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[theone]

No one's getting beamed up anytime soon, but teleportation may have taken a big step closer to reality.

Researchers at Delft University of Technology in the Netherlands say they have succeeded in accurately transferring information from one quantum bit to another quantum bit located 3 meters away -- without the information traveling through the intervening space.

A quantum bit (qubit) is analogous to a conventional computer bit -- though unlike a conventional bit, a qubit can represent more than two possible values.

The feat is considered a critical step toward the development of a network of so-called quantum computers. These ultrafast computers -- still theoretical at this point -- would be able to solve problems beyond the reach of even the most powerful computers available today, the New York Times reported.

In addition, quantum computers would allow data transfer to be completely secure, according to a written statement released by the university. Eavesdropping on data would be virtually impossible.

To achieve their feat, the researchers exploited quantum entanglement. That's a bizarre physics phenomenon that Albert Einstein famously argued against because it amounted to "spooky action at a distance" -- something he considered impossible.

"Entanglement is arguably the strangest and most intriguing consequence of the laws of quantum mechanics," Prof. Ronald Hanson, head of the research effort, said in a written statement. "When two particles become entangled, their identities merge: their collective state is precisely determined but the individual identity of each of the particles has disappeared."


Hanson's team isn't alone in its quest to exploit quantum entanglement.

"There is a big race going on between five or six groups to prove Einstein wrong," he told the Times. "There is one very big fish."

But what about the idea of teleporting physical objects -- even humans -- rather than just information?

"If you believe we are nothing more than a collection of atoms strung together in a particular way, then in principle it should be possible to teleport ourselves from one place to another," he told The Telegraph. "In practice it's extremely unlikely, but to say it can never work is very dangerous."

If Star Trek-style teleportation does become possible, Hanson said, it will be in the distant future.

Take a seat, Scotty.

A paper describing the advance was published online May 29 in the journal Science.

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2014/05/2 ... 13418.html

[Redbeck]

Interesting gathering of data, theone. qubits and biblical cubits eh, as the measurements of Noahs Ark were spelled out, merely phonetic synergy but both a scientific sign of the times in their own way.

Quantum entanglement, ah yes "Beam me up Scotty" is one aspect, but the merged identity of brain impulse message particles is perhaps a more sinister implication, could good old fashioned 'brainwashing' be taken to an entirely different level. Not just drummed into ones head by rote or hypnosis, but cloned thought process via quantum entanglement. However, if this were to be a practical process, then one must ask the question, when two particles merge into a uniform collective state, is there a dominant partner among the merged particles dictating the collective characteristics?

I haven't quite wrapped my cranium and its contents round the next level down, but nevertheless intensely keen to know more. On a more positive note could the power of uber-reactive brain impulse particles from the intelligent be harnessed to help the currently disadvantaged, dementia, Alzheimers sufferers.

HG Wells and his time machine, could we reassemble our particles in a differing chronological zone, or is that one step beyond? How and Where do we get the amplified edition of what these chaps are doing?

Redbeck's Log, blahdate 41973.9. Or is my vision becoming warped by factor 7!!

Well bless my soul, I almost forgot in the half-light before the moon climbs beyond the raithneach of netherton, bejaysys t'was the warp factor 7 that triggered another link worthy of unbridled pursuit back down to the labyrinth, in the quest for the Minotaurs of particle entanglement.

http://www.973-eht-namuh-973.com/Alchem ... %20733.htm

[Redbeck]

Good morning theone, and a fine morning for a mind changing experience so it is!

Following on from our recent exchange on the private members' network and my last post to this very chain of thought, would it not be an auspicious adjunct to introduce the time travelling mystique of John Titor and your experiences to the mix, I wonder?

[IoBoI]

Quantum Physics extend past time and space. Whose to say it already is upon us. They don’t call it eternity for no reason folks