Sirc
10-05-2006, 03:52 AM
...of reporting a scientific breakthrough that the reporter has no hope whatsoever in understanding. I don't understand it either, frankly.
http://www.cnn.com/2006/TECH/science/10/04/teleportation.reut/index.html
Here's my take on this story:
Until now scientists have teleported similar objects such as light or single atoms over short distances from one spot to another in a split second.
A split second? WTH does that mean? I can throw my pen across the room in a split second, and it contains lots of atoms.
It is one step further because for the first time it involves teleportation between light and matter, two different objects. One is the carrier of information and the other one is the storage medium," Polzik explained in an interview on Wednesday.
The experiment involved for the first time a macroscopic atomic object containing thousands of billions of atoms. They also teleported the information a distance of half a meter but believe it can be extended further.
So then, they have information stored in matter, covert it to a form that can be carried by light, and then have the identical information stored in matter in another location half a meter away. Someone needs to explain fiber optics to them before they get too excited.
Macroscopic means that the object can be seen by the naked eye. Atomic means the scale is on the order of that of an atom and therefore too small to be seen with the naked eye. WTF is a macroscopic atomic object? And BTW, thousands of billions = trillions. Wouldn't that have been easier to say?
Quantum entanglement involves entwining two or more particles without physical contact.
Pfft. Sounds like my marraige. My life is entwined with my wife's, but there is no physical contact.
Creating entanglement is a very important step but there are two more steps at least to perform teleportation. We have succeeded in making all three steps -- that is entanglement, quantum measurement and quantum feedback
They'd probably have a lot more success if they could do it without getting their quantums tangled in the process.
What this all comes down to is that these people are doing things that I don't understand, and it scares me. That probably makes them witches. These scientists need to be seized immediately and have their weight measured against that of a duck.
http://www.cnn.com/2006/TECH/science/10/04/teleportation.reut/index.html
Here's my take on this story:
Until now scientists have teleported similar objects such as light or single atoms over short distances from one spot to another in a split second.
A split second? WTH does that mean? I can throw my pen across the room in a split second, and it contains lots of atoms.
It is one step further because for the first time it involves teleportation between light and matter, two different objects. One is the carrier of information and the other one is the storage medium," Polzik explained in an interview on Wednesday.
The experiment involved for the first time a macroscopic atomic object containing thousands of billions of atoms. They also teleported the information a distance of half a meter but believe it can be extended further.
So then, they have information stored in matter, covert it to a form that can be carried by light, and then have the identical information stored in matter in another location half a meter away. Someone needs to explain fiber optics to them before they get too excited.
Macroscopic means that the object can be seen by the naked eye. Atomic means the scale is on the order of that of an atom and therefore too small to be seen with the naked eye. WTF is a macroscopic atomic object? And BTW, thousands of billions = trillions. Wouldn't that have been easier to say?
Quantum entanglement involves entwining two or more particles without physical contact.
Pfft. Sounds like my marraige. My life is entwined with my wife's, but there is no physical contact.
Creating entanglement is a very important step but there are two more steps at least to perform teleportation. We have succeeded in making all three steps -- that is entanglement, quantum measurement and quantum feedback
They'd probably have a lot more success if they could do it without getting their quantums tangled in the process.
What this all comes down to is that these people are doing things that I don't understand, and it scares me. That probably makes them witches. These scientists need to be seized immediately and have their weight measured against that of a duck.