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[Logic]

Teleportation is known to most of us who have ever watched Star Trek. But how could the highly complex matter which makes up our bodies actually be broken down and transmitted in this way? Research has taken a step closer in recent months with the announcement that a photon of light has been successfully teleported from one location to another. This is a significant breakthrough to anyone who longs to say those immortal words, 'Beam me up Scotty!'

The researchers involved said they had teleported a beam of light across a laboratory bench. They did not physically transport the beam itself, but transmitted its properties to another beam, creating a replica of the first beam. Such Quantum teleportation allows information to be transmitted at the speed of light - the fastest speed possible - without being slowed down by wires or cables.

The experiment depends on a property known as entanglement, what Albert Einstein once described as "spooky action at a distance." It is a property of atomic particles that mystifies even physicists. Sometimes two particles that are a very long distance apart are nonetheless somehow twinned, with the properties of one affecting the other.

The research was carried out by Kimble who's team created two entangled light beams, streams of photons. Photons, the basic unit of light, sometimes act like particles and sometimes like waves. They used these two entangled beams to carry information about the quantum state of a third beam. The first two beams were destroyed in the process, but the third successfully transmitted its properties over a distance of about a yard.

Quantum physics suggests that matter is capable of existing in two forms either as a particle or a wave. It has been debated for years that it is the act of observation of the matter in the macro world (i.e. consciousness ) that gives matter its actual solid form instead of its fuzziness.

Imagine that you have a refrigerator, inside there are 6 eggs. Where are these eggs? in the door, on the top or bottom shelf? Quantum physics suggests that they could be anywhere and everywhere at once. It is the act of looking into the refrigerator that collapses the waves of energy into localised particles.

Have you understood so far? Yes. Then I'll continue.

Each of us and the are aware of our own existence, and there fore we collapse the particles which make up our bodies into the solid form that they usually take. Now what if we actually had the ability to react with particles at the sub atomic level and collapse them back into a wave form. They would seem to disappear.

This would take them out of normal space-time. Then in this fuzziness of non-existence where space and time do not actually exist one can think oneself to another location. The distance does not matter at all as long as you know where and when you want to be. Then like the entangled photons you simply recreate an exact replica of yourself from the surrounding matter!

Whether we as individuals ever develop these remarkable abilities ourselves or develop technology which transmits our bio-molecular details (including all memory engrams to ensure personality remains intact) I am in no doubt that there will be people out there willing to give up their very existence to be able to say the word 'Energise'.
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[Tommy]

Logic, the link would have been just as good!   :s04

http://www.effdee.demon.co.uk/manyarner/ps...ic.htm#tptheory

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[Logic]

It would be nice if you told me how to cite a source.

[Tommy]

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Okay then:  Citing a source is easier than it sounds:  

First, locate the source you wish to ‘cite’ from.

Progress the mouse cursor to the address bar at the top of the page and right click.  

Select copy.  

When you wish to insert your reference to the source, right click again and select paste.  

This method of copy and paste rarely fails to meet the most stringent of source citing standards.  If non-WWW material is used, then perhaps a brief mention at the end of the post would suffice if it’s not deemed superfluous, and so should be used at the author’s discretion.

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[Homer]

Ok Tommy, you lost me. Can you repeat what you said after "locate the source", or do I have to scroll all the way up and re-read it myself ;D

[odinsupreme]

You were talking about seperating a human being into atoms, well, how do you think that that should go? Imagen that we can do it with somekind of machine and then what? I bet that it has got to hurt! Your brains can only work because of electric charched particles and if you split everything into atoms that electricity is gone, so are your memories and thoughts... You would be a plant-human, capable of nothing....

Odin S. :s9

[Althalus]

a new version of Schrodingers Cat was mentioned there.  get a cat put it in a box with a plutonium rod, and seal it up.  is the cat dead or not, only by looking at the cat and seeing for yourself can you be sure.  

[SpaceyKC]

          Better yet - put Schrodinger in the box!!   >:(

[cerberus]

i don't think successful human teleportation is possible.well not by humans anytime soon.i agree that inanimate objects could be teleported , although would the properties of that object be left behind rather like the situation with the human teleportation? would lets say a rock..... just crumble into dust?

[Electro]

I reckon that we're all barking up the wrong tree thinking along the lines of atomisation and re-combination. At the end of the day if you atomise something you've got the headache of transporting it anyway afterwards and then re-combining the thing in the right order. Chernobl has already created enough mutated species without us helping out.

With regards to the experiment that was carried out relating to the teleportation of light photons I actually heard an update on that on BBC Radio 1 News. One of the interesting effects that wasn't mentioned in the posting was that apparently the photons appeared to have been teleported before they were actually sent?!?!?!??!?!!?!?!?!?!?!?!?!??!?!?!?!??!?!

WOW?!?!?!?!?!?!??!?!

Anyhow, with regards to teleportation imagine the following.

In order to teleport something from one location to another it is thought that you must dematerialise an object at one location and re-materialise it at another. What if this is not the case?

Take the experiment above. One of the anomalies in the experiment was that the light "appeared" to have been teleported before it was actually sent. (This couldn't be verified because of the accuracy of the measurement devices at the time. It was an unexpected result. However, this is pure conjecture anyway).

This whole teleportation effect could be explained by somehow forcing the photons to actually travel faster than light (see experiment methodology). Given that the photons travelled faster than light it would appear that they reached their destination instantaneously or maybe even before they were sent. This would create the illusion of instantaneous teleportation. It would also probably point to some sort of a dimensional shift as according to Einstein it is not possible to exceed the speed of light within the physical parameters of our material universe. (Maybe the quantuum vacuum is involved - it generally is  :s2)

Therefore the solution to teleportation is to energetically excite the matter to be teleported and send it at greater than the speed of light to its destination so that it apparently arrives there just as it has been sent. The energy used to excite the matter is expended during travel and so the energy collapses back into material form at the destination. It is possible to pass through solid matter on the way as energy sent via the "teleportation", or more likely "matter transfer", process is subject to a dimensional shift into the quantuum vacuum. The quantuum vacuum is responsible for providing the majority of the energy for the transmission process. The initial input energy is merely the "activation" energy to initialise the quantuum teleportation effect and create the initial energy waveform from the source matter.

Blimey. Surprised myself there. I should start up my own website for genuine spinners of bullsh*t. You never know though, there may be some truth in it! But that's my own theory above there you know and you can just tell can't you?  ;D ;D ;D ;D ;D ;D

Cheers, Electro.

[Althalus]

also imagine if you were to teleport someone over any distance you would need to be able to store the pattern in something, before you teleport it so it knows how to put it back together again, the amount of computer memory that would take would be astronomical, due to the complexity of the task. for example scietists recently went and scanned a human in a CAT scanner and put each scan on the internet, now it was held at the time that if you were to go to the site and have a look then you would need broadband or an equivelent and at least a week where you did not need the computer, as it would be busy downloadiing it. and that was only a picture of it, try douing it with the real thing.