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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.'"

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  1. Where's Wesley Crusher to help them out? by MagikSlinger · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    He'd make it from his old science projects and make it work better than the Enterprise's transporters! :-P

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    1. Re:Where's Wesley Crusher to help them out? by ScrewMaster · · Score: 0, Offtopic

      Yeah, but it would take over the Enterprise's main computer and force Data to reset himself, with a chastened Wesley ending up being chewed out by Georgi after it's all over, having overlooked the fact that he had accidentally bypassed the matter-antimatter intermix safety protocols and almost blown up the ship.

      Wesley Crusher was one of the most annoying and dangerously brilliant Star Trek characters ever. I was soooo glad when he bombed out of Starfleet Academy and went away with the Traveller and we never had to see him again.

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  2. Re:Fixed that for you. by ScrewMaster · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    Yeah, I pretty much lost any vestigial respect I had for George Lucas when I found out he cast Christensen as Annakin Skywalker. Not that that has anything to do with teleportation, other than I can think of a few places I'd like to beam Lucas to.

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  3. c(o3k by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    so that you 3on't DOG THAT IT IS. IT