A case for gun control.

[zudobug]

TPG,

If you decide to put together a "fix-it" gang, I want in! What a fantastic idea :-) Honest, I'll come and help. It'd be worth doing just to see if we do get arrested. :-)

-zudo

[zudobug]

he knows French culture and French sensibilities about as much as an insect knows about quantum physics.

It's true I don't know much about quantum physics (bug, see?) but I find this fascinating:

Teleportation breakthrough made [BBC - Science]

First, a pair of highly entangled, charged atoms (or ions) are created: B and C. Next, the state to be teleported is created in a third ion, A.

Then, one ion from the pair - let's say B - is entangled with A, and the internal state of both is measured.

Finally, the quantum state of ion A is sent to ion C, transforming it. This destroys the original quantum state of A.

The teleportation took place in milliseconds and at the push of a button, the first time such a deterministic mechanism has been developed for the process.

I read something years ago about how 2 atoms can share quantum states even when moved apart. But that was in one of those weird science books that have chapters on plants dying if you say nasty things to them and razor blades getting sharper if put inside little pyramids.

Cool eh?

-zudo

[edit - missed out some words... tired... bedtime]