Teleportation is near!

[Hollywood Horwitz]

in the future,i will teleport to all the conventions....see below..



Teleportation: Express Lane Space Travel
Leonard David

Thanks to lab experiments, there is growth in the number of "beam me up" believers, but there is an equal amount of disbelief, too.


Over the last few years, however, researchers have successfully teleported beams of light across a laboratory bench. Also, the quantum state of a trapped calcium ion to another calcium ion has been teleported in a controlled way.


These and other experiments all make for heady and heavy reading in scientific journals. The reports would have surely found a spot on Einstein's night table. For the most part, it's an exotic amalgam of things like quantum this and quantum that, wave function, qubits and polarization, as well as uncertainty principle, excited states and entanglement.


Seemingly, milking all this highbrow physics to flesh out point-to-point human teleportation is a long, long way off.


Well, maybe...maybe not.


A trillion trillion atoms


In his new book, Teleportation - The Impossible Leap, published by John Wiley & Sons, Inc., writer David Darling contends that ""One way or another, teleportation is going to play a major role in all our futures. It will be a fundamental process at the heart of quantum computers, which will themselves radically change the world."


Darling suggests that some form of classical teleportation and replication for inanimate objects also seems inevitable. But whether humans can make the leap, well, that remains to be seen.


Teleporting a person would require a machine that isolates, appraises, and keeps track of over a trillion trillion atoms that constitute the human body, then sends that data to another locale for reassembly--and hopefully without mussing up your physical and mental makeup.


"One thing is certain: if that impossible leap turns out to be merely difficult--a question of simply overcoming technical challenges--it will someday be accomplished," Darling predicts.


In this regard, Darling writes that the quantum computer "is the joker in the deck, the factor that changes the rules of what is and isn't possible."


Just last month, in fact, scientists at Hewlett Packard announced that they've hammered out a new tactic for a creating a quantum computer?using switches of light beams rather than today's run of the mill, transistor-laden devices. What's in the offing is hardware capable of making calculations billions of times faster than any silicon-based computer.


Given quantum computers and the networking of these devices, Darling senses the day may not be far off for routine teleportation of individual atoms and molecules. That would lead to teleportation of macromolecules and microbeswith, perhaps, human teleportation to follow.

[pornguy]

Welcome to last year. I think that it was in Australia they moved a molecule from one city to another, almost instantly.

[mardigras]

Wonkavision

[AlienQ - BANNED FOR LIFE]

Through science all things are possible.


Through sheer will the human race will bend the universe to its needs.

Even Magic.

[C-Bass]

very interesting read.

[thaifan99]

beam me up snotty!

[PixeLs]

Will I still be alive when that thing happens?

[DWB]

Originally Posted by mardigras

Wonkavision

It breaks you up into a million pieces but puts you back together smaller.

[sniperwolf]

that'll be really cool... but would really take a long long time to achieve

[mikeyddddd]

Pure
Fucking
Magic

[jukeboxfrank]

I hope they make a xxx size

[tony286]

thats great my wife hates to fly lol

[KRL]

Can't wait, I hate driving in traffic.

[reynold]

Still looks impossible to me.