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Cuddlebear
| | Posted on Wednesday, June 19, 2002 - 3:12 pm: | 
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I know this is way off topic But you Star trek Fans have to read this. Who knows? This technology might even have CB/Amature aplications some day. This was posted on AOL News.
Beam me up mate! Australia makes teleporting reality
By Belinda Goldsmith
CANBERRA, June 17 (Reuters) - In a world breakthrough out of the realms of Star Trek, scientists in Australia have successfully teleported a laser beam of light and an ant from one spot to another in a split second but warn: don't sell the car yet.
A team of physicists at the Australian National University (ANU) announced on Monday they had successfully disembodied a laser beam in one location and rebuilt it in a different spot about one metre away in the blink of an eye. Following that, three days later an ant accidently got into the system and was transported across the room to the other pad. The ant was then used three more times in a series of experiments in which he was transported back and forth from one pad to the other. Scientists say that after the experiment the ant suffered no ill effects other than disorientation for about an hour after the transport.
Project leader Dr Ping Koy Lam said there was a close resemblance between what his team had achieved and the movement of people in the science fiction series Star Trek but reality was still light years off beaming human beings between locations.
"In theory there is nothing stopping us from doing it but the complexity of the problem is so huge that no one is thinking seriously about it at the moment," Lam told a news conference.
However Lam said science was not too far from being able to teleport larger matter from one location to another.
"My prediction is...it will probably be done by someone in the next three to five years, " said Lam, who has worked on teleporting since 1997.
But he said humans posed a near-impossible task as we are made up of zillions of atoms -- quantified by a one with 27 zeroes -- so forget Star Trek where the Starship Enterprise crew step into a transporter, vaporize, then re-assemble elsewhere.
The process is known as Quantum entanglement.
However the breakthrough opens up enormous possibilities for future super-fast and super-secure communications systems, such as Quantum computers over the next decade.
WORLD RACE
Physicists believe Quantum computers could outperform classical computers with enormous memory and the ability to solve problems millions of times faster.
Teleportation became one of the hottest topics among physicists in Quantum mechanics in the past decade, after the IBM lab in the United States provided theoretical underpinning for the work in 1993. Since then about 40 laboratories globally have been experimenting in this area.
Although teams in California and Denmark were the first to do preliminary work on teleportation, the ANU team of scientists from Australia, Germany, France, China and New Zealand was the first to achieve a successful trial with 100 percent reliability.
The idea is if Quantum particles like electrons, ions, and atoms have the same properties, they are essentially the same.
So if the properties of Quantum particles making up an object are reproduced in another particle group, there would be a precise duplication of the object, so only information about the particles' properties need be transmitted, not the particles.
The inability to pass the information reliably has been a major stumbling block in past "entanglement" experiments.
ANU team member Warwick Bowen said they first successfully teleported a laser beam on May 23 to their great surprise, and repeated the success time after time in following weeks using their small-car-sized transporter, ironing out certain glitches.
"Even in Star Trek they realize there are problems with teleportation," Bowen told the news conference.
"It is such a complicated experiment that nobody knows whether their particular set-up is going to work until you do it....and it turns out our system is very good."
06/17/02 03:19 ET |
Galileo
| | Posted on Wednesday, June 19, 2002 - 7:12 pm: |
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I read this, but must have missed the part about the ant.... |
Bigbob
| | Posted on Wednesday, June 19, 2002 - 8:46 pm: |
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big deal photons,now molecules now thats A BIG DEAL!!!!!!! |
BIG FOOT
| | Posted on Thursday, June 20, 2002 - 8:03 pm: |
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...fine idea, just kep the airline companies and the auto manufacturers out of it.. or it will go the way of the 300 m.p.g. motors of the past...oh yes, keep SHELL and CHEVRON and TEXACO out of it, too !! they will want to get the patents on this and stuff it in a vault some where so we will still be buying THEIR gas and putting $$$ in their pockets for years to come !! BIG FOOT |
Taz
| | Posted on Thursday, June 20, 2002 - 11:44 pm: |
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Just a question..
WHO IS RUNNING THAT OPERATION??? THEY ALLOWED AN ANT IN THERE????????????????
WHAT KIND OF BUILDING WERE THEY DOING THIS IN?
A TENT? |
Cuddlebear
| | Posted on Thursday, June 27, 2002 - 2:03 pm: |
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Taz,
I have no clue, I just cut and pasted this from the actuall article I read. I thought it was very kewl so I just had to paste it here. As for the ant, Hey, who knows? Haven't you ever had ants get into your house? This was in Australia by the way. |
bruce
| | Posted on Thursday, June 27, 2002 - 9:30 pm: |
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Every time i see teleportation i think of the movie i saw in the 50's called " THE FLY" where a man gets mixed with a fly that got in his machine.
My luck is i get sent to the wrong address and my wife would catch me
bruce |
Straycat
| | Posted on Thursday, June 27, 2002 - 9:37 pm: |
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Post the url for this story |
bruce
| | Posted on Thursday, June 27, 2002 - 10:14 pm: |
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i saw it posted on YAHOO and in the St. Petersburg Times.... Florida not Russa |
Taz
| | Posted on Friday, June 28, 2002 - 3:10 am: |
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i think the same thing bruce! |
BIG FOOT
| | Posted on Friday, June 28, 2002 - 11:21 am: |
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...strange how history keeps repeating itself !! BIG FOOT |
B1kshad0w
| | Posted on Friday, June 28, 2002 - 7:54 pm: |
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I have something for you guys to ponder. Ok, if you read the article, it kills whatever you transport and basically makes a clone of it. So, if it makes an exact clone of you, is it still really you? Second, if you transport, it makes a clone of you, and you believe in god, (I know not everyone does) does that mean you have killed yourself. Will it keep you from getting into heaven? In the bible it says anyone that commits suicide will not go to heaven. |
Cuddlebear
| | Posted on Saturday, June 29, 2002 - 4:40 pm: |
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Dear B1kshad0w,
You do raise an interesting question. However, I am not the man to answer it. And I don't think anybody really is when it comes to the religious implications. I have myself been chastised by the religious leaders in my community for my belief in Chryo-Stasis. I am a Cryo-Con. (Cryogenic-Consumer) This means that when I die (or bite the big one) That I am placed in Cryogenic Suspension for later revival (I hope)And have been told by many leaders of the religious community that this is unattural/ against God/ etc. Wether or not this is, I do not care. Their free to believe the way they feel. And all I ask is they leave me to mine. However, I must admit. I was asked a question by a friend once that went like this. "If you die, your soul suposedly goes to Heaven/Hell whatever you believe" Then when your body is brought back from death, Does your Soul return to the body or not?" This is a good question. But one I'm going to hardly be in a place to answer since their is no proof of my soul either way. |
BIG FOOT
| | Posted on Thursday, August 15, 2002 - 9:23 am: |
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...intersting information...BIG FOOT |
R2d2
| | Posted on Sunday, September 01, 2002 - 11:11 pm: |
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Hmm.. This post reminds me of a show I saw on the Discovery Channel about zombies. They had a person who had been poisoned by some type of fish poison and died. Then days later, he came back alive, but was not the same. He acted differently than he use to. They believe that he died and his soul left his body and then days later, he came back alive, but with no soul. That may explain his different and unsual behavior. Scary stuff.. |
Megahurts
| | Posted on Monday, September 02, 2002 - 12:52 am: |
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I don't beleive the part about the ant. NO WAY! It's my understanding that following the current believed laws of physics, teleportation of matter will never be possible. |
2600
| | Posted on Monday, September 02, 2002 - 12:58 am: |
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Anybody who's watched a couple hundred Star Trek episodes knows you gotta have a Heisenberg Compensator to make a transporter !!!! . Wake me when the Aussies come up with one of those. Quantum entanglement is a little like gasoline with no car. A little scary, lotsa potential power, but nowhere to put it.
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2600
| | Posted on Monday, September 02, 2002 - 1:02 am: |
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Oh, man, I missed the part about the ant. I'm gonna go back and look up my copy of the original article. I think the 'ant' part of the story got spliced in by somebody with a sense of humor. Besides, just exactly how can you tell if an ant is "disoriented" ????? When he starts asking directions ??
73 |
newcombe
| | Posted on Monday, September 02, 2002 - 1:15 am: |
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If the disoriented antenna asked for directions it must have been a female antenna, no man would ever ask for directions. J |
Taz
| | Posted on Monday, September 02, 2002 - 1:19 am: |
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hahahahahaha |
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