I, for one, am sorely disappointed by the deception laid on us by some scientists in an obvious ploy to get more funding. The headline says Teleportation Breakthrough Made, and I became excited for the prospects of being beamed to Rome for Thanksgiving.
Then I start reading the article and it's nothing like I thought it was going to be. They're not even talking about teleportation -- they're talking about transmission of energy states between entangled atoms instantaneously, something that bugged Einstein.
Speaking of bugs, there wasn't even a 100% transfer of an identical state -- the technical term is fidelity. There was not full fidelity, but only 75% fidelity. And it comes as no surprise that this was the same result predicted by the infamous experiments conducted in 1958 and recorded by Andre and Francois Delambre.
Posted by Bill at June 22, 2004 02:50 PMI always get excited when they have stories like this then I realize that even if it did work out I would be the one that ends up like the Fly!
Posted by: Jeff A at June 23, 2004 02:42 AMBilly sorry you will not be able to be teletransported to Rome. Sadly you will have to continue to join the masses and use the plane.
Posted by: Michelle at June 23, 2004 02:51 AMThanks for explaining that. I read it, and think I got about one word out of seven.
Posted by: TW at June 23, 2004 01:27 PMyou people all reject teleportation...