Friday, December 26, 2008

New Scientist Space Blog: Teleportation: fact or fiction? - New Scientist

Teleportation is a cheap green technology to travel the multiverse .

Physicists have teleported individual particles of light called photons across distances of more than 3 kilometres, according to Farhi (below, right), who heads MIT's Center for Theoretical Physics, and have also teleported particles of matter such as electrons.

He said that it should not be too difficult to increase the distances to thousands of kilometres or even interstellar distances, but that teleporting something as complicated as a human, as opposed to single particles, would be much more difficult.

"That really is pretty far down the line," he said. "A living creature probably has 1030 [1 followed by 30 zeros] particles in it ? and to get all the information about that to some distant location looks really pretty formidable. I cannot see that as something in the reasonable future."

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