Space Warping? Eh?

[betazed]

You can though, using quantum entanglement. That's how physicists were able to "teleport" an electron, or whatever particle they "teleported". No need for Heisenberg compensators.

But that is not copying really. You start with an entangled pair and teleport the entanglement. That is markedly different from starting with one electron and creating another one exactly like it. For the kind of teleportation that you are talking about to be used in the Star Trek fantasy to work you would need two Captian Kirk's entangled with each other in the beginning and you can teleport one to the other only and not to any arbitrary place.

This is the reason why sometime I feel concerned how popular media distorts good science.

 

[Mirc]

Particles travelling back in time? Time travel is for movies.

 

[warpus]

But that is not copying really. You start with an entangled pair and teleport the entanglement. That is markedly different from starting with one electron and creating another one exactly like it. For the kind of teleportation that you are talking about to be used in the Star Trek fantasy to work you would need two Captian Kirk's entangled with each other in the beginning and you can teleport one to the other only and not to any arbitrary place.

This is the reason why sometime I feel concerned how popular media distorts good science.

Wouldn't you just need to create a bucket of particles which are entangled with all the particles in Kirk's body, instead of actually starting w/ 2 Kirks? I know that practically speaking this would be almost impossible, but it was my understanding that essentialy you'd have a 'soup' of particles entangled with particles in some object, and that would allow you to 'teleport' that object to wherever the entangled 'soup' was.

Now, I have no idea how you ensure that 2 particles become entangled, but if it involves having them in close contact with eachother, the only thing that quantum entanglement is useful for might be FTL/instantenous communication devices.