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10/05/2006

Scientists Teleport Two Objects

That's right, a group of physicists from the University of Denmark have managed to teleport "information from light to matter -- involved for the first time a macroscopic atomic object containing thousands of billions of atoms." What are your thoughts?
They also teleported the information a distance of half a meter but believe it can be extended further. "Our method allows teleportation to be taken over longer distances because it involves light as the carrier of entanglement," he added
[via Gizmodo - CNN]

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Posted at 10/05/2006 12:36pm by pookpooi
I can't believe it's real. Maybe they compress object and move them with data link.
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Posted at 10/05/2006 12:49pm by Teleportion Breakthrough - bLavish
[...] Wow.  Are we going to be all Star Trek soon?  CNN goes on to report, “They also teleported the information a distance of half a meter but believe it can be extended further. ‘Our method allows teleportation to be taken over longer distances because it involves light as the carrier of entanglement.’” [...]
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Posted at 10/05/2006 12:51pm by john
teletport me now to heaven!!!
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Posted at 10/05/2006 1:24pm by legend85
i dont think its real.....if its true then there are alot more importent things you can do with tech like that other then sending objects to another place......make copys of an object (solves the food problem) if you had extra matter make new objects
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Posted at 10/05/2006 1:46pm by Henrik
Well, this is a hoax. Teleporting single sub atomar objects like electrons & neutrons is possible by todays technology, BUT there is no way to demolecularize a complex object and transmit it's information to another place and rebuild it there. The amount of energy needed to perform such a teleport is very high (I guess a dozen MeV/kg matter), and you'll need a strong enough computer to record the state of every quark of the object in real time (there is not enough power for this on earth right now) and finally a system to build the object back togehter. This is pure SciFi and will not be availible in our, our childrens or our children's children livetime. Where is the scientific article about this experiment?
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Posted at 10/05/2006 1:47pm by Henrik
I meant MeW... not MeV...
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Posted at 10/05/2006 2:39pm by Alejandro Ley
At last.
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Posted at 10/05/2006 2:54pm by asdf
bullsh*t hoax.
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Posted at 10/05/2006 3:23pm by James
I have a glock if you really want a teleport to heaven.
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Posted at 10/05/2006 3:31pm by Adrian
They really need to start working on better power options. This fossil fuel is shit and chemical fuel is sh*t. Why can't they even make a laptop battery that lasts 100 hours. Alot more money needs to go into Power research.
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Posted at 10/05/2006 6:02pm by ShadowVlican
nice try "scientists"
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Posted at 10/05/2006 6:28pm by Primo
If this is true, then we are definitely on our way to Star Trek-like teleportation
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Posted at 10/05/2006 6:38pm by Crosby
You guys must learn to nerver take science as a universal fact. Everybody thought the earth was squared shape long ago and some were killed by those "scientist freak" as you. If you read the article on cnn website you"ll notice they said they use a different way to teleport atoms... todays facts may change overtime as we discover new theories, dont be such a skeptical troll, let the runner prove its claim before killing him...
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Posted at 10/05/2006 8:49pm by milomilomilo
This is absolutely a hoax. The teleportation of matter is essentially impossible due to the uncertainty principle(never being able to just an atoms precise postion in space). And even it it were done, it could never be any more than a replica of the origonal. transporting living matter will never happen, and if it does will never be allowed since it kills the individual and builds a copy of the person in another location.
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Posted at 10/05/2006 11:20pm by calgeiser
u say that it isnt possible due to todays computing power, but maybe they have discovered how to tap into quantom computing. also, u dont necessarily have to compute the data in real-time. if its a static object then i dont see why you couldnt compress it beforehand. then just before you actually do send it, 'scan' for minute changes. in theory, once sent, it should automatically decompress where you want it to, no extra computing needed.
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Posted at 10/05/2006 11:56pm by TheGuy
I dont get it, are they on crack?
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Posted at 10/06/2006 00:06am by Ben
This is awesome. My old college roommate and I had this discussion about teleporting stuff awhile ago. He said, and I quote, that "we can teleport an orange. Except it wouldn't come out an orange but nuclear death" Wonder when it will make the science journals...
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Posted at 10/06/2006 08:52am by Macaca
milomilomilo's comment "since it kills the individual and builds a copy of the person in another location" is filosofically quite interesting.. Is the object actually the same object after teleportation? What defines an object to be the same? Are the individual atoms (and the lot) defining an object? Or just the exact properties (position, charge, spin etc)? If one could make a device that make a snapshot of all properties, transmit that as regular data (albeit a bit larger then a video), and have a remote device impose these properties on a chunk of 'base'-matter, then in effect you have tele duplication. Then nullify or destroy the source object (to base material) and it's allmost teleportation. To amke it nice and smooth one needs terribly advanced tech, but that's not off-limit (just takes years to devellop), and lots of power (Which again isnt a real barrier).
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Posted at 10/06/2006 08:58am by Macaca
I want add to this: what's really going on in my previous post is like the serialisation and de-serialisation of Class Objects in computing: just record everything unique, transmit/store it, build a new object, impose the de-serialized data and there you go. That's different from 'real' teleportation, where (for as far as i can see) the matter itself is transmitted, which is very nice and techy, but to me as a webdeveloper it sounds like a in-efficient waste of resources and power.
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Posted at 10/06/2006 11:42am by Gabe
I believe that anything is possible. We just have to believe it. The reason why these technological advances take so long to come to be is that we as humans want proof. Everything has to be proven which means you have to be made to believe. Time travel, teleportation, levetation, all this is possible. You need to watch the show Heroes on NBC. Its true!!!
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Posted at 10/06/2006 4:10pm by Leooow
Thats absolutly awesome, star trek here we go:P
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Posted at 10/06/2006 8:24pm by rikkter
while it's awesome that they can do this and the possibilities are endless, thats what also is scary.
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Posted at 10/07/2006 5:32pm by chris
And there was me thinking that you could't even know it's postion and direction at the same time. which is surley something that would be required in recreating it.
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Posted at 10/07/2006 10:53pm by Henrik
The huges problem is the power needed for such a process. You'll need to break up all atomar and sub atomar bindings, in the core, in the hull, you even have to break up every single proton, neutron, electron into quarks. If you only think of the energy condensed in an atom of Oxigen, well you'll need several nuclear power plants to break up all bindings in a person of 80kg with a incredible huge amount of atoms... try to think of a little A-Bomb's energy to atomize someone. Wake up people, we will never live in a society like in the Star Trek's Federation. I guess we will end up as a bionicle species like the Borg with kybernetic uplinks to the Inet, brain controlled prothesics and medical nanites in our blood system to fight against diseases...
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Posted at 10/10/2006 1:43pm by Skip
You first.
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