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    Steve Mayfield
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    Scientists succeed in teleporting information from one atom to another 3 feet away [^]

    Steve _________________ I C(++) therefore I am

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      Scientists succeed in teleporting information from one atom to another 3 feet away [^]

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      Baconbutty
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      Interesting, although reading how they did it I'm sure it would have been easier to just put the atom in a small bucket and carry it 3 feet :)

      My new favourite phrase - "misdirected leisure activity"

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        Scientists succeed in teleporting information from one atom to another 3 feet away [^]

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        Steve Echols
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        Theoretically, the particles could be an infinite distance apart, and viola! instant communication. No speed of light constraints! Wonder why they chose 1 meter, was it the size of the room? :)


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          Interesting, although reading how they did it I'm sure it would have been easier to just put the atom in a small bucket and carry it 3 feet :)

          My new favourite phrase - "misdirected leisure activity"

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          yeah but there was a hole in the only bucket they had...

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            Scientists succeed in teleporting information from one atom to another 3 feet away [^]

            Steve _________________ I C(++) therefore I am

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            Mladen Jankovic
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            We've still got a long way to go before human beings can be beamed from one place to another "Star Trek"-style... Ok, now I begin to feel like this[^]!

            [Genetic Algorithm Library]

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              We've still got a long way to go before human beings can be beamed from one place to another "Star Trek"-style... Ok, now I begin to feel like this[^]!

              [Genetic Algorithm Library]

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              Baconbutty
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              Good one.

              My new favourite phrase - "misdirected leisure activity"

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              • Steve EcholsS Steve Echols

                Theoretically, the particles could be an infinite distance apart, and viola! instant communication. No speed of light constraints! Wonder why they chose 1 meter, was it the size of the room? :)


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                MartinABooker
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                - and viola! - typo of the year so far for me :-D

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                  - and viola! - typo of the year so far for me :-D

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                  :laugh: Let me know if I win!


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                    Good one.

                    My new favourite phrase - "misdirected leisure activity"

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                    MartinABooker
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                    I love this stuff, really feels like we're getting somwhere with the whole teleportation thing doesn't it. Once again, science fact only a few years behind science fiction. Its also the very reason 'skynet' scares the crap outta me!

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                      Scientists succeed in teleporting information from one atom to another 3 feet away [^]

                      Steve _________________ I C(++) therefore I am

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                      Christian Graus
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                      If they ever have teleporters, no chance in hell I get in one.

                      Christian Graus Driven to the arms of OSX by Vista.

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                        If they ever have teleporters, no chance in hell I get in one.

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                        Is that for spiritual reasons, the whole 'what happens to the soul during transit' thing? Or just the whole being blown into millions of itty bitty pieces thing? :)

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                          If they ever have teleporters, no chance in hell I get in one.

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                          Paul Unsworth
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                          You'll be alright if there's no flies on you... ;)

                          oooo, the Jedi's will feel this one....

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                            If they ever have teleporters, no chance in hell I get in one.

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                            Chicken....bawk, bawk, bawk!


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                              Scientists succeed in teleporting information from one atom to another 3 feet away [^]

                              Steve _________________ I C(++) therefore I am

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                              I find "teleport" one of the worst misnomer for that. But hey, "IN ZERO SECONDS!!!!!!" isn#t much better.

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                                If they ever have teleporters, no chance in hell I get in one.

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                                Stuart Dootson
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                                Definitely - they'll have software controlling them - and you just know the programmers were (the week before) posting on CP - URGENTZZZ HLP RQRD PLZ

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                                  yeah but there was a hole in the only bucket they had...

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                                  Caslen wrote:

                                  but there was a hole in the only bucket they had

                                  Then patch it, dear Caslen. Dear Caslen, patch it.

                                  Henry Minute Do not read medical books! You could die of a misprint. - Mark Twain Girl: (staring) "Why do you need an icy cucumber?" “I want to report a fraud. The government is lying to us all.”

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                                    Theoretically, the particles could be an infinite distance apart, and viola! instant communication. No speed of light constraints! Wonder why they chose 1 meter, was it the size of the room? :)


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                                    Steve Echols wrote:

                                    Wonder why they chose 1 meter

                                    they're measuring for metric system

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                                      If they ever have teleporters, no chance in hell I get in one.

                                      Christian Graus Driven to the arms of OSX by Vista.

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                                      I teleported home one night With Ron and Sid and Meg. Ron stole Meggie's heart away And I got Sidney's leg.

                                      "A Journey of a Thousand Rest Stops Begins with a Single Movement"

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                                        Is that for spiritual reasons, the whole 'what happens to the soul during transit' thing? Or just the whole being blown into millions of itty bitty pieces thing? :)

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                                        John M Drescher
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                                        MartinABooker wrote:

                                        Or just the whole being blown into millions of itty bitty pieces thing?

                                        Although I am a religious person, this part scares me a lot more than worrying about the soul. [EDIT]Now when I think of it would you feel this?[/EDIT]

                                        John

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                                        • S Steve Mayfield

                                          Scientists succeed in teleporting information from one atom to another 3 feet away [^]

                                          Steve _________________ I C(++) therefore I am

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                                          Maybe I'm the only one who misunderstands quantum entanglement here, but how is this in anyway teleportation, or even communication? I thought that when two atoms where entangled, when you observe one, and then the other, you will both see the same thing. However, because you cannot influence the measured result, you cannot communicate. Furthermore, because you don't know when one has been measured, even if the collapse of the wave function happens instantaneously, a message using standard, slower than light communication would need to be transmitted. In other words, entanglement lets you see a random value, with the (amazing) catch that someone with the other particle will see the same random value, when they look.

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