They say they can teleport small objects such as rocks,do you think in 50 years,everything will be like Star Trek and Star Wars w/ phasers,teleporters,and lightsabers,and stuff?
2007-11-26 10:42:59 · 7 answers · asked by Anonymous in Science & Mathematics ➔ Astronomy & Space
Go here
http://www.howstuffworks.com/teleportation.htm
2007-11-26 10:55:38 · answer #1 · answered by Just me again ☺ 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
What size ears do you have that you can hear all this stuff?
First of all, the government is mostly in the business of making laws, collecting taxes and dispersing them on useful things like roads and schools and social security and less useful ones like nuclear bombs and war.
Teleportation is not one of the fundamental areas the government is engaged in.
As far as teleportation is concerned, nothing has been teleported, as of yet. Scientists have been able to transmit part of the wave function of one atom. That does not mean the atom has been moved. It means that the state of one atom has been read by a machine and then transfered to another atom which at the end of the process was in the same state as the first one.
It's the same process as me looking at the color of my living room in Brazil, then telling a friend in Hong Kong that it is mint green who then paints his living room the same color. Obviously one would not call that teleportation of a living room, would one?
But it's great that you have such a keen interest in reality, anyway.
:-)
2007-11-26 18:56:59 · answer #2 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
Not gonna happen. Robots will probably do our stuff for us in the next 50 years, but teleportation... that's near impossible these days. Even for thousands of centuries of time. We might even develop light speed travel before that, and it's STILL near impossible with the latest technologies.
2007-11-26 18:49:16 · answer #3 · answered by syaorannivek 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Hi. Amansscientiae's answer is almost correct. 'They' include government funded physicists and these guys have taken the first step using 'entanglement' to change an object at a distance. http://physicsworld.com/cws/article/print/9754 and http://physicsworld.com/cws/article/news/2597
2007-11-26 19:11:34 · answer #4 · answered by Cirric 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Last I heard they could move ATOMS but not whole rocks.
2007-11-26 18:46:47 · answer #5 · answered by redunicorn 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Good riddance to them.
2007-11-26 19:39:42 · answer #6 · answered by Choose a bloody best answer. It's not hard. 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
if it was on the internets, it must be true.
2007-11-26 18:50:34 · answer #7 · answered by JD16NT 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋