"Reliable". Sure. Next thing you know you use it and you get 2 Captain Kirks, 1 wimpy and the other a rapist.
Posted on 05/29/2014 5:34:05 PM PDT by SeekAndFind
You might want to read this, snarky.
Tachyons?
teleport: verb: to transport (a body) by telekinesis.
Transporting data is not the same, particularly because they apparently replicated the data (without actually physically moving it).
How disappointing. What good is it, then?
The NSA has denied any recording of the transmitted data for future mining...
I'm not a fan of still-used-in-USA medieval English measuring units. So it's “interesting” to see "feet" showing up in an article concerning cutting-edge scientific discovery.
IMHO one of the greatest discovery ever made.
"Reliable". Sure. Next thing you know you use it and you get 2 Captain Kirks, 1 wimpy and the other a rapist.
I would not want to have my atoms scrambled, because I have no guarantee that it will be me on the other side.
However, I would be willing to send anybody here, even unwillingly to see what would happen.
Soooooooooooooo, what was transmitted that caused one photon to effect the other instantly?
It's unlike a classical system, in which the particles are distinguishable, and "particle A" on one side of a room is a distinct entity from "particle B" on the other side of the room. If two particles are truly quantum entangled, there is no "particle A" and no "particle B" because there is no way to know which is which: There is just a two particle system with the interchangeable entities separated in space(-time.)
Given that, a quantum system constructed remotely from its information (state vector or wave function) is NOT a copy. It is the original system.
Frank Tipler has an interesting religious and metaphysical discussion of this in his book The Physics of Immortality in which he discusses the fact that physical resurrection is a real possibility, because all God needs to know is your state vector in order to construct you. Since every electron in the universe is the same as every other [and indeed every quantum particle in the universe is the same as any other] it would still be the same "you" no matter what materials he used -- or where he chose to reassemble them; and it would be you... NOT a clone or identical twin.
Instantaneous communication between earth and mars maybe? If so it certainly solves some problems.
any questions?
Oh! Great. Yes.
You, right there, young man.
Yeah.
If you shot a ton
of pot at the sun,
would it burn up
and get everybody high?
No. No, no.
Are there any real questions
that pertain to science?
Do you take Cialis?
BOY: Why were you crying
in the bathroom
before this presentation?
How come it looks like
you’re about to cry now?
Do dinosaurs have boobs?
snip
What are you eating?
It’s a donut
stuffed with M&M’s.
That way when you finish
the donut, you don’t
have to eat any M&M’s.
You mean I can’t say: ‘Beam me up, Scotty’ yet? Darn...I guess I’ll have to wait.
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