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Re: Scientists Demonstrate Teleportation with Atom
Posted By: Steve LevinsonDate: 6/17/04 3:14 p.m.

In Response To: Re: Scientists Demonstrate Teleportation with Atom (Enkidu)

: There's also the kinetic energy transfer problems addressed by Niven in
: Playgrounds of the Mind , IIRC. (Yes, it was collected from somewhere else
: but I can't remember from where for the life of me.)

: -- Steve is trapped at work, far away from his research resources.

See some of the posts below. Wow, it's interesting where this thread has brought us. First of all, I don't think that any of us are expert enough to fully understand the process. The overall point of the announcement today was that scientists were able to bring about a quantum swap of two atoms - i.e. the two atoms exchanged their quantum states. The nice thing about quantum tunneling - something that has long been known to be possible - is that there is no need to violate the uncertainty principle. We never really interrogate the quantum states of the atoms involved - i.e. we don't actually need to measure or deconstruct anything. The big problem is that if you even could scale the process up to transfer an entire person, you would need a duplicate "blank" twin at the other end with identical atoms with which to exchange quantum states. Thus you would still need to transmit a hell of a lot of information from which to assemble your double. No need to worry about whether the new, transported you is really you - quantum exchange would make this irrelevant. I don't know if this would ever be possible, but my hope is that rather than using a duplicate person at the receiving end, you could use some sort of innert undifferentiated matter - stem matter if you will - that would take the form of the transmitted individual in the quantum process. Likewise, your former self would revert to undifferentiated matter at the transmitting end. It's fun to speculate . . .

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Scientists Demonstrate Teleportation with AtomsSteve Levinson 6/17/04 4:43 a.m.
     Re: Scientists Demonstrate Teleportation with AtomBill 6/17/04 7:18 a.m.
           Re: Scientists Demonstrate Teleportation with AtomForrest of B.org 6/17/04 8:19 a.m.
                 Re: Scientists Demonstrate Teleportation with AtomMark Levin 6/17/04 10:26 a.m.
                       Re: Scientists Demonstrate Teleportation with AtomBob-B-Q 6/17/04 10:34 a.m.
                       Re: Scientists Demonstrate Teleportation with AtomEnkidu 6/17/04 11:16 a.m.
                             Re: Scientists Demonstrate Teleportation with AtomSteve Levinson 6/17/04 3:14 p.m.
                       Re: Scientists Demonstrate Teleportation with AtomForrest of B.org 6/17/04 11:17 a.m.
                       Re: Scientists Demonstrate Teleportation with AtomErnie 6/17/04 11:32 a.m.
                             Re: Scientists Demonstrate Teleportation with AtomMe_43 6/17/04 11:44 a.m.
                             Re: Scientists Demonstrate Teleportation with Atomukimalefu 6/17/04 12:01 p.m.
                             Re: Scientists Demonstrate Teleportation with AtomTraxis_Spawn 6/18/04 3:30 a.m.
                                   Re: Scientists Demonstrate Teleportation with Atomgoran 6/18/04 4:56 a.m.
                                         sorry, wrong name.goran 6/18/04 4:59 a.m.
                 Re: Scientists Demonstrate Teleportation with AtomMe_43 6/17/04 11:35 a.m.
                       Re: Scientists Demonstrate Teleportation with AtomForrest of B.org 6/17/04 12:44 p.m.
     Fascinating . . . But i'm not gonna be . . . .Jäger 6/17/04 1:43 p.m.
           I don't want to end up as an android's cat.Bill 6/17/04 4:14 p.m.
                 Re: I don't want to end up as an android's cat.ukimalefu 6/17/04 8:35 p.m.
                       10 Inventions You're Not Supposed To Know Aboutukimalefu 6/17/04 8:51 p.m.
                             Re: 10 Inventions You're Not Supposed To Know AbouJäger 6/18/04 8:50 a.m.
                 Re: I don't want to end up as an android's cat.Traxis_Spawn 6/18/04 3:39 a.m.
                       Re: I don't want to end up as an android's cat.Steve Levinson 6/18/04 6:15 a.m.
                             Re: I don't want to end up as an android's cat.Traxis_Spawn 6/18/04 9:11 p.m.
     I want to be the first human test subject! :D *NM*D-M.A. 6/18/04 4:50 a.m.

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