Teleportation Gets a Boost

saavyone writes to tell us Yahoo! News is reporting that while teleportation may not quite be a reality yet a team of Danish scientists have raised the bar on this line of research. From the article: "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. 'Teleportation between two single atoms had been done two years ago by two teams but this was done at a distance of a fraction of a millimeter,' Polzik, of the Danish National Research Foundation Center for Quantum Optics, explained. 'Our method allows teleportation to be taken over longer distances because it involves light as the carrier of entanglement,' he added."

Very funny Scotty,

[vasanth]

now beam down my clothes!!!!!!!

Anyone have the youtube link?

[mr_stinky_britches]

Anyone have a link to this teleportation video?

Ramifications

[Dan East]

Apparently these scientists have never watched TRON, or they'd quit why they're ahead. Or, perhaps they know the risks and have brushed up on their 80's era arcade gaming skills.

Dan East

I really need to get one of these...

[__aaclcg7560]

I could use it to teleport all the dust bunnies hiding behind computers to a passing Klingon ship.

Re:Please...

[vriemeister]

I'll try, one sec

Thousands of billions...

[truthsearch]

thousands of billions of atoms

Trillions, even?

this just proves my theory...

[hobo sapiens]

...that nerds will stop at NOTHING to prove Star Trek is real. First, transparent aluminum [slashdot.org], now this.

Scientific... American?

[Anonymous Coward]

Isn't that, like, an oxymoron or something?

No Thanks, I'll walk

[TheWoozle]

I think Douglas Adams said it best:

I teleported home one night
With Ron and Sid and Meg;
Ron stole Meggie's heart away
And I got Sidney's leg.

Easier method to teleport between solar systems

[WillAffleckUW]

1. Send DNA sequence for human/animal/etc from Star 1 to Star 2.
2. Use DNA sequence to grow said creature.
3. Install memory sequences, also sent as information.
4. Wake person up.
5. Keep original as slave in vast human slave army used to conquer the galaxy.
6. PROFIT!

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Re:oblig

[Anonymous Coward]

Very well, thank you.

Re:Please...

[partenon]

Translating...

Its not a:
$ mv source target

Its a:
$ cp source target

Oh Gosh, now I fully know quantum computing!

Re:Scientific... American?

[WilliamSChips]

No, it was created long before Bush was elected.

Re:oblig

[zephc]

With Heisenberg compensators?

Re:Please...

[kfg]

Oh yeah, yer like being all smug and shit about it now, but just you wait until the day comes when he opens the door and observes you dead.

KFG

"raised the bar"?

[SeePage87]

The least they could do is make a corny teleportation pun, like, "In a sudden jump forward..." or something. Such a waste.

Re:Please...

[Anonymous Coward]

Now you're just making stuff up!

Re:Please...

[DrVomact]

And if two physicists were to accidentally emerge in the same stall, they'd be a pair o' docs?

Re:Please...

[slack-fu]

ACTUALLY it is like this:

# mv source target

everyone knows you have to be root to teleport SHEESH.

Re:Please...

[TheUnknownCoder]

copy con teleport.bat
@echo off
cls
echo.
echo Now teleporting...
move /Y a b > NULL
REM sleep 30s (OMG! It's taking long this time! IT'S WOKRING!!!):
PING -n 31 127.0.0.1>nul
echo.
echo Done!
^Z

Re:Please...

[Frank T. Lofaro Jr.]

Umm, Windows has a sleep command

Re:Please...

[WilliamSChips]

Actually, it's sudo make me a sandwich [xkcd.com].

Re:Please...

[ichigo 2.0]

Actually, I think it's more like:

101010110101101001010111000111100000000001101011 10101001001010011111001010100101010100101010100101 01110100101010010101010011

Re:Please...

[fmobus]

Unfortunately it must be destroyed, as RIAA prevents us copying (well, backing-up) anything.

There, corrected a typo for you