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Teleportation — Fact and Fiction

Posted by ryuzaki0 on from the there-and-back-again dept.

jcatcw writes "Earlier this week actor Hayden Christensen, of Star Wars fame, and director Doug Liman discussed teleportation with MIT professors to compare the reality to the special effects version in the upcoming movie, Jumper. Edward Farhi, director of the Center for Theoretical Physics at MIT, said, 'It's a little less exotic than what you see in the movie. Teleportation has been done, moving a single proton over two miles. [But] teleporting a person? That is pretty far down the line. The quantum state of a living creature is pretty formidable. That is just not in the foreseeable future.'"

5 of 348 comments (clear)

  1. Re:Shock by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Funny

    I think you mean space.

  2. Heisenberg Compensators! Duh! by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 4, Funny

    Obviously this guy didn't read enough Star Trek technical manuals.

  3. You have got to be kidding me by handelaar · · Score: 5, Funny

    "Next week, we'll be discussing the differences between general and special relativity with Big Bird from Sesame Street."

    1. Re:You have got to be kidding me by Malevolent+Tester · · Score: 5, Funny

      Today, we'll be looking at the letter c

      --
      If you haven't made a developer cry, you've wasted a day.
  4. The old poem by Chairboy · · Score: 5, Funny

    "I teleported home one night
    with Ron & Sid & Meg
    Ron stole Megan's heart away
    and I got Sydney's leg."

    - Restaurant at the End of the Universe