Teleportation Takes Another Step

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[robertpaulsen]

Is "spooky interaction" instantaneous?

[SoothingDave]

-no more stores, you just order it online, and it gets zapped into your living room from the warehouse.

Nah. All you need is some bulk matter. Then you just program it into whatever you desire.

Talk about leftovers! You could make yesterday's garbage into today's dinner.

SD

[RightWhale]

E=MC2, thus to transport the matter at the speed of light, you will need huge amounts of energy.

We don't have enough math to even know that. The complex plane is great for working with potential fields, but it is limited to two dimensional fields, hardly a real-world situation. Yet the complex plane has not been successfully extended to three dimensions or four dimensions of the natural universe. Quaternions was a nice try, but failed. If someone has an idea how to extend the complex plane to three or four dimensions, speak up, we'll get rich and famous when it works. No one has had the right idea and possessed the ability to do the math at the same time.

[RightWhale]

"quantum entanglement,"

It doesn't matter where the photons are. One can be in New Jersey, the other gone out for bagels in the Andromeda Galaxy. Once they are entangled,, distance is not a factor. Instantaneous, simultaneous, immediate.

[weikel]

Dunno what effect it would have on the consciousness... I would always be too superstious to use anything that ripped my molecular structure apart and reassembled it.... BAD MAGIC LOL

[weikel]

Postulating certain theories about interconnectedness of all particles in the universe and the universe being a projection of a higher dimension then yes. Otherwise...

[DannyTN]

and no more US - Saddam would teleport us full of toxic sludge/germs/radioactive waste.

Assuming that he could get his hands on the technology in the first place and that we hadn't already accidently lost his signal.

[RightWhale]

interconnectedness of all particles

There is only one particle. There can be only one. See it correctly.

[robertpaulsen]

"Rogue Moon", by Algis Budrys

The year is 1959 (ie, when the book was written), and an alien artifact has been found on the moon. No, it's not an alternate-history novel. The public doesn't know that the moon is reachable via matter transmitter. There are problems with the transmitter: The device doesn't move you; it duplicates you. For a short time, before differing experiences cause you to diverge, you and your duplicate are so similar (call it nineteen decimal places' similarity :) that you are telepathically linked. Then there are two of you. One goes home for supper; one remains on the moon.

The artifact? The artifact is *very* alien, incomprehensible. And people who enter it die. For practical purposes, it's a maze: If you do the right things at the right times, you can get through it. Mapping that maze, however, costs lives at both ends. The duplicates on the moon map out a bit more of the artifact before being killed -- and the telepathically linked originals on Earth are broken by the experience.

Edward Hawks, the developer of the matter transmitter, needs someone who can survive the experience. He turns to Al Barker -- an adventurer with a bit of a death wish -- and talks him into joining the project. Again and again Barker goes through the maze -- farther each time -- and dies.

[Havoc]

And idiots endlessly prattle on as if the comparison has any grounding in reality. One might as well complain, "Gee, we breath oxygen, why shouldn't we be allowed to breath methane?" I'm sure Thieves are upset that they get arrested for stealing. Shall we next hear about how theft isn't really that bad afterall....

[finnman69]

subspace radio


subspace radio

Method of communication that sends electromagnetic signals through subspace, boosting the signal's range and speed to translight velocities. Subspace signals can carry audiovisual data as well as text messages. Within Federation boundaries, a network of relay stations augments subspace communication and amplifying and rerouting messages as needed.

[DannyTN]

The jobs could be a problem in the short run. But the demand for transporters would be huge, and their would probably be a variety of sizes.

Retail stores would still exist because people would want to see it first. But they would be reduced in number. Why have 500 across the nation when 5 might do?

Urbanization might stop and people would return to rural areas. Productivity would soar.

Overseas travel and tourism would soar. So would globalization. Cultures would rapidly blend.

On the dark side... Promiscuity would increase. Demonstrations would become larger as travel costs are mitigated. Diseases would spread more rapidly.

Observatories in hostile environments would be much easier to maintain.

[weikel]

Hmmm so the extradimensional string interconnections between all the little particles form one big extradimensional particle( hmmm a scientific proof of panthiesm)...? Im an amatuer physics wise( EE major) so don't be too hard on me if I get something wrong here.

[RightWhale]

Hey! I'm a EE, too. Maybe we're the same person.

[weikel]

subspace radio

Its my understanding that thats a term Star Trek made up so communications could be faster. No real grounding in any physics whatsoever( im not sure and could be wrong).

[weikel]

Hey! I'm a EE, too

Did it burn you out as much as me? Im procrastinating here because after ceaseless a**busting A & B terms my motivation is gone... doubt ill do to well this term. I should have been an accountant I lived right near Babson accountants have been have been the only non government sector doing well in the job market.

[RightWhale]

No, it's okay. Had to get a special prescription so I could read the numbers on the chips in lab, darn those things are small, but the glasses work for welding, too. Win-win.

[weikel]

Don't get me started on labs...

[js1138]

Aside from the fact that it does work, it will be useful to transfer information at least.

I will defer to physicist on this, but I don't think anyone has demonstrated faster than light transfer of information. the distinction is a bit beyond my abilities to explain, but I do follow the argument.

[Arkie2]

You trekkers are such sticklers for detail! Photonic communication sounds better anyway.