Scientists Take Quantum Steps Toward Teleportation

npr.org ^ | August 1, 2010 | NPR Staff

[fish hawk]

Jim Beam me up. I mean, Jim, beam me up.

[ILS21R]

It’s Wonkavision.

[Nachum]

The Fly?

[Mmogamer]

They will still need Heisenberg compensator's...

[jwalsh07]

"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 has been tested?

[Deagle]

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...

[Yo-Yo]

Jim Beam me up.

"I teleport alone, yeah with nobody else."

[cripplecreek]

LLLOL

[Candor7]

[ConservativeMan55]

bttt

[RandallFlagg]

and some even think entanglement may explain things like telepathy.

Well, you start messing around with things using the word, "Entanglement," in 'em...

Next thing you know, the Combine show up.


Then, ya gotta call this guy:

[Psycho_Bunny]

"and some even think entanglement may explain things like telepathy"

Really? There might be a explanation for the everyday, common occurrence of telepathy?

My taxes helped write this nonsense?

[justlurking]

They will still need Heisenberg compensator's...

This article implies that it may not be needed:

http://arstechnica.com/science/news/2010/08/quantum-memory-may-topple-heisenbergs-uncertainty-principle.ars

[Sgt_Schultze]

Does that mean that the speed of light is not a constant?

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.

[ScottinVA]

Great! Teleport 0bama to Kenya and repeat every time he shows back up here in the USA.

[angryoldfatman]

This has been tested?

It's a legit part of quantum mechanics, but hey, it's NPR doing the reporting, so they have to explain it in a way that excites dope-smoking hippies.

Here's a goofy J.Z. Knight-sponsored cartoon on the subject.

Here's your typical NPR listener trying to explain it.

[Paratesties]

Can they teleport the commie bastage in the White House to Pluto?

[Deagle]

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...

[TigersEye]

The problem with such an act, Kaku says, is that "you have to be destroyed in order to have your body teleported to the other side of the room. So if you've been destroyed and teleported, then who is that person there? They have the same memory, the same jokes, the same everything, except the original was destroyed in the process of being teleported."

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.