Physicists beaming with teleport success

Guardian.co.uk ^ | June 17, 2002 | Staff and agencies

[Yardstick]

Bump. This is going to be an interesting century.

[EggsAckley]

Beam me up.....

[Billthedrill]

I'm thinking this one might have lost a little in translation from scientific English to Journalese. How does one "transport" a stream of photons?

[American Preservative]

Beam ping. : )

[RightWhale]

Pretty sure there have been a couple threads already, including this particular story. We're looking for a more detailed account that has some science content.

[Jhoffa_]

OMG..

[SirChas]

"My prediction is...it will probably be done by someone in the next three to five years, that is the teleportation of a single atom

I predict that the first thing to be teleported will be a Fosters!

[Illbay]

I understand that Jim Traficant has volunteered to be the first human subject.

[6ppc]

Guess I better dump my GM and Ford stock now! This is seriously cool!

[DrDavid]

Physicists believe quantum computers could outperform classical computers with enormous memory and the ability to solve problems infinitely faster.

And required minimum hardware for future versions of Microsoft Windows...

[Salgak]

Well, you PROVE transport by INTENTIONALLY introducing (and recording)random fluctuation in the beam. Then you do whatever you had to do (probably a quantum coupling effect) to "teleport" the beam, and record the fluctuations in the beam. . . Then compare the tapes. . . .

[mhking]

[Jhoffa_]

People need to think about the implications of this..

You can't stop it, that's for sure.. So we should be the leaders. There is no room for playing catch-up when you are talking about the potential to make aircraft carriers and icbm's obsolete..

Think about the military potential alone..

OMG..

[Jhoffa_]

PS: If this is real it has the potential to re-balance (and unseat) the current military powers that exist all over the planet in time.

We definately should lead here.. Anything spent on R&D may be worth it in the long run..

[Benrand]

How does this differ from what those researchers at NEC did?

They also had an experiment where a beam of light appeared to go faster than the SOL.

[ZeitgeistSurfer]

And required minimum hardware for future versions of Microsoft Windows...

You must mean Microsoft Holograms (TM) featuring Holocons (TM).

[TADSLOS]

This might just be a way for me to take care of my cat problem ;~)

[Salgak]

The details I've read require a receiver apparatus of some sort. If that wasn't the case, then you'd be right: Teleportation with no receiver required equates to a VERY short war. . .