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Flux
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posted 06-17-2004 04:34 PM

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/science/nature/3811785.stm?session=SvSBFJrshv3Pytovmquv66ePir

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The Jakeman
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posted 06-17-2004 07:06 PM

I was hoping it was like Star Trek transporters with matter - energy conversion. It looks to be more on par with copying a thing onto existing matter than transporting that thing.

Or maybe I am too stupid to understand.

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Acid
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posted 06-17-2004 11:30 PM

Yeah. I want to teleport to Hef's pad. Shine that shit on me !

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FS
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posted 06-18-2004 11:47 AM

If my body would be transformed to pure energy, it would be the equivalent of about ten thousand 20 kiloton explosions (*).

But even disregarding that, matter<->energy teleportation isn't going to be around too soon, if ever

(* unless I got my math terribly wrong)

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Wow, I can't believe I'm agreeing with FS on this one

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WillyTrombone
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posted 06-18-2004 12:41 PM

if you weigh 180, it's actually about 90000 20 kiloton bombs. 10000 20 kiloton bombs would correspond to about 20 pounds of lost mass.

as for the teleportation, it's much more useful for communications. Entanglement is what makes quantum encryption work. Except with a particle like an atom (and I don't know if this is the goal of the project) it is a lot easier to store and carry the entangled particle, and it might lead to a two way entanglement signal carrier. If you want to compare it to star trek technology, it's more like subspace communication in that that the entangled particles are tied to each other in such a way that information is shared between them instanenously.

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FS
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