Beam me up Scotty!

[mrog]

Scientists at the Austrlian National University have successfully demonstrated teleportion! At this stage it only of laser beams, but they are hopeful of teleporting single atoms within a few years. Follow the link below if you want to read more.

http://theage.com.au/articles/2002/06/17/1023864402551.html

 

[De Lorimier]

That's good news I guess.
The first time I heard of the possibilities involving quantium technology was by reading a book called "Timeline" by Micheal Creighton, or Crighton...not so sure, that's the guy who wrote "Jurassic Park", "The 13th Warrior" and "Sphere" among others. The book is of course way ahead in the technology development and involves humans travelling in a different universe back in time. They're shooting the movie in Montréal since may with Paul Walker (the guy from The fast and furious).

 

[Trabpukcip]

Hey De Lormier... is your first name François? cause I used to know a François De Lormier who lives in Montréal...

And the fact that you remember that contra trick is so cool... you're an oldschoold gamer aren't you? And if so, we could most likely become freind... in the real world I mean... and even more if you speak french...

 

[ainwood]

The details are a bit sketchy, but it may be that they have used quantum entanglement to do this. If this is the case, then they haven't really "teleported" the laser beam at all. They have effectively 'cloned' it instead. A subtle, but important, difference.

 

[philippe]

yes in about 50 years they can maybe move 1mm
of materia by teleport

 

[napoleon526]

Originally posted by De Lorimier
That's good news I guess.
The first time I heard of the possibilities involving quantium technology was by reading a book called "Timeline" by Micheal Creighton, or Crighton...not so sure, that's the guy who wrote "Jurassic Park", "The 13th Warrior" and "Sphere" among others. The book is of course way ahead in the technology development and involves humans travelling in a different universe back in time. They're shooting the movie in Montréal since may with Paul Walker (the guy from The fast and furious).

This is a great book, and will probably make an awesome movie. The way 'time travel' and 'teleportation' are described in the book makes it sound as if this is actually possible, but the technology is most likely years away.

 

[polymath]

Ainwood, yes it was by quantum entanglement, I remember hearing that.

 

[napoleon526]

Originally posted by polymath
Ainwood, yes it was by quantum entanglement, I remember hearing that.

Are you talking about the real experiment, or the book Timeline?

 

[CurtSibling]

Do you know JT Kirk never actually uttered the words;
"beam me up, Scotty" during any Star Trek episode.

Useless trivia!

But I think this will one day be a huge breakthrough for the telecommunication industry!

Who knows where it will lead!

 

[The Balrog]

Well they should then experiment in turning Humans into laser beams(and back again)

 

[polymath]

Napoleon, the actual experiment was quantum entanglement, I haven't read the book.

 

[De Lorimier]

The details are a bit sketchy, but it may be that they have used quantum entanglement to do this. If this is the case, then they haven't really "teleported" the laser beam at all. They have effectively 'cloned' it instead. A subtle, but important, difference.

From what I remember from the book, the humans transported weren't really transported, they were reconstruct from atoms in their new "universe" when they moved. So it seems like that author really research this before writing the book. On a different subject here, don't mean to hijack the thread, was the technology used in Jurrasic Park so bogus? I heard or read about cloning of extinct animals with that kind of technology. Anyone?

the fact that you remember that contra trick is so cool... you're an oldschoold gamer aren't you?

I always remember that line but I stole the whole thing from a Saturday Night Life sketch with Johnny Mosley and Jimmy Fallon. I'm not an "oldschool gamer".

 

[floppa21]

I have read Crichton. The DNA tech in Jurassic read as very believable, I personally don't know if it is realistic or not, sure seems like it could be to me anyways...

And as for teleportation, I remember reading about deconstructing on a molecular level and reconstructing again. But isn't that kind of like The Fly? It didn't work but it DID deconstruct and reconstruct the guy, just mixed him with a fly? I ain't teleportin sh*t!

 

[De Lorimier]

And as for teleportation, I remember reading about deconstructing on a molecular level and reconstructing again. But isn't that kind of like The Fly? It didn't work but it DID deconstruct and reconstruct the guy, just mixed him with a fly? I ain't teleportin sh*t!

Just don't let a fly in with you But in the book they made sure the people reconstructed in a clear place (instead of through a tree) and they didn't mentionned the danger of insects

 

[floppa21]

Jeez, teleportation would be interesting... Even a stray hair could jack things up... Wow, now I wanna go get some Crichton books again...

They cloned chickens and sheep. Even featherless chickens. Now we just need to teleport them.

 

[Case]

Speaking as a student at the Australian National University, I hope that they hurry up and get teleportation working so that I don't have to spend so much time driving to and from uni

 

[mrog]

Originally posted by ainwood
The details are a bit sketchy, but it may be that they have used quantum entanglement to do this. If this is the case, then they haven't really "teleported" the laser beam at all. They have effectively 'cloned' it instead. A subtle, but important, difference.

I thought the point of teleportation was that information defining the quantum state of the particles (photons or whatever)was transmitted to a new location and they were then reconstructed using local matter / energy (or "cloning" as you have described it)- rather than physically moving the particles (transportation).

I thought quantum entanglement was just one theortical way to acheive teleportation (as opposed to transportation). Can you please explain, using light as an example, the distinction between "teleportation" "transportstion" and "quantum entanglement"?