Posted on 04/10/2025 10:19:12 PM PDT by Red Badger
I learned to be skeptical of WLT and Noah.
Hard to read their articles - they are all formatted in this
weird way and often repeat some stuff - WHY?
But worse I looked into Noah and his new career / job in
sales. Any product that I don’t need, way over-priced
and worse profits off of the lower IQs and elderly - NO
THANKS. If I wouldn’t buy it then why peddle it to others?
Thanks for posting. Space Force is interesting.
“Squirrel! Wait, he’s over there! No wait now he’s over here!”
I raise the tariff on your bullshit call to 125%
Short answer it is TOTAL HORSE HOCKEY!
So I asked GROK: Is there any science that supports teleportation technology?
Teleportation, as commonly imagined in science fiction, involves instantly transferring matter from one location to another without traversing the space in between. While this concept remains speculative, there are scientific ideas and experiments that touch on related principles, primarily in the realm of quantum mechanics. Here’s a breakdown of the relevant science:
Quantum Teleportation:
What it is: Quantum teleportation is a real phenomenon where the quantum state of a particle (e.g., a photon or electron) is transferred to another particle at a distant location. This relies on quantum entanglement, where two particles share a special connection such that the state of one instantly influences the other, regardless of distance.
Key experiments: Since the 1990s, scientists have successfully teleported quantum states of photons, electrons, and even small atoms over distances ranging from meters to hundreds of kilometers (e.g., via satellite in experiments by Chinese researchers in 2017). In 2020, researchers at Fermilab and Caltech teleported quantum states across 44 kilometers of fiber optic cable with high fidelity.
Limitations: This process doesn’t involve moving physical matter, only information about a particle’s quantum state. To reconstruct the original state, you need a receiving particle already in place and a classical communication channel to transmit additional data. It’s not “teleportation” of objects or people but of information, which is a far cry from sci-fi teleportation.
Entanglement and Nonlocality:
What it is: Entanglement suggests a kind of “spooky action at a distance” (as Einstein called it), where measuring one particle’s state instantly determines the state of its entangled partner, no matter how far apart. This phenomenon underpins quantum teleportation.
Relevance: While entanglement allows for instantaneous correlations, it doesn’t permit faster-than-light communication or matter transfer. The need for a classical channel to complete quantum teleportation ensures no information travels faster than light, respecting relativity.
Wormholes and General Relativity:
What it is: In theoretical physics, wormholes are hypothetical tunnels in spacetime that could connect distant points, potentially allowing near-instantaneous travel. They arise from solutions to Einstein’s field equations in general relativity.
Status: No evidence for wormholes exists, and they require exotic matter with negative energy to stay open, which is speculative and only observed in tiny amounts (e.g., via the Casimir effect). Recent theoretical work, like a 2022 study in Nature linking quantum teleportation protocols to wormhole-like structures in holographic models, suggests a deep mathematical connection between quantum entanglement and spacetime geometry. However, this is highly abstract and doesn’t imply practical teleportation.
Challenges: Even if wormholes exist, stabilizing them for matter transport would require physics beyond our current understanding, and they might only allow subatomic particles or information to pass.
Energy and Information Constraints:
Heisenberg Uncertainty Principle: To teleport a complex object, you’d need to measure its exact quantum state (position and momentum of every particle). However, the uncertainty principle limits how precisely these can be known, making perfect reconstruction theoretically problematic.
Data volume: A human body contains ~10^28 atoms. Scanning and transmitting their quantum states would generate an astronomical amount of data—far beyond current or foreseeable computational capabilities. A 1990s estimate by physicist Lawrence Krauss suggested teleporting a human’s information would take longer than the age of the universe to transmit with classical methods.
Energy costs: The energy required to manipulate or entangle particles at scale, or to create conditions for something like a wormhole, would likely be immense, possibly requiring exotic forms of energy we can’t harness.
Speculative Ideas:
Some physicists, like Michio Kaku, have speculated about teleportation via advanced nanotechnology or quantum computing, where an object is scanned, deconstructed, and rebuilt elsewhere. However, this faces ethical and practical issues (e.g., is the rebuilt entity the “same” person?) and remains purely theoretical.
Concepts like “digital teleportation” (uploading consciousness to a digital medium and transferring it) are explored in philosophy and sci-fi but lack scientific grounding due to our limited understanding of consciousness.
Current Reality:
Quantum teleportation is a promising tool for quantum computing and secure communication (e.g., quantum cryptography), but it’s unrelated to moving macroscopic objects.
No experiment or theory supports teleporting complex matter, like a human or even a small object, in a way that resembles sci-fi teleportation.
The laws of physics, as we understand them (quantum mechanics, relativity), impose strict limits: no faster-than-light travel, no bypassing the uncertainty principle, and no mechanism to instantly reorganize matter across space.
Future Prospects:
Advances in quantum computing might improve quantum teleportation for information processing, but scaling this to macroscopic objects is a distant, if not impossible, goal.
Breakthroughs in unifying quantum mechanics and general relativity could reveal new possibilities (e.g., practical wormholes), but this is speculative and likely centuries away, if feasible at all.
In short, while quantum teleportation is a fascinating reality at the subatomic level, there’s no science today that supports teleportation of physical objects or people. The gaps between current physics and sci-fi teleportation are vast, rooted in fundamental limits of energy, information, and spacetime. If you’re curious about a specific aspect—like quantum experiments or wormhole theories—I can dig deeper!
Your comment is a refutation of "teleportation," but my comment does not mention it or imply that such a thing exists.
(spoiler on the excellent film during examination of the balance between science and perception)
GROK is not correct.
Getting anywhere on Earth in an hour isn’t difficult, there’s just not much reason for it, but the tech is easy enough. Anything that can get to space can land anywhere real quickly.
And from a human-rate standpoint, it’s a bit harder but simply isn’t economically feasible. Who’s gonna pay millions of dollars for one 30-min flight from DFW to Tokyo? Where you’re strapped down like an astronaut with no training, on a loud, annoying rocket trip?
Sure, millionaires might do it to say they did, but it’s not gonna be a daily flyer for anyone.
Landing safely is the actual trick.
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