Quantum Teleportation
This is pretty exciting news. While it may seem like a small step, this opens lots of doors, and can help to inspire new ideas or interest people in improving on this design.
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Originally posted by Squishy:
Even better news is that if successful, we could actually rid the world of starvation and poverty, the original (say lasagne)could be measured then sent to many devices instantaneously around the world where your copies would appear
Sounds great, but take two thigns into consideration:
1) E=mc^2, right every knows that one. But not everyone knows what it means. It says that matter can be convertered into energy and vise-sersa. To create a lasagne out of nothing (but signals) will require a lot of energy! I mean more energy then we could ever harness (at least anytime soon)
2) Cloning food also seems like a way to end world hunger. But people oppose it because it fake, its spliced, its not organic. Blah blah blah. So don’t expect everyone to accept it immediatly if it porves viable. Just like nuclear fusion. No one will accept it because it has the [i]N[/i] word in it. And since it produces radiation, it therefore must be evil in their eyes. (Cancer is treated with radiation, and radion nuclides are essential in some watches and most smoke detectors, but people quickly forget these examples, and instead remember TMI-2, Chernobyl, and nuclear weapons) I’m sure that in the stone age, there was some ignoramous who said “don’t use fire, it can be dangerous”, but s/he probably died a painful death of food poisoning; whereas the fire users ate cooked germ free food, and lived on. (only to die a more painful death from a saber tooth tiger, but thats besides the point)