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Teleportation has been the holy grail of transport for decades, ever since Mr Scott first beamed up Captain Kirk and his crew in the 1966 opening episode of Star Trek. Now the technology may have been cracked in real life … sort of.
Scientists from the Hasso Plattner Institute in Potsdam have invented a real-life teleporter system that can scan in an object and “beam it” to another location.
Not quite the dematerialisation and reconstruction of science fiction, the system relies on destructive scanning and 3D printing.
originally posted by: olaru12
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Teleportation has been the holy grail of transport for decades, ever since Mr Scott first beamed up Captain Kirk and his crew in the 1966 opening episode of Star Trek. Now the technology may have been cracked in real life … sort of.
Scientists from the Hasso Plattner Institute in Potsdam have invented a real-life teleporter system that can scan in an object and “beam it” to another location.
Not quite the dematerialisation and reconstruction of science fiction, the system relies on destructive scanning and 3D printing.
That's not real teleportation! That's creating an entirely new object that just looks like the one scanned. Nothing is beamed!
Still technology marches on and the applications for this devise is astonishing.
originally posted by: lonesomerimbaud
a reply to: olaru12
Well we may be on our way to developing replicators as advertised by the good ship Enterprise, but not quite the energise function...yet.
Hopefully we'll soon be able to say to the computer,
"Earl Grey, Hot" and indeed it will be so.
originally posted by: deadeyedick
a reply to: FormOfTheLord
It is not dumb if you factor in the dualism of particles.