RE: starship-design: Fwd: FW: 100 years ago......

["L. Parker" <lparker@cacaphony.net>]

Its even a far cry from being able to send a message, much less an actual
object, but you never know...

Lee

> -----Original Message-----
> From: owner-starship-design@lists.uoregon.edu
> [mailto:owner-starship-design@lists.uoregon.edu]On Behalf Of Steve
> VanDevender
> Sent: Wednesday, March 20, 2002 11:07 PM
> To: starship-design@lists.uoregon.edu
> Subject: RE: starship-design: Fwd: FW: 100 years ago......
>
>
> KellySt@aol.com writes:
>  > As to the transporter experiment
>  >
>  > http://www.research.ibm.com/quantuminfo/teleportation/
>
> "Quantum teleportation" means "we can take an initially unknown and
> uncontrollable quantum state and duplicate it in two physically
> separated locations, such that when we measure them they are
> observed to
> be identical and to collapse 'simultaneously'".  This is a
> far cry from
> making a Star Trek "transporter".