Post by NatureDevil on Jun 18, 2004 13:16:25 GMT -6
This is cool, I thought you guys might like this.
According to a few different news sources, scientists have been able to make properties from one atom jump to another atom without the use of a physical link. Yup, like beaming crap from one starship to another in science fiction television. Fiction mirrors reality and vice versa.
Anyway, scientists were able to do this with light a few years ago, but now they did it with matter, calling it "quantum states" of matter. They said that even though this may not lead to beaming people and large things around, it may lead to really fast computers. They have already coined it as "quantum computing."
"Using teleportation as we've reported could allow logic operations to be performed much more quickly," as said by physicist David Wineland, the leader of the NIST team (National Institute of Standards and Technology).
So even though some things in science are being held back, at least others are moving forward, even if it may be simply because more money can be made from this than anything we like.
Then again, that's life.
NatureDevil
According to a few different news sources, scientists have been able to make properties from one atom jump to another atom without the use of a physical link. Yup, like beaming crap from one starship to another in science fiction television. Fiction mirrors reality and vice versa.
Anyway, scientists were able to do this with light a few years ago, but now they did it with matter, calling it "quantum states" of matter. They said that even though this may not lead to beaming people and large things around, it may lead to really fast computers. They have already coined it as "quantum computing."
"Using teleportation as we've reported could allow logic operations to be performed much more quickly," as said by physicist David Wineland, the leader of the NIST team (National Institute of Standards and Technology).
So even though some things in science are being held back, at least others are moving forward, even if it may be simply because more money can be made from this than anything we like.
Then again, that's life.
NatureDevil
