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Title: Matter into Light And Back...
Description: ...Teleportation Beginings, Anyone?


IceMetalPunk - August 13, 2006 06:29 PM (GMT)
Read this: http://www.findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_...v18/ai_20074788

In that article, it mentions that scientists, using strong magnetic feilds and lasers, have converted photons of light into matter. And of course we can turn matter into light (think about the flash after an atomic or nuclear detonation).

ATM, the matter created from light is at the subatomic level, but considering a few years ago we couldn't get ANY matter from light (and the strength and precision of modern lasers), it's only a matter of time before we can create atoms from light that, because of valences, self-assemble into compounds, and then into materials.

So, is this the beginning of optical teleportation (as in, an object is converted into a light pattern, which is sent through optical fibers, and then converted back into matter on the other end)?

-IMP ;) :)

Genericun - December 16, 2006 03:38 PM (GMT)
The idea of using this to teleport seems a little dangerous and farfetched to me. The first problem is that they'd need the proper light signatures in the right pattern in order to make an exact copy somewhere else. Even if you got the particles in the right positions, they might not bond in the proper patterns, completely ruining whatever you sent, and ruining somebodys day if you sent a living being. Making that copy would involve making antimatter at the same time, and unless controlled properly, it would annihilate immediately and destroy whatever it is you sent and the lab it has been seen to. If you don't let it annihilate, then you would end up with a collection of antimatter copies of things that would only take up more and more space. suppose you managed to send something that was living. If antimatter functions the same as regular matter, just with opposite polarities, you'd have copies of whatever or whoever locked in a small room gradually dying horribly unless you repeatedly sent them antioxygen and antisandwiches. You could end up with an army of antibusinessmen created only for their matter counterparts business trips. For that matter, what happens to the original copy of the object wherever it came from? If antimatter doesn't at the same as regular matter, then who knows what abominations you'll make. You'd also face logistical problems because this requires an extremely powerful laser and a particle accelerator, such as the two mile long one cited in the article.

What you may find interesting is that scientists have found a way to 'lock up' antimatter, allowing them to study it, and have even begun making antihydrogen. http://www.space.com/scienceastronomy/gene...gen_020918.html . It remains to be seen if it acts like regular hydrogen and if they are able to make more complex elements or molecules/compounds.

maxnight1189 - May 31, 2007 04:27 AM (GMT)
dude, its just a magnetic field. Nothing exciting about "locking it up", unless you find your refrigerator fascinating.

Also, as soon as the anti-matter produced in said teleportation was created, it would annihilate with some matter in our world. You know: air, the ground, your supposed "room of anti-people"'s walls/floor/ceiling. Boom! No anti-people. yay

But I do agree with you on the whole arrangement thing. Theres nothing to force all the particles to re bond in the correct fashion when they are spit put at the other end. But, i dont think IMP(haha, now i get your avatar...) was saying 'yay, now we can run out and build a teleportation machine.' I think he was looking alittle farther down the road.

Some other "teleportation technologies" people have been talking about are:

*Quantum Entanglement(making two or more particles COMPLETELY indistinguishable)
*Bose-Einstein Condensate(uh, I dont remember exactly...i think it had to do with bringing out the wave nature of matter...look it up)
*Wormholes(you know, big blue things that "flush sideways" according to richard dean anderson)




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