Scientists find way to teleport atoms on optic fibres

[mcflux]

http://www.news.com.au/story/0,23599,22048954-2,00.html

Why am I scared that this technology may accidentally cause armageddon if an internet provider like Dodo gets their hands on this?

Scientists find way to teleport atoms on optic fibres
By Mark Schliebs
July 10, 2007 11:55am

* Australian boffins find way to teleport atoms
* Researcher compares it to Star Trek beaming
* Method involves lasers, extremely cold temperatures

AUSTRALIAN physicists have discovered a method that could see atoms being teleported between Sydney and Perth and pave the way for possible Star Trek-like travel in the future.

The method involves cooling down a group of atoms and shooting lasers at them, making them "appear to disappear" before using transporting them along optic fibres at light speed to another location where they can be reconstructed.

The "simple" way of transporting atoms was developed by physicists Murray Olsen, Ashton Bradley, Simon Haine of the Australian Research Council Centre for Quantum-Atom Optics, and and Joseph Hope of ANU.

Dr Olsen told NEWS.com.au the method was very much like the Star Trek characters' favourite way to get back onto the ship.

The atoms are cooled to almost absolute zero, or -273C. At a billionth of a degree above this temperature, a quirk of physics makes all the atoms start behaving in the same way. Then the scientists zap them with two lasers.

“If you cool these atoms down enough ... in a condensate, they all enter the same quantum state,” Dr Olsen said.

“When a few thousand atoms are overlapping (and you hit them with the laser beams)… they basically disappear.

“We can use an optic fibre (to transport the signal at the speed of light) into a second condensate, which could be in another room, or another building, or another state.

“We’ve got the coldest thing in the universe and the fastest speed in the universe.”

Experiments

He said the method could be being used in laboratories in the next four years, but didn't expect he would ever see humans teleported.

Dr Haine said the team’s method was a lot simpler than previous theories.

Dr Haine also said their method would reconstruct the atoms better once transported, compared to the “entanglement” theory.

“As our scheme doesn’t rely on the quality of the entanglement, it may be possible to achieve more accurate teleportation via this method,” Dr Haine said.

Another scientist at ANU, Dr John Close, intends to implement the experiments over the coming years.

[Tote]

But how long would you have to put your newly teleported donut in the microwave for so you could eat it?
mmmmm teleported donuts.......
Regards,
Tote

[Ives]

It's only a matter of time till we warp around to places.

[Silentsfastcar]

you can warp.. ill still be driving my car!!! but by then ill be running on orange juice or something lol

[mcflux]

After some thought on this since initially posting, I've come to the conclusion that they're not thinking outside the box. Fibre-optic = set destinations & a heap of infrastructure. Why not go "wireless"? :P That'll beat dying when a contractor digs through the telstra cable you're currently bouncing around inside...

[4.9 EF Futura]

Originally Posted by Ghia5L

Why am I scared that this technology may accidentally cause armageddon if an internet provider like Dodo gets their hands on this?

If only!

Most likely wind up as part of the telstra monopoly and then the thing will never work properly anyways

"If you are calling to have scotty beam you up, press one"

"Im sorry, we are experiencing an unusually high number of calls at the moment and...."

[mcflux]

Now I'm having images of that Telstra ad from a while back where everyone got stuck together!

[irlewy86]

Would be a typical Telstra service, "Light speed travel to 98% of Australia (It'll take 35 phone calls and six months to get installed though)"

[GTWHOA]

HAHA everyone just starts bagging telstra, must have big phone bills.. even if it could send an atom somewhere you would need millions of lasers just to send a grain of sand.

[4.9 EF Futura]

Originally Posted by DVL40L

HAHA everyone just starts bagging telstra, must have big phone bills.. even if it could send an atom somewhere you would need millions of lasers just to send a grain of sand.

Lol, nah even worse... they're my ISP

[russellw]

I actually thought Renault had already achieved this with the Megane - with the usual errors you'd expect from new technology that caused all the back end of the cars to be missing when they reconstructed the atoms.

Cheers
Russ

[kremmen]

Don't get a fly caught in there with ya when u teleport, we all know what happens next.......................................

[XR8Master]

Actually, I remember a few years ago when they telleported the first atom about half a meter or something...its only a matter of time before half a meter turns into 100 000 km and one attom turns into billions

[Bucknaked]

Beam me up Scotty. I'll be glad when we all have our own teleporter in our houses. No more air travel or travel of any kind. Push a button and your there.

[gtfpv]

think of plastic surgery, instead of someone going to thailand, for a boob job. you'll be able to zap there by teleportation, and physically remorph in an improved state, with a kidney removed without you even knowing. so you'll just think your going there for an improvement teleportation holiday.

[XD 351 Ute]

Originally Posted by Bucknaked

Beam me up Scotty. I'll be glad when we all have our own teleporter in our houses. No more air travel or travel of any kind. Push a button and your there.

I'll be happy as long as we can get a V8 one........

Ed

[Blue Oval Mopar Man]

Originally Posted by Ives

It's only a matter of time till we warp around to places.

"And we remember , Doin the time warp! "

Maybe so , But am not , under ANY circumstance , EVER dressing up like Craig Macglauglan did in the Rocky Horror Picture Show !

[King Nothing]

This would be so cool, imagine how empty the roads would be! :eclipsee_

[gtfpv]

Originally Posted by King Nothing

This would be so cool, imagine how empty the roads would be! :eclipsee_

or 400m teleportation drags . .00000015 sec or .00000014 with a tune.

[mcflux]

^^^ intercoolers would be even more important :P

[EdFairmontGhia]

Originally Posted by kremmen

Don't get a fly caught in there with ya when u teleport, we all know what happens next.......................................

something like this might happen

[M&Ms]

The state governement will undoubtedly put speed cameras in the teleportation chambers though. And we're back to to square one....

[XR6_661]

Can my car come?

[Peuty]

Originally Posted by kremmen

Don't get a fly caught in there with ya when u teleport, we all know what happens next.......................................

Bart the Fly-Boy!