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How many times have you been stuck in traffic or an airport and wished you had a Scottish friend who could beam you anywhere in the world? One recent scientific discovery proves that we're on the way to making this 'Star Trek' invention into reality, one particle at a time.
Using a theory called quantum entanglement, European scientists successfully teleported a block of data between telescopes 90 miles apart. The theory relies on the idea that two photons can be created to act identically to each other, no matter how far they apart. A third photon is teleported from the transmitter, acting upon the first in a way that will be duplicated by the second. Yes, it's complicated enough that even Albert Einstein referred to it as "spooky action at a distance."
The letdown of this experiment is that it's still nowhere near able to transport anything but the simplest forms of matter. It will more likely be used for communication rather than beaming anybody anywhere. Then again, who would've thought the
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Subscribe to commentsDougMay 21st 2008 4:18PM
What you fail to mention here is that the way the "teleportation" works is that all the properties of the object are copied to the target and in the process the original object is destroyed. It raises some interesting philosophical questions. Would you allow yourself to be teleported if it meant you died, but an exact copy of you lived on? Is that copy really you?
dr mitchel w eisenstein,May 27th 2008 12:48PM
the idea that this could only be used to send information is greatly diminishing the significance of that feat. in fact the transporting of information instantly is infinitely more important than the transmission of matter itself. given enought information, matter itself can be reorganized to for configurations identical to the original. as in some models of teleportation, the original source of the entity is destroyed just as the duplicate is created at a distant location. but even without creating clones of people, we could lets just say, instantly control rovers on mars without having to create autonamous software that cannot easily react.
RICK BADMANMay 26th 2008 4:33PM
A transporter could be considered a molecular transmission system. When the molecules are accelerated to near the speed of light, they become energy and can be transmitted. Supposedly it has been done with solid objects and at least two men. There is no need to worry about mutations like in the movie THE FLY. Teleportation is spatial too so that if a fly were a meter from a person's head on one end, it will be a meter from his head at the other end. A blanket field may allow the teleportation process to happen. Supposedly the Philadelphia Expreriment was a teleportation experiment during WW II that may or may have worked.