Beam Me Up: 'Teleportation' Is Year's Biggest Breakthrough

Gerald · 12-17-10, 09:37 PM

Thanks to physics, and the truly bizarre quirks of quarks, those Star Trek style teleporters may be more than fiction. A strange discovery by quantum physicists at the University of California Santa Barbara means that an object you can see in front of you may exist simultaneously in a parallel universe -- a multi-state condition that has scientists theorizing that teleportation or even time travel may be much more than just the plaything of science fiction writers.Until this year, all human-made objects have moved according to the laws of classical mechanics, the rules governing ordinary objects. Toss a ball in the air and it falls back to Earth. Drop a coin from your roof and it falls into your yard. But back in March, a group of researchers designed a gadget that moves in ways that can only be described by quantum mechanics -- the set of rules that governs the behavior of tiny things like molecules, atoms, and subatomic particles.

http://www.foxnews.com/scitech/2010/...-breakthrough/

Note:Published December 17, 2010

Gerald · 12-17-10, 09:38 PM

Smooth, just what I need, to keep up with what should be done in the near future.

onelifecrisis · 12-17-10, 11:36 PM

Hmm. If time travel is possible, how come nobody has visited us from the future?

TLAM Strike · 12-17-10, 11:45 PM

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Originally Posted by onelifecrisis

Hmm. If time travel is possible, how come nobody has visited us from the future?

One explanation: by traveling in time the traveler creates a divergent reality to their own. No time traveler visits an existing reality and thus not creating a paradox, they can only visit the reality they created.

Jimbuna · 12-18-10, 04:58 AM

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Originally Posted by TLAM Strike

One explanation: by traveling in time the traveler creates a divergent reality to their own. No time traveler visits an existing reality and thus not creating a paradox, they can only visit the reality they created.

Ah, that explains it then

papa_smurf · 12-18-10, 05:03 AM

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Originally Posted by TLAM Strike

One explanation: by traveling in time the traveler creates a divergent reality to their own. No time traveler visits an existing reality and thus not creating a paradox, they can only visit the reality they created.

Don't get me started on paradoxes

Growler · 12-18-10, 09:51 AM

Huh?

onelifecrisis · 12-18-10, 09:56 AM

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Originally Posted by TLAM Strike

One explanation: by traveling in time the traveler creates a divergent reality to their own. No time traveler visits an existing reality and thus not creating a paradox, they can only visit the reality they created.

Surely all those alternate realities would cause even God's CPU to overheat.

Growler · 12-18-10, 09:57 AM

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Originally Posted by onelifecrisis

Surely all those alternate realities would cause even God's CPU to overheat.

How does one overCLOCK a TIME machine?

TLAM Strike · 12-18-10, 11:00 AM

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Originally Posted by onelifecrisis

Surely all those alternate realities would cause even God's CPU to overheat.

He has a multi-core processor. One for each reality.

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