Teleportation (Not Psi)

[furmen]

First off, I'd like to say again from the title, this is NOT psionic related, now lets get onto the article.

Now you may be wondering why I'm even talking about this if it's not about psionics, but it's actually a part of proven Quantum Mechanics that actually works today!

Now you're thinking, "Wait, if this is possible today, why aren't we teleporting back and forth the places rather than driving cars and using space shuttles and crap like that?" There's a simple answer to this. First we need to understand a few things on how teleportation currently works and the reason you might not want to try it in the first place.

In 1998, physicists at the California Institute of Technology (Caltech), along with two European groups, turned the IBM ideas into reality by successfully teleporting a photon, a particle of energy that carries light. They read the atomic structure of a photon particle and sent it several feet away in the room instantly, without the space between point A and point B. This also means they got around the Heisenberg Uncertainty Principle... don't ask, it's a long story. Essentially this principle states that you cannot know the location and speed of a particle, as if you were to observe it, you would bump it and cause it to "change" (again with changing in quantum physics...annoying no?)

They get around this principle, not by breaking it, but by bypassing it while still following it's laws. This is a process known as "Engtanglement", which requires a minimum of 3 photon particles.
Photon A: Teleported Photon
Photon B: Transporting Photon
Photon C: Entangling Photon

Pretty much we attach photon B with C which B collects information from A which sends it past C and destroys A. At the end of the length (The destination) a replica of A is created with the exact same data.

Now can you see from the last paragraph why you probably wouldn't want to try teleportation? I'll continue going indepth on this.

First of all, it would require a major super computer capable of processing trillions upon trillions of atomic data from each and every single one of your atoms within your atomic makeup, and would then have to be able to ship all that data (Transmit) to it's destination location, at which another super computer would need to read and arrange all this data back exactly the way it was originally.

Essentially this would only copy you, similar to copy and paste on a computer right? Wrong, more like "Cut and paste". When the atomic structure's data is transmitted, the original body (you) will be destroyed. Meaning you will die. Though all your thoughts, memories, thought patterns, etc are atomically structured within the system transfer. So technically you're still alive, if you count your thoughts and memories being what really makes you you. Then again, if it's your brain and body that make you you, then consider yourself deceased.

You could say that teleportation is nothing more than killing an original copy and cloning it on another end to say that you're there. So yeah, it works, works well in fact, but would you really trust it to keep you "alive"? I wouldn't.

Not only that, but imagine the errors in your body if everything wasn't arranged perfectly. You could quite possibly have problems in your nervous system, brain, psychological disorders that weren't originally there, missing limbs or things on your body just hideously disfigured.

.... Sign me up baby! Woo.

Though, generally speaking, I think this also might be how psionic teleportation would work as well. In many places at least. I generally wanted to give everyone an idea why teleportation might not be that great of an idea.

Wormholes on the other hand, is another story, but I'll write an article on it later on when I complete my multiple dimensions article.

[Mat Ethers]

Nice article. You get Exalted.

This is really interesting. I already knew that they had teleported a photon but I never knew the little details.

I'm really interested in quantum physics and hope to one day study it at University. I could start University now but my teachers wont let me skip 1 grade let alone 3, even though I've taught myself my whole high school curriculum. And quantum physics isn't really something you can teach yourself from the web, and trying to find any books about it where I live is like impossible.

Worm holes are interesting, I know a bit about them from what little information I have found on the web, the rest is just using brute logic to fill the gaps.

I did that with relativity too, but I think I may be wrong when I figured out after only knowing that accelerating makes you heavier, I figured the following: In accelerating you OBSERVE (I know observation is a big thing in all this) all things in a different "time" in the fact that you are accelerating towards something which makes it affect you quicker than what you are accelerating away from which affects you slower. Which is a bend in space time (now this is were I think I may have screwed up with my reasoning) which of course is gravity and gravity is mass hence you get heavier.

You may be able to tell me how wrong I got that?

Anyway what I'm really trying to say is I look forward to more of your articles.

[furmen]

timelord said:

Nice article. You get Exalted.

This is really interesting. I already knew that they had teleported a photon but I never knew the little details.

I'm really interested in quantum physics and hope to one day study it at University. I could start University now but my teachers wont let me skip 1 grade let alone 3, even though I've taught myself my whole high school curriculum. And quantum physics isn't really something you can teach yourself from the web, and trying to find any books about it where I live is like impossible.

Worm holes are interesting, I know a bit about them from what little information I have found on the web, the rest is just using brute logic to fill the gaps.

I did that with relativity too, but I think I may be wrong when I figured out after only knowing that accelerating makes you heavier, I figured the following: In accelerating you OBSERVE (I know observation is a big thing in all this) all things in a different "time" in the fact that you are accelerating towards something which makes it affect you quicker than what you are accelerating away from which affects you slower. Which is a bend in space time (now this is were I think I may have screwed up with my reasoning) which of course is gravity and gravity is mass hence you get heavier.

You may be able to tell me how wrong I got that?

Anyway what I'm really trying to say is I look forward to more of your articles.

Actually, resulting in your comment from the perception of time changes in accordance to speed, you may want to research a little bit on what's called the "Twin Paradox".

In theory, the faster you move, the faster time moves. The fasted known speed we can possibly accelerate is the speed of light as even mass that falls into black holes move up to the speed of light and no faster to the best of our knowledge.

Understanding this concept, the faster you move, the slower time becomes. Theoretically if you're moving at the speed of light, time will seem to stop.

The Twin Paradox explains this a bit. For say you have identical twins with synchronized watches down to the millisecond. One leaves Earth and starts traveling faster and faster and faster, then turns back around and continues the same speed if not going faster back to Earth where he originally came from. They check their watches. Whereas the person traveling would've only noticed for minutes or hours, the person on Earth experienced days, weeks to years. The twins look back to where the original twin left and (allegedly) they should still see the original twin that left still flying through space, regardless of the fact that he's back on Earth all over again.

That's the twin paradox.

As far as becoming heavier as you go faster, that's also correct. Though if you think about astronauts launching into space, they experience far more G's of force than someone does on a plane breaking the sound barrier. Designs in full body suits that pressurize your blood and body and the position your body is in can help keep you from either passing out or dieing in such speeds, though the speed of light is guaranteed to kill you, at least I would think.

So if someone were to fall into the event horizon of a black hole, for instance, they would be traveling in the speed of light, and though you may not be able to see them any longer for the rest of your life, you can pretty well rest assured that they're still falling in the black hole still, as young as they were when you last saw them long after you're in the grave. Though still, this is all theoretical.

[Mat Ethers]

I have heard of this twin paradox, just in a slightly different form but the underlying meaning was the same. My brain is still ticking away trying to figure out the why. I think I need to spend a bit of time researching this after I finish my years homework (should only take me a week).

Maths/Physics is my first priority for university, along with 3 other subjects, I hope to complete them all hopefully, however that's going to take a large chunk of time out of my life (maybe I should speed up the rest of the universe so more time passes for me but It's only a couple of days for them xD) I'll find some way to get them all done after all I'll be teaching myself Uni level maths this year because I've almost completed the 4 unit (highest maths level in the Aus high school system) maths text book, and I've still got another 3 years until I finish high school.

Anyway back on topic I'm rambling, yeah I really like physics and seem to be able to easily get my head around topics that confuse the hell out of most people and then explain them to people in cool little metaphors so they can understand...

(My only downfall as you can see is my mind moves so fast I can't stay on on topic for long).

[furmen]

You may have heard the version of the twin paradox in which the twin on Earth sends a signalled messaged every so often and the twin traveling receives less messages than what was sent leaving, then receives more messages than sent when coming back.

First the messages are slow, then they come really quick. The messages also seem to be getting longer and longer apart from each other the faster the leaving twin moves even though the twin on Earth is timing them perfectly even.

There's a common saying amongst those that study Quantum Physics and Mechanics. If Quantum Physics hasn't shocked you, then you really don't understand it.

[Mat Ethers]

Yeah that's the version of the paradox I have heard. And now the whole traveling forward thing makes sense, because as he is traveling away (if he reached the speed of light) time would stop in RELATION to earth but as he came back it would happen twice as fast thrusting him into the future.

I get it now!

Quantum physics has shocked me. I just get it as well as a complete newbie teaching himself can. I still don't get most of it and don't know WHY it does what it does I just know a bit of what it does and a very extremely rough theoretical version of why.

[furmen]

One thing to understand is that quantum physics is full of theories. It's really the study of trying to figure out the base of what makes up the universe. Though the studies of what makes all this up creates further questions, ideas and theories that branch out in other things.

There's even strange paradox's involving time travel.... several of them really.

First is the old and well known "Grandfather Paradox" where you go back in time and kill someone who was one of your ancestors, thus preventing your birth, but if this happened, you wouldn't have been around to go back in time to do so in the first place. Endless loop it would seem.

One paradox in which you can only slightly alter the past to which the same outcome always comes forth. Say you were playing pool and knocked a ball into a time warp adjusted so that it would appear before you struck the white ball to a point in which it only slightly hits the white ball, but the ball that transported will continue to transport again.

Another one is in which you go back in time to prevent a mysterious hotel fire that killed hundreds of hotel residents, and while searching for the possible cause of the fire, you knock over a lantern and cause the fire, so you were, in fact, the cause of the fire.

The list does go on and on.

[Mat Ethers]

Oh I've had experience with Time related paradoxes. I think it comes with being a die hard Doctor Who fan, and writing a Novel (In the process of) which revolves largely around the theme of Time Travel. I've had to do a fair bit of research about said paradoxes because they play a key point in the story line.

Oh, by the way I've signed up for your site.

[furmen]

Thanks for signing up to the forum, but I'll be honest about my site. It's very likely to progress extremely slow.

[Mat Ethers]

Well Rome wasn't built in a day xD. I'll do what I can to help it along.