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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

I dont care. I want a flying car more

MattSullivan wrote:I dont care.

Then dont post.

Ah this is interesting indeed lol We got into a discussion about teleporting in pack chat alot lol How if someone actually made a real teleporter the gov would surely take it lol But wow I love the idea that they have actually have done this at all

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?

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.

RedEye wrote:It means that Parallel Universes may well exist, and there might be ways of accessing them...if you're a Photon....

Yeah, I've known that they exist for quite a while.

Coolness. This makes my inner science geek very happy.

that is really interesting.....even if it was "just" a beam of light....but it is a start i think

Set wrote:Coolness. This makes my inner science geek very happy.

Oh, thanks for making me regret mentioning those frogs even more.





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.

Set said she did not see the point in creating see through frogs and not necessarily the point in you posting the topic.

Could be a space fold--in that case, there's no between space to traverse. Of course, it means yanking the fabric of space-time. If lots of beings are doing it at the same time, the fabric of space-time could get pretty frayed.

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?

You used the wrong emoticon. It gives a very different emotion.

This vs. . Very different meaning. I apologize.

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.

great, another way to completely ditch ALL of our current physics theories...


On the subject of the article though, they had somehting only a few months ago on this subject in Scientific American.

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?

Scott Gardener wrote:There's also a new postulation that time travel might be possible using a rapidly rotating light beam.

The second they create that I think my mind might explode.