Sending information @ 3E8 m/s! MUST READ.

[RESmonkey]

http://www.newscientist.com/ch...r&nsref=mg19426085.800

That article got me hyped up. Of course, before anyone even thinks of using this as a teleportation device, think of the more practical usage (it's more of sending information, not exactly matter). A massive amount of data can be sent (depending on the senders and receiver density)...and received at t3h sp33d 0f l1ghtz.

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If anyone ever thinks of sending mixed data (of differing atoms)...that would be hard. Nearly impossible...you'd have to scale the senders and receivers to match the matter going in (body atoms line up, etc.). Not impossible, but just reaaaaalllllyyyy close to it.

 

[Idontcare]

Your thread title states matter transportation...when the linked article clearly shows they are not transporting matter, but rather merely transporting information regarding the quantum state of the matter as observed on the sender's side.

The matter that exists on the receiver's side had to exist there all along; it was never teleported, merely reorganized to have the exact same quantum state as the matter observed on the sender's side.

This is different from the teleportation of matter we all like to envision wherein matter spontaneously coalesces from the energy field (photons naturally, speed of light) used to transport the information.

The scientists in the article employ the EMF merely as a means to communicate information to the receiver whereupon the receiver is re-fabricating the quantum state of prior existing matter, not re-fabricating matter itself.

Still cool and will be useful someday no doubt...but the article title actually says it all: "Teleportation, but not as we know it"

 

[RESmonkey]

True, it is not the unique piece of matter, but an exact* clone of the same properties.


*= Who knows if it's exact? Who knows if similar atoms are even similar? Maybe 2 pieces of gold atom that are similar to us are completely different in the string world...(This is just a stupid bit of info I had to add. Ignore this line.)

 

[RESmonkey]

Nevertheless, topic edited. TY

 

[Nathelion]

Teleportation or not, it could certainly be useful...someday...maybe.