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Amiga News and Community Announcements => Amiga News and Community Announcements => Miscellaneous => Topic started by: CyberViking2000 on June 18, 2002, 07:26:21 PM
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Australian researchers have teleported a laser beam of light from one place to another in a split second.
The experiment is a long way from "beaming up" people the way Scotty did on Star Trek, but the scientists say it's an important step toward achieving quantum computing ? shrinking computer components to the scale of a few atoms.
Beam me up Scotty! :-D
Read more of the article, below:
Scientists successfully teleport beam of light (http://cbc.ca/cgi-bin/templates/view.cgi?category=Sci-Tech&story=/news/2002/06/17/teleport020617)
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Cool aint it.
Spesh the consept of Atom sized computer components, lighting fast comunication process's.
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Hey, can somepone port this to OS4? ;-)
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Wow how weird, my mate was talking about this last night... He put it in the contecxt of starwars :) nnonono... Star Trek! :)
Havnt read it yet, but from what he told me, it was very very trippy...
And they were talking about being able to do this to data? Like on a harddisk... Yer, we had it on the news apparantly!!!
Well that would explain why my mate, saw it on the news... Aussies :) - Struth, mate... We might be smarter then we sound :)...
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Way cool!
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You are utterly distroyed, dead and gone!
What comes out the other side is not you but an exact duplicate of your physcial body.
Would you still be you or would you be an empty shell????
Who would want to be the first to try this???
NOT ME!
Loki :-D
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Don't get too excited guys. Teleportation by this method simply doesn't work - the quantum uncertaintly principle means that you can never know the position and momentum of a particle simultaneously, therefore you cannot know where it is to teleport it somewhere else. This is a fundamental law of the universe and can't be "got around", changed, or denied. Teleportation is an absolute impossibility. Anyone who says otherwise is wrong. The laws of physics themselves prove them wrong.
All these scientists did was to instantaneously transfer a photon from one place to another, one out of a trillion trillion trillion they fired at their equipment (probably by using some kind of LPR setup). This could mean a revolution in quantum computing and secure, instantaneous communication (uncrackable even by the smartest). Its not as fast as lightning - its *faster*.
However, real teleportation itself, if it comes, will probably be a phenomenon of bending space or creating wormholes. That means you won't be taken apart into energy - which is a stupid idea anyway because of the enormous practical difficulties and ethical implications.
Star Trek has a lot to answer for. You all watch it for 7 of 9. Come on, admit it! ;-)
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Cool about the physics.
But I dont get whats so big about 7 of 9 - I mean the girl has no personality, she'd be crap...
:-P
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But I dont get whats so big about 7 of 9
Her "boing balls" ??? :-D :-D :-D
Naah... I dont think that teleportation of humans would be possible either. However, it could be a nice way to transport raw materials...
On the other hand, scientist of the 1800's said that it would be impossible to go to the Moon, fly faster that sound, build computers or sit in a train going faster that 70 Km/h without suffocating. :-)
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hey, IBM has an ongoing project about teleportation since 1993.
here is the link:
Quantum teleportation (http://www.research.ibm.com/quantuminfo/teleportation/)
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kenny wrote:
Don't get too excited guys. Teleportation by this method simply doesn't work - the quantum uncertaintly principle means that you can never know the position and momentum of a particle simultaneously, therefore you cannot know where it is to teleport it somewhere else. This is a fundamental law of the universe and can't be "got around", changed, or denied. Teleportation is an absolute impossibility. Anyone who says otherwise is wrong. The laws of physics themselves prove them wrong.
not if you use a celebrated and paradoxical feature of quantum mechanics known as the Einstein-Podolsky-Rosen effect.
Quantum teleportation (http://www.research.ibm.com/quantuminfo/teleportation/)
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Actually, they didn't just do one photon, they did billions... they were transferring data at a distance of one meter, using the "cloned" light as the reciever..
- Paul
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Yes EPR - in my last post I mistakenly referred to it as LPR.
EPR is a quantum mechanical phenomenon that only occurs in very special situations, i.e. at close to absolute zero and with very little external forces. It only works with single pairs of particles too. Now if you try to use this effect to duplicate anything bigger than a photon at room temperature, quantum decoherence quickly destroys the EPR pairing - returning physics to the "classical" or "Einsteinian" realm.
EPR is just a curiosity right now. It could be used for communication, but not, at the time of writing, for much else.