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Written by Joshua Jacques
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Sunday, 15 October 2006 |
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of macroscopic matter that is! A team of physicists in Denmark successfully transmitted a blob of trillions of atoms a distance of half a meter through light. This is a breakthrough in teleportation because previous experiments could only transfer a single atom a fraction of a millimeter. The interesting find to me was how the physicists described its possible future use. Conventional computer data transfer follows "paths," which can become convoluted and create bottlenecks. The use of teleportation in computers could allow literally instantaneous transfers among important computer components. How about Internet bandwidth? Our current system of information transfer is plenty sufficient for now, but what if everyone connected to the Internet could transfer their entire hard drive contents to a backup server in Germany in a split second? Not a far-fetched estimate of what teleportation is capable of for technology. The silly thing is, by the time teleportation is cheaply implemented for all to use, technology will have adapted naturally in the direction of faster, more efficient architecture. Probably reaching near teleportation speeds...  Travel agent: "Welcome to TeleTravel, your one-way, no security-check-or-airplane-food traveling device! Where would you like to beam to today?"
Tourist: "How much for instant transfer to New Zealand?"
Original article here.
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