Teleportation is one of those things I’d always mentally placed, along with time travel, in the “Sorry, it ain’t never gonna happen” category. So, I was a bit surprised to see this. Admittedly, the science of it is way over my head, but I can live with that. I don’t understand how computers work, either.
Perhaps we have taken the first step
So, I will assume they are being serious, and time will tell if they are right or not. I’d love to see it, because that would provide us with the loophole we need to get around that speed of light speed limit, and if we never get around that speed of light speed limit, exploration of the galaxy is going to be a mighty tedious venture, like driving from New York to L.A. at parking lot speed.
The thing I mainly don’t understand about it is how do they know that the particle in the one containment space is the same particle that came from the other containment space. Do they have it marked with dye or something? I remember a similar experiment at CERN a while back when they announced that they’d fired some little microscopic abstraction from France to Italy, several meters, at least, and it had gone faster than the speed of light. I raised the same question then and got no replies except for one that said “Jesus, Mary and Einstein, you are the biggest fucking moron on the planet,” or words to that effect, but they didn’t actually answer my question.
Anyway, even if they’ve figured out teleportation, we are still many years and thousands of dead mice away from having the capability to beam down from a starship to a planet filled with slinky, blue females and a rogue super-intelligence that demands human sacrifice.
That’s O.K. The voyages of the Star Ship Enterprise don’t take place until the middle of the 23rd century. Zefram Cochrane, inventor of the warp drive, is probably a pre-schooler right about now, more curious about the taste of dirt than quantum theory. We still have time.
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