Posted on 08/02/2010 4:47:06 PM PDT by Free ThinkerNY
"Quantum entanglement" may sound like an awful sci-fi romance flick, but it's actually a phenomenon that physicists say may someday lead to the ability to teleport an object all the way across the galaxy instantly.
It's not exactly the Star Trek version of teleportation, where an object disappears then reappears somewhere else. Rather, it "entangles" two different atoms so that one atom inherits the properties of another.
"According to the quantum theory, everything vibrates," theoretical physicist Michio Kaku tells NPR's Guy Raz. Kaku is a frequent guest on the Science and Discovery channels. "When two electrons are placed close together, they vibrate in unison. When you separate them, that's when all the fireworks start."
This is where quantum entanglement — sometimes described as "teleportation" — begins. "An invisible umbilical cord emerges connecting these two electrons. And you can separate them by as much as a galaxy if you want. Then, if you vibrate one of them, somehow on the other end of the galaxy the other electron knows that its partner is being jiggled."
This process happens even faster than the speed of light, physicists say.
Quantum entanglement isn't a new idea — Einstein once famously referred to it as "spooky action at a distance" — but it wasn't until the past 30 years that scientists were first able to observe this process.
It could one day lead to new types of computers, and some even think entanglement may explain things like telepathy. Scientists aren't quite ready to beam up Scotty yet, but this is the technology that one day may lead to such a feat.
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Jim Beam me up. I mean, Jim, beam me up.
It’s Wonkavision.
The Fly?
This has been tested?
Wait a minute! Does that mean that the speed of light is not a constant? What other of our current theories will be trashed? Actually, probably most since so many are based upon theories and many can’t be proved...
"I teleport alone, yeah with nobody else."
LLLOL
bttt
Really? There might be a explanation for the everyday, common occurrence of telepathy?
My taxes helped write this nonsense?
This article implies that it may not be needed:
Don't start. This is "settled science" and nobody will take the opinions of light-speed deniers seriously. The "new science" template requires all believed truths to remain unchallenged.
Great! Teleport 0bama to Kenya and repeat every time he shows back up here in the USA.
Can they teleport the commie bastage in the White House to Pluto?
Heh...you know, that science is only what they have discovered today...ya know? Tomorrow, who knows...
Us older folks use to think science was a known factor...today, we know better...
That is not as big of a problem as he makes it sound. Consider that every seven years every cell in our body has been replaced. Every moment things are changing in every cell in our bodies so we really aren't the same being we were ten minutes ago.
The question he's really getting at is "will the consciousness, ie mind, exist in the living being that is "transported" via quantum entanglement?"
He's wrong about it not being like the Star Trek teleporter too. It did disassemble the transported object and reassemble it. Not the same thing as this quantum entanglement idea but a teleported person was essentially destroyed in the process.
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