Teleportation (how it might work)

[ulthar]

ad wrote:

>
> This makes me recall an old Black-and-white movie about some
> guy who goes back to kill Hitler - all I remember is him
> standing in a window frame with a rifle in one hand with his
> sights on Hitler. Then a knock occurs on the door - and that's
> all I can remember - don't even remember the film's title.
>

I think this is a 'Twilight Zone' episode, at least it sounds similar.

[Dave Munger]

I've been meaning to point something out to people all over online for awhile now, and I have elected to so honor this board. The term "flash mob" seems to be derived from "flash crowd", which was coined by Larry Niven in a series of short stories about teleportation including "The Last Days Of The Permanent Floating Riot Club". Glad I got that off my chest.

http://davemunger.blogspot.com

[Brother Ragnarok]

All I know is, if they ever do figure it out, I sure as hell ain't getting into one.

Brother R

[JohnL]

I've read accounts of the experiments into teleportation also. If I recall correctly, one article said that they were working on getting it to teleport a single atom and that if they could accomplish that, the only obstacle would be the computer power required to teleport something.

As for the methods involved, the idea of creating a copy and destroying the original has been used several times. It was at the heart of the book Waystation by Clifford Simak and it was used in an episode of the new Outer Limits. I've always thought that if it worked this way, *YOU* wouldn't actually go anywhere, it would create a copy of you somewhere else and you'd die.

>This makes me recall an old Black-and-white movie about some guy who goes
>back to kill Hitler

I agree with ulthar, I think this is one of the hour-long Twilight Zone episodes, No Time Like the Past

Finally, I also liked the story The Jaunt. The part that gets me is trying to imagine what it would be like to be awake through such a trip where you would experience millions of years worth of limbo. The scary part is that seems like something I'd do.

[FearlessFreep]

If I recall correctly, one article said that they were working on getting it to teleport a single atom and that if they could accomplish that, the only obstacle would be the computer power required to teleport something.

I recall the articles about IBM working on this and basically the probelm was that the time  to break down and digitize and transmit the information in even something as simple as an apple would take years (like in the thousabds or millions range).   So while the technology is theoretically possible, it won't be pragmatically doable for quite some time

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