Teleportation is here!

[Access Denied]

Well, sort of. This is old news but apparently I've been living in a cave for 13 years and have only just found out. Back in 1997 scientists successfully teleported a single Photon. Now of course a Photon is a sub-atomic particle so just a wee bit smaller than you and me. However there's nothing that says the size of the object to be teleported is limited. The only thing that's stopping it happening now is technology. Not only would every particle of your body have to be measured and sent at exactly the same time but even sending it down the best broadband lines available today it would take 15 thousand, million years.

Still, beam me up Scotty!

 

[Moriath]

Glen

lol

 

[Exioce]

Not gonna happen according to Brian Greene
Good book btw

 

[Ctuchik]

Well, sort of. This is old news but apparently I've been living in a cave for 13 years and have only just found out. Back in 1997 scientists successfully teleported a single Photon. Now of course a Photon is a sub-atomic particle so just a wee bit smaller than you and me. However there's nothing that says the size of the object to be teleported is limited. The only thing that's stopping it happening now is technology. Not only would every particle of your body have to be measured and sent at exactly the same time but even sending it down the best broadband lines available today it would take 15 thousand, million years.

Still, beam me up Scotty!

yeah good luck trying to sort out a humans jigsaw puzzle and assemble it right on the other end.

it just wont be possible, at least not on living things such as humans and animals. might might be possible with steel crates and the likes tho...

 

[Talyn]

From what I understand it's not teleportation like Star Trek. It made an exact 'copy' of the photon, but destroyed the original in the process.

Kind of like making a clone of yourself, but both of you can't exist at the same time, so the 'older' version dies.

Something like that anyway...

 

[Lamp]

Teleportation
Lightsabers
Blasters / Ray runs
Forcefields
Light speed spaceship travel
Cryogenic freezing & unfreezing of humans after 250,000 years

all technically impossible and way beyond our ability at the moment, and are therefore enjoyed in the fantasy world of science fiction. Maybe, just maybe, in 5,000 years we might be advanced enough to develop stuff like this. But thats assuming the human race doesn't blow itself up & governments continue to fund projects such as Cerne

 

[Ch3tan]

Erm, pretty sure the US has shown off laser gun tech, and forcefield tech. Also some pretty cool stuff with invisibility.

 

[Lamp]

laser guns & forcefields? post links.

 

[Ch3tan]

Anti-aircraft laser demo video - Boing Boing

google that, lots more on it.

and this is old, but still YouTube - TROPHY: Anti RPG Technology Demo

They are working on this kind of stuff, and its only a matter of time before power sources are such that the lasers will be handheld, not ship mounted.

 

[kirennia]

If it has to be sent at the exact same time, we've got to look towards quantum physics being a proven reality before it's possible. If it is however, you can be sure that number will drop drastically...

I think it was estimated that a 32kb quantum processor would have the capacity to crack every single password ever created on a modern machine within a second; theoretically it could take less then zero seconds but science still hasn't properly gotten it's head around this...

Until then however, even if you apply Moores law, the current standard of computers would never be able to complete a task instantly. Still, 15 billion years = 47304 * 10^13 I think, therefore it'd be ~88 years before it'll take under a second to teleport that amount of data... in theory...

 

[Raven]

Don't forget Big Dog.

YouTube - The latest version of the LittleDog Robot

YouTube - BigDog Overview (Updated March 2010)

 

[Talyn]

Don't forget Big Dog.

YouTube - The latest version of the LittleDog Robot

YouTube - BigDog Overview (Updated March 2010)

Someone watched the Gadget Show last Monday...

 

[pikeh]

that big dog thing is fucking terrifying, but amazing nonetheless.

 

[Dukat]

laser guns & forcefields? post links.

ABL !

YouTube - Airborne Laser ABL Executive Update 2008 Boeing 747 YAL-1
(old report - has since been tested successfully)

 

[DocWolfe]

ABL !

YouTube - Airborne Laser ABL Executive Update 2008 Boeing 747 YAL-1
(old report - has since been tested successfully)

That video reminded me of the commercials to become a citizen in starship troopers.

 

[Lamp]

Directed-energy weapon - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia