Beam me up scotty...

[Ch3tan]

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/sci/tech/3811785.stm

 

[old.Tohtori]

Bloody nerds...

They invent teleportation just to make "Mah DAoC run fastah!!!1"

 

[Whipped]

I thought this thread was going to annouce the death of James Doohan.

 

[Frizz]

Essentially, what it means for computing and communication is that the transfer of data would be extremely fast - potentially trillions of times faster - and secure, using encryption techniques that are unbreakable.

*Is reminded of Starforce 3*

 

[dysfunction]

No such thing as unbreakable encryption....its like saying a ship is unsinkable

I'll probably be long dead before they start teleporting people.

 

[Jonaldo]

Isn't it true that Kirk never actually said "Beam me up Scotty"? or perhaps only ever in one episode?

 

[SAS]

He never said the words "beam me up scotty". Just used variations of it like "Scotty, beam me up".

 

[Whipped]

Isn't it true that Kirk never actually said "Beam me up Scotty"? or perhaps only ever in one episode?

Correct.

*Hands Jonaldo a geek badge*

 

[Jonaldo]

He never said the words "beam me up scotty". Just used variations of it like "Scotty, beam me up".

Called him 'Mr Scott' I believe *gets anorak*


(by the way I'm not actually a huge Star Trek fan)

 

[Paradroid]

Surely this type of transportation (similar to the Star trek method), is merely an insta-clone making machine? Take the original, record and destroy it, then (in a far-away location) replicate matter with the same attributes as the original?!? The main thing being the speed at which the information moves....qauntum = instant ?!?

I think I'd prefer the wormhole/bending-space route myself, for holi-bags etc.

 

[TdC]

I concur. I'd rather pop through spacetime than die to be cloned. even if they clone accurate to within a billion billionth of a percent there's still a bit of me that would die forever

 

[Cyradix]

If we are going Star Trek.... what about the Heisenberg Uncertainty Principle

 

[Tilda]

If we are going Star Trek.... what about the Heisenberg Uncertainty Principle

Thats what they have Heisenberg Compensators for !

 

[Whipped]

And as they pointed out to one fan that wrote to the writers asking how they work, "They work very well thank you" Class!

 

[Athan]

No such thing as unbreakable encryption....its like saying a ship is unsinkable

Well, yes and no. There are current buyable systems out there that make use of quantum entanglement for key exchange, but the speed is a bit slow, hence it only being used for the key exchange. You then use those keys over a normal link to encyrpt the data.
This of course means that someone COULD brute-force the key, so it's 'breakable', but you just pull the normal "large enough key" tricks there so it's highly unlikely.

About the key exchange, it CAN theoretically be intercepted, but the point is you'll KNOW it was, and thus throw away the keys before even using them.

They are, of course, working the speed up on the devices so as to be able to just send the normal data over them and thus as soon as you detect an eavesdropper you stop sending any more data. This makes it vulnerable to a DoS of course .

Now the REAL thing to worry about is quantum computers in the future as they may well allow for very quickly breaking the keys of current encyrption schemes. We may end up back to using one time pads as the only guaranteed encryption, but then you're stuck with the problem of getting the OTPs to the two locations that need to use them.

-Ath, not an encyrption geek, but does keep an eye on it

 

[Danya]

No such thing as unbreakable encryption....its like saying a ship is unsinkable

I'll probably be long dead before they start teleporting people.

Yes there is - it's called one-time pad, it's provably unbreakable. It's not even particularly new. Main problem is it's a real pain to setup and use.

 

[TdC]

one-time cyphers 4 teh win!!1