Einstein was right, you can be in two places at once

[Pardalis]

[QUOTE=OogalaBoogal;26791146]So, could this theoretically allow us to do what we see in Star Trek? Transport pads, and the whole phasing in, phasing out thing untill we reach our destination? Could it look like it does in the TV show/movies? Would be awesome if it could.[/QUOTE]

Well i guess it would be more of a quick flash, since taking the atoms from one second before and one second after would make them be all wrong because of breathing and moving slightly and stuff.

[editline]19th December 2010[/editline]

[QUOTE=Killerhurtz;26790949]Am I the only one who feels experiments like this is hinting towards a discovery that our world really IS like the Matrix, and the so-called quantum effects would be the effects of having a resolution?[/QUOTE]

So that bright red square on the sky i saw yesterday was not aliens!

Dead pixels!

[Chrille]

[QUOTE=latin_geek;26791593]Well i guess it would be more of a quick flash, since taking the atoms from one second before and one second after would make them be all wrong because of breathing and moving slightly and stuff.[/QUOTE]

Or perhaps the atomic data (whatever the word is) is just scanned and duplicated in the other end

[aVoN]

[QUOTE=Chrille;26785092]Teleportation is possible, I think we're already doing it.

"We're" as in some old dudes in lab coats and particles.[/QUOTE]

Quantum-teleportation (teleportation of an information from one particle at place A to another particle at place B), but no teleportation in meanings of star trek (teleportation of one particle from place A to B)

[Kurtzund]

I feel so stupid.

I have no idea how any of this works.

I'm gonna go read some books now.

[aVoN]

[QUOTE=Kurtzund;26802976]I feel so stupid.

I have no idea how any of this works.

I'm gonna go read some books now.[/QUOTE]

All you need to know is, that the layer vibrates at a superposition (=composition) of two energy-states. Because both states have a different spatial wavefunction, the layer also is spread to different locations.

Anyway, that concept isn't new and I'm confident that this already has been done several times all over the world (E.g. superposition of electronical states in atoms or micro-resonators). But it just could be the article which is 90% about "what quantum-mechanics is and why it is cool for quantum-computers" rather than telling what they actually did in detail.

[Master117]

[QUOTE=JaxJesse315;26776361]Now I can go to the bathroom while playing video games.[/QUOTE]

I can do that already :smug: