Atom Experiment Brings Teleportation a Step Closer

Yahoo/Reuters ^ | 9/26/2001 | Reuters

[6ppc]

Let's beam Bin Laden into the center of Central Park!

[6ppc]

Self serving bump...how about beaming a herd of pigs into his bunker?

[plain talk]

How about beaming Osama into a herd of pigs so they can then run off and drown themselves?

[freefly]

.

[Wm Bach]

How about beaming Osama into a herd of pigs so they can then run off and drown themselves?

How about teleporting him "The Fly" style, except using a pig? Then he'll be this pig mullah running around freaking out, beady little eyes all crazed, pulling madly at his snout poking out from beneath his turban with little hoofy fingers.

[Salgak]

(In my best "Scotty" voice. . .)

Capten, Aye kenna beam bin Laden: there be some things even ELECTRONICS willna touch. . . . .

[DeSoto]

ROFLMAO!!!

[boris]

Next they'll try it on a cat.

(Gratuitous Schroedinger reference)

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See, I gotta problem with talk of "teleportation:"

1. Suppose you convert the person himself into energy and transmit him someplace; once the energy is there, you extract the information ("this carbon atom goes here; this sodium atom goes there...) and convert the energy somehow into the subject. The sheer quantity of energy could destroy the Earth very easily...

2. If you just record the position and identity of every atom and then transmit the information...the box on the other end has a big vat of atoms and selects the right ones... Oops, you now have a duplicate. I guess we gotta murder the original (back at home base). How do you think the original would feel? "Hey, don't get your panties in a wad; they assure us you arrived safe and secure on Pluto. Now hold still--quit struggling like that, it really is quite unseemly and makes it difficult to insert this needle..."

3. Such schemes (as I describe at least) are limited to light-speed, so teleporting to AlphaCentauri will take 4.3 years.

4. There probably has to be an immense amount of equipment at the far end, meaning somebody had to get there the hard way first to set it all up, collect all the atoms, etc.

There are numerous other objections; see Larry Niven for details.

--Boris

[Eala]

Right out of the SF story "Think like a dinosaur."

[boris]

" In 1998 what has been described as the first teleportation experiment was done when scientists at the California Institute of Technology teleported a beam of light across a laboratory bench."

Reminds me of dialogue from The Black Adder. "So what you are saying is, you teleported a beam of light?"

"Yes."

"In other words, you switched on a flashlight over here, and pointed the beam over there?"

"Yes."

"Oh, God!"

--Boris

[boris]

Think Like A Dinosaur

Never read it. By James Patrick Kelly, right?

Gimme a synopsis.

--Boris

[kAcknor]

How about teleporting him "The Fly" style, except using a pig?

kAcknor Sez:

Hmmm.....

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[LJLucido]

Will we get to take clothes and/or carry-on luggage with us when we are teleported, or do you end up naked at your destination?

[Wm Bach]

Ha! Good one!

[Landru]

re#10; BWWWWAHAAAAAAAA!

Oh, God.

[irish guard]

I have been reading a bit about quantum physics lately and know there are sime very unusual things going on out there. One in particular in the U.S., where some guys tried some funky stuff and one person is simply gone....anoyone else read about this? I couldn't decide if it was real or hooey, but I now these are very interesting times in qp.

[staytrue]

Oops, you now have a duplicate. I guess we gotta murder the original (back at home base). How do you think the original would feel?

Have you been watching the new "Outer Limits"? There was a show on this very subject. Aliens gave us teleportation technology and people from earth were sent to the other world, but the original had to be killed. It was a very good show.

[Tex-Con-Man]

``We have produced entanglement at a distance which means you and me can share entangled objects which is important...

I said that very thing when I was in a chat room just yesterday...wow...weird.

[Jolly Rodgers]

It involves quantum entanglement -- a mysterious concept of entwining two or more particles without physical contact. Albert Einstein once described it as ``spooky action at a distance.''

Sounds like cyber-sex.