eldavojohn's Journal: Teleportation ... Sans Quantum Entanglement

The edge of scientific endeavors is often paved and extrapolated by science fiction. And researchers work ever diligently to bring Star Trek-like teleportation to be a reality. Slashdot has covered teleportation by way of quantum mechanics but one of the unfortunate prerequisites for such a scheme to work is that both sides share quantum entanglement which is not only difficult/impossible to achieve over long distances but also suffers the issues associated with degradation of the entanglement (must occur very quickly). To alleviate these problems, a team has recently theorized and proven on a small scale that it is indeed possible to 'beam' macroscopic matter between two Bose-Einstein Condensates (BECs) without the problems associated with quantum entanglement. Interestingly enough, this method does not violate the No Teleportation Theorem since the atoms transported are first encoded through the BECs which are matter frozen to within 100 billionth of a degree of absolute zero causing there to be no measurement step. The paper is available on arxiv.

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[Captain Splendid]

The edge of scientific endeavors if often

Normally, I'm excellent at grammar at spelling, but for some reason, whatever part of my brain regulates it is running on overdrive today. Every single little mistake I've seen on the web today has jumped out and smacked me hard in the face, sometimes far in advance of actually reading the offending word or sentence. It's really annoying. Not picking on you in particular, just wanted to get that out there as it's giving me a splitting headache. Stupid pattern

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[Captain Splendid]

Odd that I would wig out at all. It's occurred to me that instead of the spelling/grammar node of my noggin firing up, maybe it's more like the reading comprehension part that's having problems. Typos and the like usually don't bother me, "translations" occur instantaneously, so I think it might be that part that's not working. Again, sorry for cluttering up your journal. Unfortunately, when I need to bounce ideas off of smart people, pretty much all I have is Slashdot ;)