Scientists teleport an "object"

[fitzov]

http://www.gizmodo.com/gadgets/gadgets/...-a-hunk-of-matter-18-inches-205448.php

This article seems to have a little more flesh on it:
http://www.cnn.com/2006/TECH/science/10/04/teleportation.reut/index.html

from the article:

Until now scientists have teleported similar objects such as light or single atoms over short distances from one spot to another in a split second.

But Professor Eugene Polzik and his team at the Niels Bohr Institute at Copenhagen University in Denmark have made a breakthrough by using both light and matter.

"It is one step further because for the first time it involves teleportation between light and matter, two different objects. One is the carrier of information and the other one is the storage medium," Polzik explained in an interview on Wednesday.

The experiment involved for the first time a macroscopic atomic object containing thousands of billions of atoms. They also teleported the information a distance of half a meter but believe it can be extended further.

 

[mwmorph]

awesome, now we need live material testing, maybe start with a dandelion.

 

[Slammy1]

No they didn't, they just coupled quantum states. Not that it isn't cool and raises lots of questions about the nature of the universe, maybe some cool ways of communication, but they didn't actually "transport an object".

 

[ForumMaster]

i won't be impressed until they transport something like genetic code and get it right. what they did do might improve computer technology cause instead of having to download a file, it will just be there instantly.

 

[uberman]

From the picture it looks like they're transporting a landing party, complete with tricorders.

 

[swtethan]

Originally posted by: uberman
From the picture it looks like they're transporting a landing party, complete with tricorders.

set to stun?

 

[dxkj]

What an impressive article, I am TOTALLY convinced about this. :roll:

 

[JLGatsby]

Originally posted by: mwmorph
awesome, now we need live material testing, maybe start with a dandelion.

Yeah, because a dandelion is "small" in scientific terms. :roll:

 

[sswingle]

Awesome. Its progress at least.

 

[EngenZerO]

wow... sounds like timeline from crichton... gah.

 

[mwmorph]

Originally posted by: JLGatsby

Originally posted by: mwmorph
awesome, now we need live material testing, maybe start with a dandelion.

Yeah, because a dandelion is "small" in scientific terms. :roll:

compared to a human or even a genmeric white mouse, yes. It has vastly fewer genes, no central nurveous system and if you fvck up 11ty billion times, no one will protest.

 

[Vegitto]

Originally posted by: mwmorph

Originally posted by: JLGatsby

Originally posted by: mwmorph
awesome, now we need live material testing, maybe start with a dandelion.

Yeah, because a dandelion is "small" in scientific terms. :roll:

compared to a human or even a genmeric white mouse, yes. It has vastly fewer genes, no central nurveous system and if you fvck up 11ty billion times, no one will protest.

Except vegans and stuff. I'd say, try it with a bacteria or a single cell.

 

[JLGatsby]

Originally posted by: mwmorph
compared to a human or even a genmeric white mouse, yes. It has vastly fewer genes, no central nurveous system and if you fvck up 11ty billion times, no one will protest.

They need to master teleporting things much smaller than what they eye can see before they teleport something that big.

Teleporting someone visible to the human eye is still 30 - 50 years away.

 

[ajf3]

Hmm... Philotic Web?

 

[Kaido]

Yeah, what's up with not saying *what* they teleported? :Q

 

[FelixDeCat]

Heck with transporters. We need replicators!


1. "Tea. Earl Gray. Hot!"

2. "Gold Bullion. 50lbs. Shiney!"

3. "Jessica Alba. Naked. Hot!"


:shocked:

 

[FusionKnight]

Originally posted by: FelixDeKat
Heck with transporters. We need replicators!


1. "Tea. Earl Gray. Hot!"

2. "Gold Bullion. 50lbs. Shiney!"

3. "Jessica Alba. Naked. Hot!"


:shocked:

Hells YES!

FK

 

[lyssword]

/set object *jalba*
replicate ++
++jalba
*infinity*
/happy

 

[halik]

Originally posted by: Slammy1
No they didn't, they just coupled quantum states. Not that it isn't cool and raises lots of questions about the nature of the universe, maybe some cool ways of communication, but they didn't actually "transport an object".

QFT

Entangled particles don't "Travel" they change states instanteneously...

 

[conehead433]

Let's try it on Kirk first. HeHe.

 

[RossMAN]

Originally posted by: FelixDeKat
Heck with transporters. We need replicators!


1. "Tea. Earl Gray. Hot!"

2. "Gold Bullion. 50lbs. Shiney!"

3. "Jessica Alba. Naked. Hot!"


:shocked:

4. "Staples $500 off $500 coupon"

 

[everman]

Originally posted by: FelixDeKat
Heck with transporters. We need replicators!


1. "Tea. Earl Gray. Hot!"

2. "Gold Bullion. 50lbs. Shiney!"

3. "Jessica Alba. Naked. Hot!"


:shocked:

Ya it sure worked out well for the Ancients :disgust: We'd end up being defeated by a giant clone army of Naked Albas drinking Earl Gray.

 

[opticalmace]

How are they able to create entanglement?

 

[E equals MC2]

Originally posted by: everman

Originally posted by: FelixDeKat
Heck with transporters. We need replicators!


1. "Tea. Earl Gray. Hot!"

2. "Gold Bullion. 50lbs. Shiney!"

3. "Jessica Alba. Naked. Hot!"


:shocked:

Ya it sure worked out well for the Ancients :disgust: We'd end up being defeated by a giant clone army of Naked Albas drinking Earl Gray.

Throwing pounds of Bullions at anyone that stands in their way.

 

[Slammy1]

Entanglement

Gah! Statistical thermodynamics flashbacks.

EDIT:"There is no transfer of matter or energy involved. Alice's particle has not been physically moved to Bob; only its state has been transferred. The term "teleportation", coined by Bennett et al., reflects the indistinguishability of quantum mechanical particles"