Star Trek Transporter is closer than you think.

borgslayer · **Fri Sep 12, 2003 8:38 pm Star Trek Transporter is closer than you think.**

Yes, 2 scientist in Denmark transported matter from one side to the other.

They broke down a matter into small pieces then through photon they transported the matter to the other side 100yards away and reconstructed it.

This would mean, I might be able to go to japan in less than 5sec from the US side

In the near future if they figure out how to transport people from one side to the other without killing them.

Kyle Reese · **Fri Sep 12, 2003 8:43 pm**

Where did you read that?

PrankishSmart · **Sat Sep 13, 2003 1:37 am**

That experiment happened years ago. They also transported light photons, not matter. If it was matter, it would be very big news.

We are a very long way away from transporting matter, even much longer away for transporting living organisms.

borgslayer · **Sat Sep 13, 2003 4:25 pm**

Search teleportation technology on google.com

PrankishSmart · **Sat Sep 13, 2003 10:35 pm**

Why?

I did that, and found the news article about 2 denmark scientists who caused a light particle to interact with another across the room. This was in 1998.

Captain Michael Pike · Captain Joined: 14 Jul 2001 Posts: 597 Location: PA

The Heisenberg Uncertainty Principle disallows the theory of matter transportation. It states:

It is physically impossible to measure both the exact position and the exact momentum of a particle at the same time. The more precisely one of the quantities is measured, the less precisely the other is known. Because of the small value of h in everyday units, this principle is only significant on the atomic scale.

This means that if we can determine what momentum we would like to impart upon a particle, we will be unable to determine the location of where the particle will arrive. Though there is a 99% chance that the particle's location could theoretically be predicted, there is a 1% chance that the particle could end up on the other side of the universe.

Not bad you say? Consider what would happen to you if 50% percent of all of the billions of atoms in your body decided to migrate to the other side of the universe. Floating in a void of space would be the atoms from your liver, heart, kidneys, brains...etc. Would you want to live with that 1% uncertainty knowing you would rematerialize incompletely and die?

That's why the technobabble geeks at ST came up with the Heisenberg compensator as part of their repetoire. This way they could tachnobabble their way out of a theoretical impossibility.

IntrepidIsMe · **Sat Sep 20, 2003 7:08 pm**

Exactley, it's a "Theoretical Impossiblity" . Which dosn't meen it is impossible.

Dax Orien · **Fri Oct 03, 2003 9:13 am**

I believe nothing is impossible.

"Improbable, unlikely, but never impossible!" - John Leguizamo as Luigi Mario in Super Mario Bros. The Movie

webtaz99 · **Fri Nov 14, 2003 2:09 am Nothing**

If you really belive "nothing" is impossible, look at my bank account.

raziel · Crewman Joined: 10 Dec 2006 Posts: 4 Location: Sarajevo

Why would anyone transport a photon ?
Photons are moving by themselves anyway:D
Any way moving one particle from one place to another is no big deal!
when they (scientists) move something bigger (an apple for an example) from one place to another than that will be a news!

5thhouse · **Tue Dec 12, 2006 4:14 pm**

The very scientists transporting sub-atomic particals say that they technology cannot be applied to actual matter. It is a practical impossibility in those lines, it isn't only a theoretical one.

Valathous · **Tue Dec 12, 2006 7:26 pm**

Locking this topic since it was 3 years old before being ressurected today.