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DeLorean Tremens. Hold onto your flux capacitors, time machines have nearly arrived
Smithsonian Magazine.com ^
| March 10, 2007
| by Eric Jaffe
Posted on 03/10/2007 8:03:48 AM PST by aculeus
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To: who_would_fardels_bear
Although I think I read somewhere once that if aliens had a telescope powerful enough to see Earth from, say, thirty light years away, they would have seen Earth as it was in the Seventies, disco and all, because the light from Earth would have taken that long to reach them, because when we look at distant stars and galaxies, we're seeing what they looked like thousands or even millions of years ago.
For sending information back in time, Gregory Benford's Timescape is a classic in this regard.
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posted on
03/10/2007 3:51:32 PM PST
by
WestVirginiaRebel
("...Mindless pack of trained Maoist circus seals.")
To: WestVirginiaRebel
From the article you referenced:
"The Caltech group was able to read the atomic structure of a photon"
Last time I checked, photons don't have atomic structure.
So I'm not so sure about teleportation.
Also, from my understanding the entanglement is very important to this process. One would need to get a bunch of photons entangled and then transport half of them to some other distant location, presumably by traditional methods such as rockets, solar sails, etc.
Then one could use the entangled photons to transport stuff from Point A to Point B.
So if superintelligent space aliens want to instantly teleport battlestars within photon torpedo range of Earth, they would first have to shuttle over countless entagled photons to Earth by much more traditional means.
To: WestVirginiaRebel
Gives good food for thought. We haven't seen extraterrestrials likely because of the vast distances between star systems, and societies just don't last long enough.
By the time we'd be able to traverse time, the Sun will have gone red giant and we'd be grains of sand on a distant, dead beach way down the line.
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posted on
03/10/2007 4:11:24 PM PST
by
IslandJeff
(if you marginalize religion, only the marginalized will have religion. -Mark Steyn)
To: Old Professer; Jedi Master Pikachu
Now hyperdrives are as common as buttholes, right?
No; but "Butthole Hyperdrive" used to open for "The Sex Pistols."
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posted on
03/10/2007 4:18:36 PM PST
by
Grizzled Bear
("Does not play well with others.")
To: Grizzled Bear
I thought a hyperedrive butthole was what you got when you ate too much chili...
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posted on
03/10/2007 5:50:31 PM PST
by
WestVirginiaRebel
("...Mindless pack of trained Maoist circus seals.")
To: Grizzled Bear
I thought a hyperdrive butthole was what you got when you ate too much chili...
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posted on
03/10/2007 5:50:51 PM PST
by
WestVirginiaRebel
("...Mindless pack of trained Maoist circus seals.")
To: Grizzled Bear
Dave Barry didn't really retire, reality overtook him.
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posted on
03/10/2007 9:10:52 PM PST
by
Old Professer
(The critic writes with rapier pen, dips it twice, and writes again.)
To: LibKill
"DON'T BUILD IT!"
Too late - Bill Clintoon has already built it and he has gone back in time about 1400 years, changed his name to Mohammed, and started a religion.
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posted on
03/11/2007 10:45:37 PM PDT
by
RebelTex
(Help cure diseases: http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1548372/posts)
To: umgud
Mrs. Kerry...Mrs. Edwards...Mrs. Rodham...
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posted on
03/12/2007 1:38:30 PM PDT
by
RockinRight
(My wish for Islam - The Glass Parking Lot Formerly Known As The Middle East.)
To: WestVirginiaRebel
From the link:
By entangling photons B and C, researchers can extract some information about photon A, and the remaining information would be passed on to B by way of entanglement, and then on to photon C. When researchers apply the information from photon A to photon C, they can create an exact replica of photon A. However, photon A no longer exists as it did before the information was sent to photon C.
In other words, when Captain Kirk beams down to an alien planet, an analysis of his atomic structure is passed through the transporter room to his desired location, where a replica of Kirk is created and the original is destroyed.
That's a little unsettling.
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posted on
03/12/2007 2:01:37 PM PDT
by
reagan_fanatic
(I have a big carbon footprint and I'm not afraid to use it.)
To: reagan_fanatic
I noticed that...I think in the non-canon Star Trek novel Federation, they explained to Zefram Cochrane that the transporter worked on a quantum level when he asked them about this very question. And I think Picard was replicated in one early episode where he was trapped in the trasporter after merging with an alien.
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posted on
03/12/2007 3:48:58 PM PDT
by
WestVirginiaRebel
("...Mindless pack of trained Maoist circus seals."-www.iowahwk.typepad.com)
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