Human teleportation getting closer

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Scientists find way to teleport atoms on optic fibres

By Mark Schliebs
July 10, 2007 11:55am



AUSTRALIAN physicists have discovered a method that could see atoms being teleported between Sydney and Perth and pave the way for possible Star Trek-like travel in the future.
The method involves cooling down a group of atoms and shooting lasers at them, making them "appear to disappear" before using transporting them along optic fibres at light speed to another location where they can be reconstructed.

The "simple" way of transporting atoms was developed by physicists Murray Olsen, Ashton Bradley, Simon Haine of the Australian Research Council Centre for Quantum-Atom Optics, and and Joseph Hope of ANU.

Dr Olsen told NEWS.com.au the method was very much like the Star Trek characters' favourite way to get back onto the ship.

The atoms are cooled to almost absolute zero, or -273C. At a billionth of a degree above this temperature, a quirk of physics makes all the atoms start behaving in the same way. Then the scientists zap them with two lasers.
“If you cool these atoms down enough ... in a condensate, they all enter the same quantum state,” Dr Olsen said.

“When a few thousand atoms are overlapping (and you hit them with the laser beams)… they basically disappear.

“We can use an optic fibre (to transport the signal at the speed of light) into a second condensate, which could be in another room, or another building, or another state.

“We’ve got the coldest thing in the universe and the fastest speed in the universe.”
Experiments

He said the method could be being used in laboratories in the next four years, but didn't expect he would ever see humans teleported.

Dr Haine said the team’s method was a lot simpler than previous theories.

Dr Haine also said their method would reconstruct the atoms better once transported, compared to the “entanglement” theory.

“As our scheme doesn’t rely on the quality of the entanglement, it may be possible to achieve more accurate teleportation via this method,” Dr Haine said.
Another scientist at ANU, Dr John Close, intends to implement the experiments over the coming years.

http://www.news.com.au/story/0,23599,22048954-2,00.html

[Camaero]

Damn, if we don't die from a comet or blow ourselves up with nukes then the future is pretty sweet!

[P_Funk]

Though I've heard that Star Trek teleportation was impossible basically because the act of teleporting isn't actually moving anything but of destroying the atoms at one end and creating them at the other. Then you aren't beaming someone but killing them and duplicating them, and even then if it could reach that scale of function you don't know if the person would actually live through it.

I think its just a bit of dramatic fluff really. Lasers, yes. Warp speed, probably. Teleportation? Naw.

[fatty]

Originally Posted by P_Funk

Though I've heard that Star Trek teleportation was impossible basically because the act of teleporting isn't actually moving anything but of destroying the atoms at one end and creating them at the other. Then you aren't beaming someone but killing them and duplicating them, and even then if it could reach that scale of function you don't know if the person would actually live through it.

Yes, AFAIK our current level of 'teleportation' just entails reading the configuration of atom X and reconfiguring atom Y to be the same. 'Replication' is probably a better word for this.

[Chock]

Well I know for a fact that there are aliens that have teleported people to my hometown, because it's full of people that are most definitely 'not from this planet'
:rotfl:

Chock

[The Avon Lady]

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[kiwi_2005]

Originally Posted by P_Funk

Though I've heard that Star Trek teleportation was impossible basically because the act of teleporting isn't actually moving anything but of destroying the atoms at one end and creating them at the other. Then you aren't beaming someone but killing them and duplicating them, and even then if it could reach that scale of function you don't know if the person would actually live through it.

I think its just a bit of dramatic fluff really. Lasers, yes. Warp speed, probably. Teleportation? Naw.

Yeah i read the same, but it would be great if they found a way to teleport humans imagine that, no more need to fly everyone in the far furture would have a teleport machine in their home it would be as common as a Television,. Well im off to paris for the weekend, you step on the panel push some buttons and zap your in paris. Would be no need for roads, transport everything would be teleported.

Maybe in 10,000 years in the future human teleportation might happen, till then experimental teleportation of humans will end with results similar to the Ripley clones in Aliens Resurrection