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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. oooh, not quite. by quest(answer)ion · · Score: 0, Redundant
    errors in TFA:

    Christensen, who gained infamy and complete pariah status playing Anakin Skywalker in Star Wars Episodes II and III there. fixed.
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    /. is what happens when geeks talk. get used to it.
  2. Fixed Summary by Red+Pointy+Tail · · Score: 0, Redundant

    Earlier this week actor Hayden Christensen, of Star Wars infamy, ... There. Fixed it for you.
  3. Yes it IS by zoomshorts · · Score: 0, Redundant

    IF you could do it, it would take a RECIEVER at the other end ready
    to reconstitute the component atoms , plus a supply of those atoms in a useable form. Y
    ou simply cannot 'beam' crap someplace and expect it to materialize, THAT would take
    megakilogazillion joules of energy and the ability to control that energy. BLOW ME !!!