Creative Commons license icon

Beam me up?

Posted by (Melissa Drake) on Thu 20 Jun 2002 - 10:00
Your rating: None Average: 5 (1 vote)

A beam of light has been teleported in Australia, which might seem a long way from Star Trek, but it's the first step to large scale teleportation.Though humans are a long way off (if ever) the applications of being able to teleport sub atomic particles and light are numerous, such as telecommunications and encryption.

Tags:

Comments

camstone-fox — Fri 21 Jun 2002 - 14:42
#301
Your rating: None Average: 5 (1 vote)

Being a scientist, I view this with a lot of scepticism. Sounds not unlike cold water fusion... and the BBC article has few details on how they got a light beam to "jump."

Grace and Peace - Camstone Fox

Anon — Sat 22 Jun 2002 - 04:49
#302
Your rating: None Average: 5 (1 vote)

Seems like just a larger scale application of how they teleported a photon(well, it's properties atleast) a few years ago.

As for details, you might try a site like exn.ca that'd be more likly to include such, rather than something aimed at the general public

Post new comment

  • Web page addresses and e-mail addresses turn into links automatically.
  • Allowed HTML tags: <a> <img> <b> <i> <s> <blockquote> <ul> <ol> <li> <table> <tr> <td> <th> <sub> <sup> <object> <embed> <h1> <h2> <h3> <h4> <h5> <h6> <dl> <dt> <dd> <param> <center> <strong> <q> <cite> <code> <em>
  • Lines and paragraphs break automatically.

More information about formatting options

CAPTCHA
This test is to prevent automated spam submissions.
Leave empty.

About the author

MelSkunk (Melissa Drake) — read stories — contact (login required)

a student and Skunk from Toronto, ON, interested in writting, art, classic cars and animals