<!--QuoteBegin--></div><table border='0' align='center' width='95%' cellpadding='3' cellspacing='1'><tr><td><b>QUOTE</b> </td></tr><tr><td id='QUOTE'><!--QuoteEBegin--> ..it was a photon.. not a atom... and its just hyped as teleportation.... the process was more a "cloning with destruction of the original" process.. simply spoken... very complicated quantum physics stuff<!--QuoteEnd--></td></tr></table><div class='postcolor'><!--QuoteEEnd-->
Ahh well i wasent far off, was many years ago i watched the program lol.
..it was a photon.. not a atom... and its just hyped as teleportation.... the process was more a "cloning with destruction of the original" process.. simply spoken... very complicated quantum physics stuff <!--QuoteEnd--> </td></tr></table><div class='postcolor'> <!--QuoteEEnd--> Quantum Teleportation? I remember that.
<!--QuoteBegin-Nemesis Zero+Apr 19 2005, 11:18 AM--></div><table border='0' align='center' width='95%' cellpadding='3' cellspacing='1'><tr><td><b>QUOTE</b> (Nemesis Zero @ Apr 19 2005, 11:18 AM)</td></tr><tr><td id='QUOTE'><!--QuoteEBegin--> This is cool and everything, but what's the point in a flying car? Last time I checked, those on the ground were already quite fast, efficient, and safe.
I can see this having a future in niché sectors, but I doubt we'll ever see the advent of personal flight as a mainstream concept. <!--QuoteEnd--></td></tr></table><div class='postcolor'><!--QuoteEEnd--> Except not. Cars are not fast, they're not efficient, and they're just as unsafe as these flying cars. They've been getting <i>faster, more efficient and safer</i>, but that does not make them any of the three. Here in the United States, the speed limit on highways runs +/- 5 mph around one mile per minute. That's slow. Increase that to 1.5 - 1.7 miles per minute, and we can start talking about fast.
Flying cars are capable of easily 5 times the speed limit of our current highways. 5 miles per minute is far faster than 1 mile per minute.
Unless everything in your life is within a 5 minute drive, you will want a flying car. If you're like me, and commute 20 minutes to work, 30 minutes to girl's place, 15 minutes to parent's, and would like to go across the country to visit family, flying cars make complete sense. Besides stopping for gas, food, bathroom, etc, I could fly across the country with no layover.
..it was a photon.. not a atom... and its just hyped as teleportation.... the process was more a "cloning with destruction of the original" process.. simply spoken... very complicated quantum physics stuff <!--QuoteEnd--></td></tr></table><div class='postcolor'><!--QuoteEEnd-->
I don't believe it, really. How the hell do they know the photon they're looking at is really the one the started with? Quantum leaps (or when quantum particles randomly "jump" energy levels to a more stable one, and thusly move instantaneously around) happen quite often, not to mention there's so bloody MANY photons in any sample containing light you can think of, it's far too likely in my mind that they simply said, "Oh, look, here's a photon. And look, here's ANOTHER PHOTON! It HAS to be the same one! Well, ladies and gents, crack open the bubbly, we just made history."
Actually, and more interestingly, according to our resident big brain Stephan Hawking, even our entire Universe has the capablility to "leap" into another universe spontaneously, and in so doing, completely alter the laws of physics. But such an event only happens once every 2 or 3 universe life spans, though, plus this is getting a bit off topic.
<!--QuoteBegin-illuminex+Apr 19 2005, 07:06 PM--></div><table border='0' align='center' width='95%' cellpadding='3' cellspacing='1'><tr><td><b>QUOTE</b> (illuminex @ Apr 19 2005, 07:06 PM)</td></tr><tr><td id='QUOTE'><!--QuoteEBegin--> Except not. Cars are not fast, they're not efficient, and they're just as unsafe as these flying cars. They've been getting <i>faster, more efficient and safer</i> <!--QuoteEnd--> </td></tr></table><div class='postcolor'> <!--QuoteEEnd--> Good point, anything's relative. But seeing that we are dealing with a flying system based on relatively new technology here, I'd argue that at least <i>safer</i> and <i>more efficient</i> will stay on ground transportation's side for a little while longer. Seeing the constantly rising oil prices, that might just be the kind of argument to break the neck of these concepts.
<!--QuoteBegin--></div><table border='0' align='center' width='95%' cellpadding='3' cellspacing='1'><tr><td><b>QUOTE</b> </td></tr><tr><td id='QUOTE'><!--QuoteEBegin-->Flying cars are capable of easily 5 times the speed limit of our current highways. 5 miles per minute is far faster than 1 mile per minute. <!--QuoteEnd--></td></tr></table><div class='postcolor'><!--QuoteEEnd--> I could land a few cheap shots about the Autobahn here, couldn't I? <!--emo&:p--><img src='http://www.unknownworlds.com/forums/html/emoticons/tounge.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='tounge.gif' /><!--endemo-->
Seriously, we will have to see how fast a skycar could feasibly go within the NASA system before you can start calling the shots there. Lift the speed limits off your highways and you'd be surprised how fast you'd get faster cars.
<!--QuoteBegin--></div><table border='0' align='center' width='95%' cellpadding='3' cellspacing='1'><tr><td><b>QUOTE</b> </td></tr><tr><td id='QUOTE'><!--QuoteEBegin-->Unless everything in your life is within a 5 minute drive, you will want a flying car. If you're like me, and commute 20 minutes to work, 30 minutes to girl's place, 15 minutes to parent's, and would like to go across the country to visit family, flying cars make complete sense. Besides stopping for gas, food, bathroom, etc, I could fly across the country with no layover. <!--QuoteEnd--></td></tr></table><div class='postcolor'><!--QuoteEEnd--> I live 400 km from each of my parents, have friends in cities 200 and 600 km from here, and visit all regularily. Believe me, I know the advantages of fast commuting systems, but speed is not the only parameter here. If your skycar cost you twice as much gas as your car in addition to the higher costs of buying one, which would you take?
..it was a photon.. not a atom... and its just hyped as teleportation.... the process was more a "cloning with destruction of the original" process.. simply spoken... very complicated quantum physics stuff <!--QuoteEnd--></td></tr></table><div class='postcolor'><!--QuoteEEnd-->
I don't believe it, really. How the hell do they know the photon they're looking at is really the one the started with? Quantum leaps (or when quantum particles randomly "jump" energy levels to a more stable one, and thusly move instantaneously around) happen quite often, not to mention there's so bloody MANY photons in any sample containing light you can think of, it's far too likely in my mind that they simply said, "Oh, look, here's a photon. And look, here's ANOTHER PHOTON! It HAS to be the same one! Well, ladies and gents, crack open the bubbly, we just made history."
Actually, and more interestingly, according to our resident big brain Stephan Hawking, even our entire Universe has the capablility to "leap" into another universe spontaneously, and in so doing, completely alter the laws of physics. But such an event only happens once every 2 or 3 universe life spans, though, plus this is getting a bit off topic. <!--QuoteEnd--> </td></tr></table><div class='postcolor'> <!--QuoteEEnd--> Quantum Teleportation has been the subject of intense study. It's not just a bunch of rednecks turning their flashlights on and off in their trailer park. We'll see who's laughing when I teleport to your house and steal everything. <insert necrosis laugh>
..it was a photon.. not a atom... and its just hyped as teleportation.... the process was more a "cloning with destruction of the original" process.. simply spoken... very complicated quantum physics stuff <!--QuoteEnd--></td></tr></table><div class='postcolor'><!--QuoteEEnd-->
I don't believe it, really. How the hell do they know the photon they're looking at is really the one the started with? Quantum leaps (or when quantum particles randomly "jump" energy levels to a more stable one, and thusly move instantaneously around) happen quite often, not to mention there's so bloody MANY photons in any sample containing light you can think of, it's far too likely in my mind that they simply said, "Oh, look, here's a photon. And look, here's ANOTHER PHOTON! It HAS to be the same one! Well, ladies and gents, crack open the bubbly, we just made history."
Actually, and more interestingly, according to our resident big brain Stephan Hawking, even our entire Universe has the capablility to "leap" into another universe spontaneously, and in so doing, completely alter the laws of physics. But such an event only happens once every 2 or 3 universe life spans, though, plus this is getting a bit off topic. <!--QuoteEnd--></td></tr></table><div class='postcolor'><!--QuoteEEnd--> its based on the Einstein-Podolsky-Rosen correlation, more commonly known as entanglement.... einstein himself was describing this effect as "spooky" because of its nature: altering one particle of an entangled pair causes the other to be affected a highly correlated way without any communication between the two, and this in real time,instantly; simple spoken, both particles are basicly the same..they contain the same "information" this effect would enable us to transfer informations instantly over unlimited distances.. now what you have to do is to "inject" information into a photon ,entangle it with another photon used as blank so it gets the same kind of information, "untangle" it , and destroy the original..bang... thats it... in fact its more complex than that.. a bit to complex for my small mind...
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Ahh well i wasent far off, was many years ago i watched the program lol.
..it was a photon.. not a atom... and its just hyped as teleportation.... the process was more a "cloning with destruction of the original" process.. simply spoken... very complicated quantum physics stuff <!--QuoteEnd--> </td></tr></table><div class='postcolor'> <!--QuoteEEnd-->
Quantum Teleportation? I remember that.
I can see this having a future in niché sectors, but I doubt we'll ever see the advent of personal flight as a mainstream concept. <!--QuoteEnd--></td></tr></table><div class='postcolor'><!--QuoteEEnd-->
Except not. Cars are not fast, they're not efficient, and they're just as unsafe as these flying cars. They've been getting <i>faster, more efficient and safer</i>, but that does not make them any of the three. Here in the United States, the speed limit on highways runs +/- 5 mph around one mile per minute. That's slow. Increase that to 1.5 - 1.7 miles per minute, and we can start talking about fast.
Flying cars are capable of easily 5 times the speed limit of our current highways. 5 miles per minute is far faster than 1 mile per minute.
Unless everything in your life is within a 5 minute drive, you will want a flying car. If you're like me, and commute 20 minutes to work, 30 minutes to girl's place, 15 minutes to parent's, and would like to go across the country to visit family, flying cars make complete sense. Besides stopping for gas, food, bathroom, etc, I could fly across the country with no layover.
Duh.
..it was a photon.. not a atom... and its just hyped as teleportation.... the process was more a "cloning with destruction of the original" process.. simply spoken... very complicated quantum physics stuff <!--QuoteEnd--></td></tr></table><div class='postcolor'><!--QuoteEEnd-->
I don't believe it, really. How the hell do they know the photon they're looking at is really the one the started with? Quantum leaps (or when quantum particles randomly "jump" energy levels to a more stable one, and thusly move instantaneously around) happen quite often, not to mention there's so bloody MANY photons in any sample containing light you can think of, it's far too likely in my mind that they simply said, "Oh, look, here's a photon. And look, here's ANOTHER PHOTON! It HAS to be the same one! Well, ladies and gents, crack open the bubbly, we just made history."
Actually, and more interestingly, according to our resident big brain Stephan Hawking, even our entire Universe has the capablility to "leap" into another universe spontaneously, and in so doing, completely alter the laws of physics. But such an event only happens once every 2 or 3 universe life spans, though, plus this is getting a bit off topic.
Good point, anything's relative. But seeing that we are dealing with a flying system based on relatively new technology here, I'd argue that at least <i>safer</i> and <i>more efficient</i> will stay on ground transportation's side for a little while longer. Seeing the constantly rising oil prices, that might just be the kind of argument to break the neck of these concepts.
<!--QuoteBegin--></div><table border='0' align='center' width='95%' cellpadding='3' cellspacing='1'><tr><td><b>QUOTE</b> </td></tr><tr><td id='QUOTE'><!--QuoteEBegin-->Flying cars are capable of easily 5 times the speed limit of our current highways. 5 miles per minute is far faster than 1 mile per minute. <!--QuoteEnd--></td></tr></table><div class='postcolor'><!--QuoteEEnd-->
I could land a few cheap shots about the Autobahn here, couldn't I? <!--emo&:p--><img src='http://www.unknownworlds.com/forums/html/emoticons/tounge.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='tounge.gif' /><!--endemo-->
Seriously, we will have to see how fast a skycar could feasibly go within the NASA system before you can start calling the shots there. Lift the speed limits off your highways and you'd be surprised how fast you'd get faster cars.
<!--QuoteBegin--></div><table border='0' align='center' width='95%' cellpadding='3' cellspacing='1'><tr><td><b>QUOTE</b> </td></tr><tr><td id='QUOTE'><!--QuoteEBegin-->Unless everything in your life is within a 5 minute drive, you will want a flying car. If you're like me, and commute 20 minutes to work, 30 minutes to girl's place, 15 minutes to parent's, and would like to go across the country to visit family, flying cars make complete sense. Besides stopping for gas, food, bathroom, etc, I could fly across the country with no layover. <!--QuoteEnd--></td></tr></table><div class='postcolor'><!--QuoteEEnd-->
I live 400 km from each of my parents, have friends in cities 200 and 600 km from here, and visit all regularily. Believe me, I know the advantages of fast commuting systems, but speed is not the only parameter here. If your skycar cost you twice as much gas as your car in addition to the higher costs of buying one, which would you take?
..it was a photon.. not a atom... and its just hyped as teleportation.... the process was more a "cloning with destruction of the original" process.. simply spoken... very complicated quantum physics stuff <!--QuoteEnd--></td></tr></table><div class='postcolor'><!--QuoteEEnd-->
I don't believe it, really. How the hell do they know the photon they're looking at is really the one the started with? Quantum leaps (or when quantum particles randomly "jump" energy levels to a more stable one, and thusly move instantaneously around) happen quite often, not to mention there's so bloody MANY photons in any sample containing light you can think of, it's far too likely in my mind that they simply said, "Oh, look, here's a photon. And look, here's ANOTHER PHOTON! It HAS to be the same one! Well, ladies and gents, crack open the bubbly, we just made history."
Actually, and more interestingly, according to our resident big brain Stephan Hawking, even our entire Universe has the capablility to "leap" into another universe spontaneously, and in so doing, completely alter the laws of physics. But such an event only happens once every 2 or 3 universe life spans, though, plus this is getting a bit off topic. <!--QuoteEnd--> </td></tr></table><div class='postcolor'> <!--QuoteEEnd-->
Quantum Teleportation has been the subject of intense study. It's not just a bunch of rednecks turning their flashlights on and off in their trailer park. We'll see who's laughing when I teleport to your house and steal everything. <insert necrosis laugh>
..it was a photon.. not a atom... and its just hyped as teleportation.... the process was more a "cloning with destruction of the original" process.. simply spoken... very complicated quantum physics stuff <!--QuoteEnd--></td></tr></table><div class='postcolor'><!--QuoteEEnd-->
I don't believe it, really. How the hell do they know the photon they're looking at is really the one the started with? Quantum leaps (or when quantum particles randomly "jump" energy levels to a more stable one, and thusly move instantaneously around) happen quite often, not to mention there's so bloody MANY photons in any sample containing light you can think of, it's far too likely in my mind that they simply said, "Oh, look, here's a photon. And look, here's ANOTHER PHOTON! It HAS to be the same one! Well, ladies and gents, crack open the bubbly, we just made history."
Actually, and more interestingly, according to our resident big brain Stephan Hawking, even our entire Universe has the capablility to "leap" into another universe spontaneously, and in so doing, completely alter the laws of physics. But such an event only happens once every 2 or 3 universe life spans, though, plus this is getting a bit off topic. <!--QuoteEnd--></td></tr></table><div class='postcolor'><!--QuoteEEnd-->
its based on the Einstein-Podolsky-Rosen correlation, more commonly known as entanglement....
einstein himself was describing this effect as "spooky" because of its nature: altering one particle of an entangled pair causes the other to be affected a highly correlated way without any communication between the two, and this in real time,instantly; simple spoken, both particles are basicly the same..they contain the same "information" this effect would enable us to transfer informations instantly over unlimited distances..
now what you have to do is to "inject" information into a photon ,entangle it with another photon used as blank so it gets the same kind of information, "untangle" it , and destroy the original..bang... thats it...
in fact its more complex than that..
a bit to complex for my small mind...