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- sockpuppets, on 10/11/2007, -1/+66Their solution employs both "the coldest thing in the universe and the fastest speed in the universe”.
Hey it looks like they hired my ex wife. - jsd8cc, on 10/11/2007, -0/+37Let's just hope they have a copious supply of flypaper in the lab.
- resplence, on 10/11/2007, -3/+38Direct link: http://www.news.com.au/story/0,23599,22048954-2,00.html
EXTREME PHYSICS WARNING: Their solution employs both "the coldest thing in the universe and the fastest speed in the universe”.
Too bad this pretty much rules out it being used on humans. - aussiecarlos, on 10/11/2007, -3/+26Go Australia!
- rejoined, on 10/11/2007, -1/+22Yes it will, but you'll get blended on the way.
- UCFartstudntJON, on 10/11/2007, -5/+26I, for one, welcome our new Ausie teleporting overlords.
- andrewcsayer, on 10/11/2007, -1/+21But will it teleport?
- Platinumwolf, on 10/11/2007, -1/+19Forget human use, if this could work on a large scale, we could side step the whole space-elevator idea and begin mass transportation of materials into orbit, only using the space shuttles and new space planes for people. If this works on a large scale it could usher in an explosion in space exploration.
- Narwaffle, on 10/11/2007, -1/+17"Mutilated ***** sapien smoke. Don't breathe this"
- GirthAgain, on 10/11/2007, -0/+11Two to beam up.
- secretwhistle, on 10/11/2007, -0/+9When it absolutely, positively has to be there now.
- inactive, on 10/11/2007, -0/+9We have some of the best scientists in the world and yet the government hardly gives any funding to research. What's the use of a having a 10 billion surplus if you don't use it?
- Zenithan, on 10/11/2007, -0/+9Yeah, but really, you're dead for a few moments there. So is it still you in your entirety, or is it transferred without your 'awareness', as some kind of clone that acts just like you did but still isn't you?
- ricree, on 10/11/2007, -0/+8Of course he isn't. When's the last time America had a 10 billion dollar surplus.
- tehpwnrate, on 10/11/2007, -4/+12Even if they do use it on people, I wouldn't want to. If it involves speeding my atoms through a tube, how do I know that while I'm reconstructed, my consciousness didn't end when they broke me up, only to be replaced by a copy that isn't my continued consciousness?
As you can see, I've wasted far too much time thinking about this... - WestDC, on 10/11/2007, -0/+8Yeah, that'd be right. A guy whose username is all in caps, with an American flag avatar, bagging "Austrailians". Please grow up, don't be so ignorant.
- AMJ11, on 10/11/2007, -1/+9Oi Oi Oi
- cryemoxkidcry, on 10/11/2007, -1/+8Who hasn't made a teleportation scheme?
- Narwaffle, on 10/11/2007, -0/+7I don't see the problem.
- Seph7, on 10/11/2007, -0/+7Even If human teleportation existed, this could still go unanswered, due to the fact the reconstructed you would have all your memories, personality e.t.c and would probably have no idea this had happened, while you consciousness is destroyed forever.
Scary huh. - TheHighPrivate, on 10/11/2007, -1/+8Ye cannae change the laws of physics
- TLAKABM, on 10/11/2007, -0/+7A moot point, considering we have no fundamental definition consciousness. How do you know that when you get knocked unconscious or fall asleep that your consciousness is 'continued'? The same physical neurons are there, but via this method (if I understand it correctly), the same physical neurons will still be there too. They'll just be deconstructed and reconstructed. So what, precisely, is the difference?
Consciousness is an illusion that arises from the physical brain. It is not, itself, a physical thing that is 'continued'. - Bega, on 10/11/2007, -1/+7think of it this way; contrary to battlestar galactica, where the consciousness is 'transferred' to a new body (new matter, therefore new brain connections, however identical) and the cylon is identical to the old one, here, (assuming it works properly), it will be all of your original matter, but transported, and reassembled. On that assumption, it will still be you.
Yeah, I've thought about it before too. - ricree, on 10/11/2007, -0/+6Because running a data line into space is more difficult than building a lift?
- jmpeagle, on 10/11/2007, -2/+8the real question is, why does America allow non-Americans to even use the internet?
- curios, on 10/11/2007, -1/+7Here's their ArXiv journal paper http://arxiv.org/abs/0706.0062
Here's the newscientist article with animations http://www.newscientist.com/channel/fundamentals/mg19426085.800-teleportation-but-not-as-we-know-it.html - t4k3n, on 10/11/2007, -0/+5translated ... " she'll be right mate! "
- sockpuppets, on 10/11/2007, -2/+7I'm eagerly awaiting the youtube video of someone tricked into downloading tubgirl- literally.
- Dorepoll, on 10/11/2007, -1/+6Aussie!
- ricree, on 10/11/2007, -0/+5I don' t think that the government would ever allow automobiles to be developed, unless the world was just about to run out of hay. SOOO much revenue would be lost if driving cars replaced horseback riding, that they would destroy any research to prevent it.
- aussiecarlos, on 10/11/2007, -0/+5We also have the ***** ADSL in the western developed world, some of that $10bil could go to good use on that too. But yeah I have to agree, Australian scientists don't nearly get the credit they are due, after all some of the world's best inventions have come out of Australia.
- Shenanigans, on 10/11/2007, -0/+5People shouldn't be concerning this with humans in my opinion. I imagine this technology could be used for sending objects to friends and things of the sort. Sure it could be a step toward human teleportation, but humans being as delicate as we are will take many more years of research and discoveries.
- sathias, on 10/11/2007, -0/+5You might not want it but we definately do... then we can teleport beers straight from the fridge to the couch without getting up :)
- TastyLamp, on 10/11/2007, -0/+4Ex wife.
- bubba9999, on 10/11/2007, -0/+4You wouldn't be on digg.
- NerdyNinja, on 10/11/2007, -0/+4What if the power were to go out in the middle of you being on your way to Tahiti? Also, how could this EVER work on humans? Wouldn't subjecting living cells to that kind of cold just kill everything? This isn't exactly a carbonite teleporter, guys.
- KlayBorg, on 10/11/2007, -0/+4Vote labour then, they are going to build a new broadband network.
- Inverno, on 10/11/2007, -1/+4About eight years ago?
- fwedwic, on 10/11/2007, -0/+3excellent, i think the same ;)
- TjLAXattack, on 10/11/2007, -0/+3Forget humans, this would work great to 'port me some Dippin Dots as fast as possible.
- inactive, on 10/11/2007, -1/+4Yeah, apart from the bit where they send them all along fiber optic cables into space. Whoops.
- theshiz892, on 10/11/2007, -1/+4heyooooooooooooooh, ah ha ha ha ha
- NightBlade40, on 10/11/2007, -0/+3How do you know that the machine doesn't produce more carbon dioxide than it sends into geosynchronous orbit, eh?
- ozroy, on 10/11/2007, -0/+3Physicist are you? They are not transporting the original atom. They are making an exact copy of it ie, they teleport it.
- Nudar, on 10/11/2007, -0/+3Make it so, number one.
- Bega, on 10/11/2007, -0/+3to answer that, you have to define what consciousness is. Do you take the basic biological view, where it is just the neural connections in the brain, or do you take the gestalt view where the whole is greater than the sum of it's parts? Like seph7 said, this is something that can be debated endlessly without finding an answer; it's delving more into philosophical terms than scientific.
edit: as soon as I posted this, I read TLAKABM's post. amused. - Dundasbro, on 10/11/2007, -1/+4AUSSIE!
- fatpads, on 10/11/2007, -1/+4Oi
- asdfrewq, on 10/11/2007, -0/+2Because $10 billion, in an election year, looks far better as a surplus then it does being spent on things the majority of the population doesn't even understand and will probably never use in their lifetime. On the other hand, $10billion could be well spent on health care, education, transport or one of the many other services we use daily (sorry, ADSL, as important as it is for business, it's not crucial nor economically viable to have ultra high speed broadband to each and every household. You'll just have to wait a little bit longer for that torrent to finish ;) )
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