Scientists Transfer Info Between Atoms (Star Trek Teleportation is REAL!)

Local 6 News ^ | 6-16-2004 | AP

[Doctor Stochastic]

The "fidelity value" of the transport, according to the article, is about 75% with entanglement but 66% without entanglement. Thus you would be only 25% fly with the new setup.

[RightWhale]

some inexplicable communion with one another that operates outside our current conception of the physical universe.

This theory would be the Inexplicable Communion Theory. Careers are changing as we speak.

[Chuzzlewit]

Damn, you beat me to it...

1st LP " waiting for the electrician or someone like him"..

my favorite is "Dont crush that dwarf, hand me the pliers"..

these guys are probably all lefties, like everyone else out here.

[techcor]

"Waiting for the electrician or someone like him". Wow. I can't believe anyone got that one. And that quick. Congrats. I've watched Tripping the Rift a couple of times and you know I think Chode's voice should have been Jason Alexander's (like Duckman).

[jennyp]

[Techcor:] "How can you be in two places at once when you're not anywhere at all". Line from a comedy sketch. Bet no one knows which one.

[Chode:] Is it from "waiting for the electrician or someone like him" or is it from "we're all bozo's on this bus???"

I don't recall, but we should ask Nick Danger, Third Eye!

[Monty22]

Brian Greene's The Fabric of the Cosmos, that I'm reading now, covers this well. Good book!

[cripplecreek]

Star trek teleportation is quite a stretch. From everything I've read it would require computing power that may very well be out of reach forever.

It would require computing power that could know where ever atom in a body is and what it's doing at any given moment. It would also require that power to know where every atom is and what its doing at the target location. Then you have to be able to convert the matter to energy and back to matter.

I believed Carl Sagan called it the one Star Trek technology that is forever out of our reach.

[spodefly]

Call me when they get the 'Holodeck' and the '7 of 9 is your girlfriend' program working.

[techcor]

Actually, it was an album, not a sketch

You are correct, sir (or madam). This place is quicker than I thought. Eddie Murphy actually used one of their lines in a movie (Vampire in Brooklyn) which was "He's no fun. He fell right over." But I can't remember which album that was from.

[TigerTale]

I don't think this bears any relationship to Star Trek transporters.

Well, cut vannrox some slack. Declaring that "Ansible communication from Orson Scott Card's 'Ender's Game' and Usula K. LeGuin's 'The Left Hand of Darkness' is real!" might have been a bit obscure... :)

[Petronski]

Tea, Earl Grey, hot.

[ProfoundMan]

"Chrome fender dents, sneeze through window vents and a complete line of accessories designed with your mind, in mind"

"Nicky, Nicky, are you alright?
Yes
Then stop slapping me... ""

Good stuff. Thanks for reminding me...

[B Knotts]

So how does this affect causality, if at all?

[bmwcyle]

Beam me out of prison.

[Willie Green]

I was thinking more along the lines of "Beer, Rolling Rock, Cold"

[7.63Broom]

I don't recall, but we should ask Nick Danger, Third Eye!

Just remember- "Everything you know is wrong!"

[JoJo Gunn]

Dang! You mean your soul will be owned by Big Brother Gates, and you'll have to get authorization to get to Heaven from one of yesterdays fry cooks?

[Kirkwood]

Transporter psychosis. Is it real or just an excuse by liberals for antisocial behavior?

[Captain Beyond]

bump

[Petronski]

Okay, you've got me there, but hey, don't you have a keg on tap in your home?