Still Waters Posted December 19, 2010 #1 Share Posted December 19, 2010 Thanks to physics, and the truly bizarre quirks of quarks, those Star Trek style teleporters may be more than fiction. A strange discovery by quantum physicists at the University of California Santa Barbara means that an object you can see in front of you may exist simultaneously in a parallel universe -- a multi-state condition that has scientists theorizing that teleportation or even time travel may be much more than just the plaything of science fiction writers. Until this year, all human-made objects have moved according to the laws of classical mechanics, the rules governing ordinary objects. Toss a ball in the air and it falls back to Earth. Drop a coin from your roof and it falls into your yard. But back in March, a group of researchers designed a gadget that moves in ways that can only be described by quantum mechanics -- the set of rules that governs the behavior of tiny things like molecules, atoms, and subatomic particles. And the implication -- that teleportation and even time travel may someday, somehow be a reality -- is so groundbreaking that Science magazine has labelled it the most significant scientific advance of 2010. Read more... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
StarMountainKid Posted December 19, 2010 #2 Share Posted December 19, 2010 Manipulating macro objects by altering their quantum states. A lot of possibilities there. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
xYlvax Posted December 19, 2010 #3 Share Posted December 19, 2010 Interesting future possibilies. I can't wait to see what they'll do with this. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
d e v i c e Posted December 20, 2010 #4 Share Posted December 20, 2010 Interesting indeed. See, I wonder whose millitary will be the first to get their hands on one. They could just quickly teleport a hit squad into the offices of any...oh i can't go on. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Belial Posted December 20, 2010 #5 Share Posted December 20, 2010 As long as it stops buttered toast hitting the floor butterside down, i'm all for it Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
keenu Posted December 20, 2010 #6 Share Posted December 20, 2010 I'm not so sure that existing simultaneously in alternate realities equals actual travel. I think we exist in all our probable realities right here...and right now. Maybe they have found proof of this. Since we exist in all places right now it would only be a matter of focus to "time travel"...right? Isn't this how quantum particles work...they only change when consciousness observes them? Then that would make perfect sense. Any one else of the same thought? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
user107026 Posted December 20, 2010 #7 Share Posted December 20, 2010 STAR TREK TELOPORTATION IS A PHYSICAL IMPOSSIBILITY IT WILL NEVER BE POSSIBLE IT'S ABSURD TO EVEN MENTION IT Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
trancelikestate Posted December 20, 2010 #8 Share Posted December 20, 2010 STAR TREK TELOPORTATION IS A PHYSICAL IMPOSSIBILITY IT WILL NEVER BE POSSIBLE IT'S ABSURD TO EVEN MENTION IT the idea of flying humans was absurd at one time. And actually there's good theory of how to transport physcial objects, were just not quite there scientifically yet but you see. If not I'm sure one of your ancestors will. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mfrmboy Posted December 20, 2010 #9 Share Posted December 20, 2010 It would be so awsome to just teleport to your destination. No traffic ! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
trancelikestate Posted December 20, 2010 #10 Share Posted December 20, 2010 It would be so awsome to just teleport to your destination. No traffic ! people would get so fat and lazy. Half of americans are already obese, walking to mcdonalds is the only exercise they get. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
questionmark Posted December 20, 2010 #11 Share Posted December 20, 2010 Well guys, did you look at the source? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ripperking Posted December 20, 2010 #12 Share Posted December 20, 2010 Cool article, very interesting to see what the science world has been up to this year! Next year should be promising as well!! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Prab Posted December 20, 2010 #13 Share Posted December 20, 2010 the idea of flying humans was absurd at one time. And actually there's good theory of how to transport physcial objects, were just not quite there scientifically yet but you see. If not I'm sure one of your ancestors will. Teleporting living cells will remain an issue I think in this case but if they are ever successful in teleporting humans(alive )then many things would come into question like concepts like soul and ghosts(coz no soul no ghost ). Personally I don't think that this would ever be possible. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mentalcase Posted December 20, 2010 #14 Share Posted December 20, 2010 (edited) Edit; All of the video segments from that interview are on the upper right side of the main page for this video. Interesting interview, as always with Kaku. Edited December 20, 2010 by Mentalcase Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
FlyingAngel Posted December 20, 2010 #15 Share Posted December 20, 2010 Teleportation might be possible but time travel will never be, at least in the same realm. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
user107026 Posted December 20, 2010 #16 Share Posted December 20, 2010 the idea of flying humans was absurd at one time. And actually there's good theory of how to transport physcial objects, were just not quite there scientifically yet but you see. If not I'm sure one of your ancestors will. flying humans what kind of drugs are you on i want some lol Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
user107026 Posted December 20, 2010 #17 Share Posted December 20, 2010 they want a real scientific breakthrough it's intelligent design Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
StarMountainKid Posted December 20, 2010 #18 Share Posted December 20, 2010 A little more in-depth explanation of the experiment can be found here, http://www.sciencemag.org/content/330/6011/1604.short although you have to regester free to read it, but it's still not a through explanation of the engineering methods of teleportation. From my previous understanding, what is teleported is information of the quantum state(s) of the object using entanglement. I don't quite understand how this new experiment relates to this. Another method is to gather all the quantum information of a person's brain, upload this information into a quantum computer, and send this information to another quantum computer on Mars, say, download it into an alive dummy human body, and when that body wakes up after this process it would have that person's mind. Then it could do what it needs to do on Mars, the process is reversed erasing the information from the dummy's mind, and that information downloaded back into the original person's brain, and that original person would have all the memories of the experiences of the dummy on Mars. This way, all that would be needed is to place dummys and automated quantum computers on Mars, and we wouldn't have to wast time and energy physically traveling back and forth. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mentalcase Posted December 20, 2010 #19 Share Posted December 20, 2010 Like an Avatar.. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
xXHellkittiesXx Posted December 21, 2010 #20 Share Posted December 21, 2010 Time travel has not been invented in my lifetime, I would have come back by now with some winning lotto numbers. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BlazzedAzz Posted December 21, 2010 #21 Share Posted December 21, 2010 once i went back to 1992 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
delino98 Posted December 21, 2010 #22 Share Posted December 21, 2010 (edited) I no its just movies but i dont think we should mess around with time travel. once we finished a moment in time we should leave it be. messing with time could cause a ripple in time like the movies show. it seems logical. I means its sound cool but we should be messing with things we shouldnt be messin with lol=D Edited December 21, 2010 by delino98 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
27vet Posted December 21, 2010 #23 Share Posted December 21, 2010 Up yours TSA, I'm not traveling by plane anymore Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
FlyingAngel Posted December 22, 2010 #24 Share Posted December 22, 2010 Time travel has not been invented in my lifetime, I would have come back by now with some winning lotto numbers. It doesn't work like that. Anything happened happened. If you can go back in time, you can only jump into a parallele universe and change the other "you"'s life. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Chooky88 Posted December 26, 2010 #25 Share Posted December 26, 2010 1992? BlazedAzz, I remember that year, dull as dishwater. Sureley there are more interesting years to travel to? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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