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Re: starship-design: Fwd: FW: 100 years ago......
In a message dated 3/20/02 11:08:41 PM, stevev@efn.org 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".
Not really. Both create a exact duplicate of the origional particles at the
remote site. The problem is you can only do it a particle at a time, hence
replicating a full object would take a rediculas amount of time. I.E. the
systems useless for that.