Australian physicists develop teleportation scheme for atoms
By Darren Murph 
posted July 11th 2007 4:25AM
posted July 11th 2007 4:25AM
Although the idea of teleporting individuals from one place to another in order to sidestep the headache of rush hour traffic has been around for quite some time, a team of Australian physicists are busy making it work (on a smaller scale, of course). Granted, they don't fully expect their teleportation scheme to be used on humans in the near future, but there's always hope, right? Anyway, the team has developed a so-called "simple way to transport atoms," which involves bringing the atoms to almost absolute zero, beaming them with two lasers, and using fiber optics to transport them to any other place at the speed of light where they "enter a second condensate" and reconstruct. We'll keep you posted on when human trialing (hopefully) begins.
I don't know but are we missing the obvious. Why can't we use this as a way of producting energy? We're converting the atoms to photons, why cann't we collect the photons, and use them as a source of energy? To convert matter directly into energy, the amount of power would be awsome, a kilo of raw matter could power a city for a very long time (E=mc2). I bet it could be made small enough, that it could be used to power cars, computers, houses, pace makers, so on... One hell of a recycling program, convert your garbage to engery.
How about copyright infringement ? What if the info used from "decomposing" the body will be used in more than one place to "rebuild" the body ? Intentionally or not... Actually - welcome to the cloning era !
Logic would dictate that the most practical way to "Transport" an object from one point to another would be to scan object at origination, send info to destination, recreate object at destination in a totally controlled environment, verifying both objects match exactly, then, disassemble object at origination, if required, as may be the case in respect to Human Beings. Transferring the "Soul" would be an interesting problem, though. :-)
Anyone with a basic understanding of particle physics will become quite confused
when they consider the ramifications of the Heisenberg Uncertainty Principle; in
effect, it says it's impossible to record both the position AND the velocity (movement
direction and speed) at the same time. This means that though it may be possible to
'deconstruct' a person down into their component atoms, it would be impossible to put
those atoms back together in such a way that they will all have the same velocity that
they had before they were 'transported'. For instance, There would be no way of properly recording both the placement of blood vessels in the body and the direction of the blood's circulation.
Thus, when the person came ou of the other end of the 'transporter', all of their blood would have stopped circulating, thereby killing them. The same is also true of the movement of electric
currents through the nerves and the brain. And, to get really technical about it, the person's
atoms would have stopped moving, as well. Even if the machine somehow restored motion to the body's
atoms and molecules, that motion would not be the same as it was before, therefore killing the person.
Let me spell it out for you:
The idea that people can be 'transported' across long
(or short) distances by being 'disassembled' or taken
apart in ANY WAY AT ALL is complete hogwash.
This isn't one of those 'Well, maybe at some point in the
future, when science has advanced' kinda things; it's a
violation of a basic law of physics, and is impossible
for the same reason that nothing can go faster than the speed of light;
it just isn't possible without changing the laws of nature,
which, obviously, is also impossible.