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No April Fool That Either [Teleportation]

Ianf [PersonRank 10]

Thursday, April 3, 2008
16 years ago2,489 views

The Guardian: "Teleportation, time travel and aliens – a vision of tomorrow today. Even the most outlandish science fiction could become fact, says professor."

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[...] Scientists currently have the best chance in history of making contact with aliens. [...] Professor Michio Kaku, of City University in New York, has ruled out time travel for at least a few millennia, but believes invisibility cloaks and telepathy could be possible this century.

"So many times predictions are made that certain things are impossible only to find them becoming possible a decade or a few decades later," he said. In his new book, The Physics of the Impossible, published in the UK today, Kaku rates seemingly impossible phenomena according to how likely they are to happen [ e.g.] Teleportation, [.... which is] actually already being done by physicists. It relies on a deeply strange phenomenon called quantum entanglement, which physicists have already used to "teleport" a photon 89 miles between La Palma and Tenerife in the Canary Island group. But Kaku concedes that Captain Kirk will have to wait a couple of centuries. "You are not actually moving the photons from one place to another because you are destroying the original. What materialises at the other end is your twin which has all the information of the previous object." [...]

http://www.guardian.co.uk/science/2008/apr/02/sciencenews.physicalsciences/print

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