial and detrimental... think of its implications in drug trafiking... amongst other things...
Cloning! OMG they've cloned light. Hopefully the US Gov't won't make it illegal.
..........FULL STOP.
Could you use it like a universe folding origami machine? I think that the universe would be much better shaped like a swan than a saddle or a doughnut.
Rampant Ninja related crimes these days...Whitehouse is not the exception
> When physicists say 'teleportation', they are describing the transfer of key properties from one particle to another without a physical link.
So some morning when you wake up with a suddenly teeny weenie, you'll know you've been had by a physicist.
Sheesh, evil *and* a jerk. -- Jade