Sci-Fi Technology

[Dee]

What are some gadgets you've seen in movies, television, read about in a book or just imagined yourself that you wish existed today?

 

[Nebulous's iconNebulous]

Teleportation devices! That would be awesome. Your job could be anywhere in the world and you could just get there in a second.

Lets say we're holding a Off Topix meet-up, everyone could just beam themselves to that location and we could party it up!

 

[Dee]

Teleportation devices! That would be awesome. Your job could be anywhere in the world and you could just get there in a second.

Lets say we're holding a Off Topix meet-up, everyone could just beam themselves to that location and we could party it up!

"Travel companies" could really bank on this if the equipment used to teleport people cost a fortune. xD That's a good idea, though! Maybe one day it'll exist.

 

[DrLeftover]

Teleportation devices! That would be awesome. Your job could be anywhere in the world and you could just get there in a second.

Don't schedule the party just yet....

But....

Teleportation Is Real and Here’s Why it Matters
30 May 2014

It ain't the stuff of Star Trek, but quantum physics can make it possible to do things that mystified even Einstein

The future has a way of becoming the past. Men on the moon? Check. Picture phones? Thank you, Skype. But teleportation? Not so much. The idea of breaking yourself down to your constituent molecules, beaming yourself across space and reassembling somewhere else sounds cool, but there are problems. For one, there’s The Fly. For another, it’s monstrously difficult.
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But teleporting information is another matter. And in a new study just published in Science, researchers at the Delft Institute of Technology in The Netherlands have revealed that they’ve done just that—sort of.

What the Dutch physicists did involved something called quantum entanglement, which Einstein once described as “spooky action at a distance,” a term that pretty much describes what it is.

http://time.com/2800071/teleportation-quantum-entanglement/



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[Nebulous's iconNebulous]

Teleportation devices! That would be awesome. Your job could be anywhere in the world and you could just get there in a second.

Lets say we're holding a Off Topix meet-up, everyone could just beam themselves to that location and we could party it up!

"Travel companies" could really bank on this if the equipment used to teleport people cost a fortune. xD That's a good idea, though! Maybe one day it'll exist.

Aww, I want it to be free. Or like buying a car, once you own it, its yours.