Teleportation — Fact and Fiction 348
jcatcw writes "Earlier this week actor Hayden Christensen, of Star Wars fame, and director Doug Liman discussed teleportation with MIT professors to compare the reality to the special effects version in the upcoming movie, Jumper. Edward Farhi, director of the Center for Theoretical Physics at MIT, said, 'It's a little less exotic than what you see in the movie. Teleportation has been done, moving a single proton over two miles. [But] teleporting a person? That is pretty far down the line. The quantum state of a living creature is pretty formidable. That is just not in the foreseeable future.'"
Re:Shock (Score:5, Funny)
Heisenberg Compensators! Duh! (Score:4, Funny)
You have got to be kidding me (Score:5, Funny)
Fixed that for you. (Score:2, Funny)
Re:You have got to be kidding me (Score:5, Funny)
The old poem (Score:5, Funny)
with Ron & Sid & Meg
Ron stole Megan's heart away
and I got Sydney's leg."
- Restaurant at the End of the Universe
Actually, it's not that hard (Score:2, Funny)
Re:Shouldn't that be... (Score:3, Funny)
MY power= Turn anything into CHEESE! (Score:3, Funny)
But seriously pre-cog would be cool at first, but might take all the joy out of life - no surprises anymore. Right now my desired powers would be either super-speed like the Flash, or jumping ability like the Hulk. But that could be 'cause I'm living in Los Angeles, where the average traffic speed is 11 MPH (16 KPH).
Re:wouldn't in animate objects be easier then? (Score:1, Funny)
Very funny, Scotty! (Score:3, Funny)
Re:Too small (Score:3, Funny)
Re:Death and Rebirth... Thinking wrong use here... (Score:1, Funny)