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Posted by Spad on Jun-17-2004 19:07:
Scientists teleport atom for first time
Scientists have performed successful teleportation on atoms for the first time, the journal Nature reports.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/sci/tech/3811785.stm
Posted by DJ Lac on Jun-17-2004 19:16:
there goes our nuclear bomb lol
Posted by DJ Mikey Mike on Jun-17-2004 20:01:
Holy shit.
Posted by BTG on Jun-17-2004 20:14:
das fukt
Posted by Fast Turtle on Jun-17-2004 20:17:
It'd be interesting if everything in the world were only two minutes away...
Posted by Flyboy217 on Jun-17-2004 20:18:
Re: Scientists teleport atom for first time
Quantum teleportation sounds less magical when people understand how it works, but in actuality it's just as stunning. Essentially, the exact characteristics of one particle are transferred to another particle some distance away, "destroying" the characterstics of the original particle.
One might say that the particle didnt "REALLY" move, just its properties did; however, in quantum mechanics, two particles are identical (that is, the same) if they have the same properties.
Posted by BTG on Jun-17-2004 20:22:
Re: Re: Scientists teleport atom for first time
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Originally posted by Flyboy217 one particle are transferred to another particle some distance away, "destroying" the characterstics of the original particle.
One might say that the particle didnt "REALLY" move, just its properties did; however, in quantum mechanics, two particles are identical (that is, the same) if they have the same properties. |
see, thats why i'm never going into one of those teleporters (when they become a method of travel) cause really, you die when you go in, and you have a clone (exactly the same) but its still not you. you die. that sucks.
Posted by Marcy on Jun-17-2004 20:28:
beam me up scottie.
Posted by mentalbarter on Jun-17-2004 21:16:
in fairness tho quantum mechanics is completely fucked up compared to normal sized life
and anything they can do in that field will not be applicable to us
Posted by KilldaDJ on Jun-17-2004 22:01:
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Originally posted by Marcy
beam me up scottie. |
ROFL
and he'll attack us with his quasar beam krrrrzzz
Posted by twisted on Jun-17-2004 22:37:
Re: Re: Re: Scientists teleport atom for first time
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Originally posted by BTG
see, thats why i'm never going into one of those teleporters (when they become a method of travel) cause really, you die when you go in, and you have a clone (exactly the same) but its still not you. you die. that sucks. |
hey would that mean your still you though? i mean would you still think the same way? would you still be who you are if you teleported? because if your a clone your mind would be cloned to, but your personality can't. in a way its like cloning a soul. would your personality have to start over? thats fuckin mind boggling
Posted by smokeape on Jun-17-2004 22:41:
I think this demands a response from VividBoy!
Lol!
[[[smoke]]]
Posted by Lumps on Jun-17-2004 23:39:
Read about this this morning; very interesting.
Posted by Flyboy217 on Jun-18-2004 00:23:
Re: Re: Re: Re: Scientists teleport atom for first time
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Originally posted by twisted420
hey would that mean your still you though? i mean would you still think the same way? would you still be who you are if you teleported? because if your a clone your mind would be cloned to, but your personality can't. in a way its like cloning a soul. would your personality have to start over? thats fuckin mind boggling |
Not at all. The whole point of quantum mechanical teleportation is that the replica is physically the same. In essence, it is no different from walking from one spot to another. If one accepts a material reductionist view of the mind, then there can be precisely NO way of differentiating the "clone" (in quotes because it's meaningless) from "you."
Posted by twisted on Jun-18-2004 01:47:
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Originally posted by Flyboy217
Not at all. The whole point of quantum mechanical teleportation is that the replica is physically the same. In essence, it is no different from walking from one spot to another. If one accepts a material reductionist view of the mind, then there can be precisely NO way of differentiating the "clone" (in quotes because it's meaningless) from "you." |
yeah, ill believe that
Posted by Flyboy217 on Jun-18-2004 14:14:
Re: Re: Re: Scientists teleport atom for first time
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Originally posted by BTG
see, thats why i'm never going into one of those teleporters (when they become a method of travel) cause really, you die when you go in, and you have a clone (exactly the same) but its still not you. you die. that sucks. |
This is an excellent philosophical question.
Rephrase it this way: Suppose you were told that there was a 100% chance of success of getting through the teleporter safely. And suppose, as before, that you accepted a material reductionist view of the mind-- that is, that the mind is nothing but the byproduct of the brain's neurochemistry. Would you go through? This is very hard to answer "no" to, because of the implications... namely, that teleportation is identical to, say, walking.
However, consider it another way: Suppose you walked into the first machine, then remote machine created a copy of you, and then the first copy was destroyed in some harmless fashion. No problem, right? But suppose the first machine accidentally didn't destroy your atoms. You would be alive and well in the first machine and the second. Then suppose the first machine realizes its mistake, and decides to slaughter you. Now "you" are dead. Where's the rub?
The magic is in the details. Philosophically, this sounds perplexing and paradoxical... you would like to go through because there's no difference from walking, but the second argument shows that the copy is in some way not "you." So now what's the problem? It's in what's called the "no cloning theorem," which states that a quantum state CANNOT be replicated exactly while preserving the original. That is to say, the teleporter simply must destroy the original and create the "clone" simultaneously (atom by atom, that is). The problem is getting all the atoms to go at the same time.
Spooky, ain't it?
Posted by Sean Walsh on Jun-18-2004 14:34:
Some pretty sweet stuff to think about.
Posted by davinox on Jun-20-2004 07:44:
Re: Re: Re: Re: Scientists teleport atom for first time
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Originally posted by Flyboy217
This is an excellent philosophical question.
Rephrase it this way: Suppose you were told that there was a 100% chance of success of getting through the teleporter safely. And suppose, as before, that you accepted a material reductionist view of the mind-- that is, that the mind is nothing but the byproduct of the brain's neurochemistry. Would you go through? This is very hard to answer "no" to, because of the implications... namely, that teleportation is identical to, say, walking.
However, consider it another way: Suppose you walked into the first machine, then remote machine created a copy of you, and then the first copy was destroyed in some harmless fashion. No problem, right? But suppose the first machine accidentally didn't destroy your atoms. You would be alive and well in the first machine and the second. Then suppose the first machine realizes its mistake, and decides to slaughter you. Now "you" are dead. Where's the rub?
The magic is in the details. Philosophically, this sounds perplexing and paradoxical... you would like to go through because there's no difference from walking, but the second argument shows that the copy is in some way not "you." So now what's the problem? It's in what's called the "no cloning theorem," which states that a quantum state CANNOT be replicated exactly while preserving the original. That is to say, the teleporter simply must destroy the original and create the "clone" simultaneously (atom by atom, that is). The problem is getting all the atoms to go at the same time.
Spooky, ain't it? |
i see what you mean.
another example: say you go under a coma and while you are under, they download the exact molecular structure your brain. Like they made an exact replica, but they put it on a machine. Now someone wakes the of two you up, you and the machine, and which is "you"? Do you have the ability to share your conciousness?
Consciousness (our exprience) is all we have.
Posted by diffusion on Jun-20-2004 09:35:
Yes, I read that article. They managed to teleport a quantum attribute
of one atom to another. Like the article says, this is the first step.
future is now
Posted by A.J. on Jun-20-2004 09:51:
hahaha we did this exact same thing in philosophy last year.
Too bad i can't remember a single thing about it.
Posted by ShadoWolf on Jun-21-2004 02:02:
We get entirely new cells in our bodies every elecven years or so, so that's not too different than getting new molecules when you teleport.
Posted by cistane on Jun-21-2004 03:41:
Well, whatever the case may be...I'm sure the military can find an evil use for this technology like every other technology they have corrupted
Posted by nic01445 on Jun-21-2004 03:45:
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Originally posted by cistane
Well, whatever the case may be...I'm sure the military can find an evil use for this technology like every other technology they have corrupted |
Don't worry, it isn't evil if it's American.
Posted by u4ea:[soulstar] on Jun-22-2004 07:49:
Re: Re: Scientists teleport atom for first time
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Originally posted by Flyboy217
Quantum teleportation sounds less magical when people understand how it works, but in actuality it's just as stunning. Essentially, the exact characteristics of one particle are transferred to another particle some distance away, "destroying" the characterstics of the original particle.
One might say that the particle didnt "REALLY" move, just its properties did; however, in quantum mechanics, two particles are identical (that is, the same) if they have the same properties. |
there have been theories already indirectly explaining teleportation. its called holographic theory (bohm) where the atoms are blinking in and out of 3D space at faster than light speed (instantenous teleportation).
the particles don't have to be the same with this theory I gather.
destruction is more about quantum transmutation or emergence.
[b]However, consider it another way: Suppose you walked into the first machine, then remote machine created a copy of you, and then the first copy was destroyed in some harmless fashion. No problem, right? But suppose the first machine accidentally didn't destroy your atoms. You would be alive and well in the first machine and the second. Then suppose the first machine realizes its mistake, and decides to slaughter you. Now "you" are dead. Where's the rub?
The magic is in the details. Philosophically, this sounds perplexing and paradoxical... you would like to go through because there's no difference from walking, but the second argument shows that the copy is in some way not "you." So now what's the problem? It's in what's called the "no cloning theorem," which states that a quantum state CANNOT be replicated exactly while preserving the original. That is to say, the teleporter simply must destroy the original and create the "clone" simultaneously (atom by atom, that is). The problem is getting all the atoms to go at the same time.
[b]
the greater implication of this is that you're changing a 3D living object into 1D or *smeep* near-0D. death may not be the end result. rather, the object is stucked (or stasis) in limbo somehwere in a hypersphere (embedded 4D in a 3D universe, H-H model in quantum cosmology) or is in another dimension. basically meaning the object is dimensionless and lost somewhere in 3D space for the former.
the idea of building a teleport container that keeps a human in full 3D quantum coherence (permanent space bubble)is safer than demoleculization. teleportation can be done by opening a gate in the nodes network (loop quantum gravity theory) of space (its not empty but a medium as loose meaning), input coordinates in the qubit navcomp for gateway point a and b, and initiate hypersphere jump with the use of pre-jump step**. Poof! out comes the container at gp b, with living object molecularly intact. 
** = container tossed into the gate at a certain velocity with a certain kinetic force contacting the gate
another idea in LQG theory is the network has a property of plasticity as tensors. nodes always spin. so node a is connected to node b. node a turns in a direction that pulls node b closer until space folds together between those two points. the danger i gather is the *transported* object can be crushed into the size of an atom if there is no adequate shielding.
i'm nutz
Posted by biznology on Jun-22-2004 08:43:
Re: Re: Re: Scientists teleport atom for first time
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Originally posted by u4ea:[soulstar]
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the issue that also becomes, it is just that 100 years ago we didnt believe in electrons, now we believe them as fact.
as intellect 'continues' what do we "really" know, and what do we just want to believe?
sorry|
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