[Marxism] Teleportation: Express Lane Space Travel

[Mike Friedman <mikedf@xxxxxxxx>]

http://news.yahoo.com/s/space/20050708/sc_space/teleportationexpresslanespacetravel

Teleportation: Express Lane Space Travel

Leonard David
Senior Space Writer
SPACE.com Fri Jul 8,12:06 PM ET

Think Star Trek: You are here. You want to go there. It's just a matter of
teleportation.

Thanks to lab experiments, there is growth in the number of "beam me up"
believers, but there is an equal amount of disbelief, too.

Over the last few years, however, researchers have successfully teleported
beams of light across a laboratory bench. Also, the quantum state of a
trapped calcium ion to another calcium ion has been teleported in a
controlled way.

These and other experiments all make for heady and heavy reading in
scientific journals. The reports would have surely found a spot on
Einstein's night table. For the most part, it's an exotic amalgam of things
like quantum this and quantum that, wave function, qubits and polarization,
as well as uncertainty principle, excited states and entanglement.

Seemingly, milking all this highbrow physics to flesh out point-to-point
human teleportation is a long, long way off.

Well, maybe...maybe not.

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