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Teleportation Gets a Boost
saavyone writes to tell us Yahoo! News is reporting that while teleportation may not quite be a reality yet a team of Danish scientists have raised the bar on this line of research. From the article: "The experiment involved for the first time a macroscopic atomic object containing thousands of billions of atoms. They also teleported the information a distance of half a meter but believe it can be extended further. 'Teleportation between two single atoms had been done two years ago by two teams but this was done at a distance of a fraction of a millimeter,' Polzik, of the Danish National Research Foundation Center for Quantum Optics, explained. 'Our method allows teleportation to be taken over longer distances because it involves light as the carrier of entanglement,' he added."
now beam down my clothes!!!!!!!
Anyone have a link to this teleportation video?
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Apparently these scientists have never watched TRON, or they'd quit why they're ahead. Or, perhaps they know the risks and have brushed up on their 80's era arcade gaming skills.
Dan East
Better known as 318230.
I could use it to teleport all the dust bunnies hiding behind computers to a passing Klingon ship.
I'll try, one sec
thousands of billions of atoms
Trillions, even?
Developers: We can use your help.
...that nerds will stop at NOTHING to prove Star Trek is real. First, transparent aluminum, now this.
blah blah blah
Isn't that, like, an oxymoron or something?
I think Douglas Adams said it best:
I teleported home one night
With Ron and Sid and Meg;
Ron stole Meggie's heart away
And I got Sidney's leg.
Insisting on "correct" English is like saying that there is only one, definitive recipe for chili.
1. Send DNA sequence for human/animal/etc from Star 1 to Star 2.
2. Use DNA sequence to grow said creature.
3. Install memory sequences, also sent as information.
4. Wake person up.
5. Keep original as slave in vast human slave army used to conquer the galaxy.
6. PROFIT!
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It's really quite simple. The system involves two opaque boxes (A and B), both with closable lids,.
One operator places the item to be teleported in box A and closes the lid. The operator of box B then opens the box and observes the contents. By doing so, the item appears in box B.
This works because of the way particle physics works. Any object may be in multiple places until it is actually observed. By hiding the item from one operator, the location of the item becomes unknown, and therefore the other operator is able to transport it to them merely by observing one of the locations it may have travelled to.
Really, this is elementary physics and it's surprising how rarely we take advantage of it. I actually go to work every morning by going to the bathroom, alone, closing the door, and then phoning a collegue at work, asking him to open the cubicle door at the bathroom there. By keeping my eyes closed at the precise moment he opens the door, I am able to ensure my own location is unobserved, and therefore that my precise whereabouts are unknown until my collegue opens the door and observes me. It's very useful and saves a lot of gas, but has the disadvantage that you have to rely upon there being someone whereever you want to travel to that you can contact who can observe the contents of a previously unobservable man-sized space. Also there's the danger that two people might do the same thing at once, in which case there's the danger of a time/space paradox being created.
You are not alone. This is not normal. None of this is normal.
Very well, thank you.
Translating...
Its not a:
$ mv source target
Its a:
$ cp source target
Oh Gosh, now I fully know quantum computing!
ilex paraguariensis for all
With Heisenberg compensators?
"I would say that 99 per cent of what my father has written about his own life is false." - L. Ron Hubbard Jr.
Oh yeah, yer like being all smug and shit about it now, but just you wait until the day comes when he opens the door and observes you dead.
KFG
The least they could do is make a corny teleportation pun, like, "In a sudden jump forward..." or something. Such a waste.
Now you're just making stuff up!
And if two physicists were to accidentally emerge in the same stall, they'd be a pair o' docs?
Great men are almost always bad men--Lord Acton's Corollary
ACTUALLY it is like this:
# mv source target
everyone knows you have to be root to teleport SHEESH.
copy con teleport.bat /Y a b > NULL
@echo off
cls
echo.
echo Now teleporting...
move
REM sleep 30s (OMG! It's taking long this time! IT'S WOKRING!!!):
PING -n 31 127.0.0.1>nul
echo.
echo Done!
^Z
Uncopyrightable: The longest word you can write without repeating a letter.
Umm, Windows has a sleep command
Just because it CAN be done, doesn't mean it should!
Actually, it's sudo make me a sandwich.
Please, for the good of Humanity, vote Obama.
Actually, I think it's more like:
1 10101001001010011111001010100101010100101010100101 01110100101010010101010011
10101011010110100101011100011110000000000110101