[thechat] Dudes! Star Trek transporters are here

Madhu Menon webguru at vsnl.net
Tue Jun 18 12:49:00 CDT 2002


I'm surprised this hasn't got more attention.

http://news.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/sci/tech/newsid_2049000/2049048.stm

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It is a long way from Star Trek, but teleportation - the disembodiment of
an object in one location and its reconstruction in another - has been
successfully carried out in a physics lab in Australia.
Scientists at the Australian National University (ANU) made a beam of light
disappear in one place and reappear in another a short distance away.

The achievement confirms that in theory teleportation is possible, at least
for sub-atomic particles; whether it can be done for larger systems, such
as atoms, remains to be seen.

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Regards,


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