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And then they learned to teleport...
Scientists have successfully teleported a beam of light.
Dont get too excited. They're far off from teleporting you anywhere. But its still interesting! Here's the article:
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/sci/tech/2049048.stm
Dont get too excited. They're far off from teleporting you anywhere. But its still interesting! Here's the article:
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/sci/tech/2049048.stm
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I wonder...as a Physics-type of person, I learned about the teleportaiton effect back when it was just a lab curiosity.
A Photon is to your bodymass as you are to the Milky Way galaxy...so personal teleport is still a long way off.
What's interesting is a parallel theory to this teleportation experiment: that this "Teleportation" is actually moving the photons from this universe into another universe, and then back out, as their energy degrades.
Either way, this is a very interesting development, since it contradicts one of Einstein's theories: that in a given number of points along a path must always be traversed to get from point A to point B.
While that may not do much for you folks, it really makes my toes curl. It means that Parallel Universes may well exist, and there might be ways of accessing them...if you're a Photon....
Oh Well, it's still interesting.
A Photon is to your bodymass as you are to the Milky Way galaxy...so personal teleport is still a long way off.
What's interesting is a parallel theory to this teleportation experiment: that this "Teleportation" is actually moving the photons from this universe into another universe, and then back out, as their energy degrades.
Either way, this is a very interesting development, since it contradicts one of Einstein's theories: that in a given number of points along a path must always be traversed to get from point A to point B.
While that may not do much for you folks, it really makes my toes curl. It means that Parallel Universes may well exist, and there might be ways of accessing them...if you're a Photon....
Oh Well, it's still interesting.
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Oh, thanks for making me regret mentioning those frogs even more.Set wrote:Coolness. This makes my inner science geek very happy.
In any case, this is a really old article (2002), and there's been no word as of yet about its progress. Maybe if it's finally perfected, they can transport miners to forage diamonds off that planet with diamondtopia underneath the surface they showed in the news ages back. But ever since seeing pictures of HAL-5, i'm having my doubts.
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Set said she did not see the point in creating see through frogs and not necessarily the point in you posting the topic.
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You used the wrong emoticon. It gives a very different emotion.MattSullivan wrote:Pay attention Moonkit. The "I don't care" was meant to be a quippy preface to "I want flying cars" YSee the whimsical wolf sticking his tongue out?
This vs. . Very different meaning. I apologize.
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Still a bit on-thread...
I've been reading about something else that counters Einstein: Researchers have for years been troublend by the fact that radio waves seem to accelerate inside of certain substances; exiting them well before they should. If that's still being worked on, then the Lightspeed Limit may well go the way of the Sound Barrier.
The info is a few years old (I was clearing out my shelves-Okay?) but according to the article; it appears that these redio waves exceeded the relative speed of light-inside a solid, and by a very respectable margin.
Warp Speed, anyone? You KNOW we'll do it, someday.
I've been reading about something else that counters Einstein: Researchers have for years been troublend by the fact that radio waves seem to accelerate inside of certain substances; exiting them well before they should. If that's still being worked on, then the Lightspeed Limit may well go the way of the Sound Barrier.
The info is a few years old (I was clearing out my shelves-Okay?) but according to the article; it appears that these redio waves exceeded the relative speed of light-inside a solid, and by a very respectable margin.
Warp Speed, anyone? You KNOW we'll do it, someday.
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There's also a new postulation that time travel might be possible using a rapidly rotating light beam. Granted, you can only go as far back as the moment someone first invents one, but it's a start. Let's see if the Trekkies can beat the Dr. Who fans.
I wonder what would happen if one teleported the time machine?
I wonder what would happen if one teleported the time machine?
Taking a Gestalt approach, since it's the "in" thing...