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Teleportation: is my dream about to come true?

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If I could have one superpower, it would be teleportation. I have always wished I could make myself go from one place to another in an instant.

It seems that in the last few years, physicists working independently in Austria, Australia and Denmark have all achieved a form of teleportation at the quantum level of atoms and photons. Finally, teleportation is being looked at as a serious scientific possibility.

I know. It does not look like teleportation on a human level is anything I will actually live to see, or anything that might ever actually come to fruition. Nonetheless, I think the concept of “quantum teleportation” is fascinating.

It involves two separate particles acting like they are one and the same, even though they are separated by distance. Changes to one particle will be mirrored in the other. It might not ever move to the human level, but it has a huge impact on the world of computing. In fact, I may perhaps live to see a quantum computer that moves information at the sped of light.

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Comment by Pfunk
2007-10-11 23:02:56

You know I have to crack on you…

the ’sped’ of light.

that’s all i can say.

what with this and the time travel gig i’ve got brewin’…i really want to get in touch with michio kaku…well,you know that i want to meet him anyway…

 
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