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1
That shit is dope
there ain't no great white man hope :
the Void, the Mojo, the Space :
Rap Race No : Yes to RAT Race!!!
2
News reporting on quantum mechanics makes me wish I've never read up on it. Because the reporting is always nonsense.
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If we ever do get to see a bare Antarctic continent, we're going to be in a big, wet world of hurt.
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I really doubt we'll ever get Star Trek transporters. But this could be very useful to carry information.
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@4 DIRAC (named after a real person) theories are that information could be turned into objects. Which we can now print in 3D and even do certain tissues, but ... not quite what you're thinking of yet.
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@4: Not really, at least not from what little can be gleaned after passing through the press release/crummy science journalism filters. To the best of my knowledge, every one of these 'quantum teleportation breakthroughs' boils down to entangling two particles and moving them away from each other. Measure one of them, and then the other before light could travel the intervening distance, and have your PR guy type up a release about teleportation. But if you can't control what state the entangled particles end up in, you can't use it to communicate.

Try this thought experiment. You flip a coin. Without looking at the coin, you and a friend both take polaroid pictures of the coin, and put them in separate envelopes before they develop. You hop on a plane to Austranlia, your friend hops on a plane to Europe. You open your envelopes at the same time and lo and behold, they match! Somehow, your polaroid and your friend's polaroid must have communicated faster than light! Spooky action at a distance! Now we just need a way to force the 'transmitting' polaroid to be heads when we want heads, and tails when we want tails, but that's probably a pretty simple issue to work out. I'm sure it's only five or ten years away.

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