Mekt-Hakkikt
Mpanty's bane
Didn't you play C&C- Red Alert? Killing Hitler wouldn't lead to better 1940s.
Scientists have indeed create what some call a transporter, but it can only transport photon's, not even molecules.Originally posted by The Shadow
Bhaktadil, i remember reading somewhere of how scientists have already developed an extremely primative teleportation device already.... but by "teleportation" they refer to the ability to make one molecule interact with another without the two actually making any form of normal contact. i still think it is very interesting though... any thoughts?
Originally posted by Firebird
Also here is another good debate topic. If time is possible, where are the time travelers? I believe Einstein believed that nature may not let time travel into the past beyond the point when the first time traveling device was created. Interesting theory. What do you all think?
My info might be a little outdated, it is possible that they've done it with something larger than a photon by now, but I'm not sure.Originally posted by Lord QDaan
Unforgiven: I'll be honest, I don't know too much about these things, but it sounds vaguely like this article on quantum entanglement I read a little while ago in the December issue of Scientific American. It speaks of the recent entanglement of two golfball-sized clouds of cesium containing trillions of atoms.
Either you have outdated info, or I'm confused again.
You understood it wrong. The EPR-experiment was designed to prove Quantum Mechanics wrong, because that communications channel couldn't exist. Since it turns out it actually does exist, QM is right, and the EPR-experiment failed.Originally posted by Talyn 83
Cool. Looks like it could work. If indeed, as you say at least that part of quantum-mechanics is wrong.
Originally posted by Unforgiven
You understood it wrong.
Originally posted by The Shadow
Bhaktadil, i remember reading somewhere of how scientists have already developed an extremely primative teleportation device already.... but by "teleportation" they refer to the ability to make one molecule interact with another without the two actually making any form of normal contact. i still think it is very interesting though... any thoughts?
I don't believe that. How do you transmit atoms digitally (ie how do you convert them from atoms to some form of digital data and how do you convert that back to atoms on the receiving end)?Originally posted by Oggy
Apparently, British Telecom have successfully teleported an apple from one room to an adjacent room down in one of the research labs near Goonhilly, but nobody dared to eat it after the experiment. I don't know how it worked exactly, but it involved splitting the apple down to its component atoms and somehow transmitted them digitally to the other room where it was recreated
You *can't* describe an atom. You can't know everything just as precise at the same time. If you know it's position exactly, you have no data at all about it's speed and direction, and vice versa. That's Heisenberg's uncertenty principle, and the reason transportation cannot be done by converting mass into a datastream.Originally posted by Treguard
Atom = Well how many variables of this can there be? So perhaps it'd take say 500kb just to describe 1 atom
Of course, Star Trek has a Heisenberg compensator for this, but no one knows how that works.
AFAIK, the only successful “teleportation” that has been achieved to date involved only photons (which are massless) in an experiment conducted by scientists at the California Institute of Technology and the University of Aarhus (Denmark) in 1998.
It wasn't the REAL 'poof' teleportation of a photon, but the transfer of properties which made photon X have the same properties of photon Z using photon Y as a middleman to carry this thing out.