Originally posted by Larry717
There is a timely and valuable resource that discusses most of the known theories about teleportation. The Philadelphia Experiment might be described by one of these.
Title:
Teleportation Physics Study
by Eric Davis
August 2004
Air Force Research Lab
Edwards AFB
A friend of mine gave it to me on cd. It is a .pdf file of over 1meg. It is not
for the beginning physics student. But anyone can read between the lines
and still get excited!
Perhaps a search on Google will turn up a site that has the file?
Larry
The Teleportation Physics Study is quite easy to Google.
1.1 Introduction
The concept of teleportation was originally developed during the Golden Age of 20th century science fiction literature by writers in need of a form of instantaneous disembodied transportation technology to support the plots of their stories. Teleportation has appeared in such SciFi literature classics as Algis Budry’s Rogue Moon (Gold Medal Books, 1960), A. E. van Vogt’s World of Null-A (Astounding Science Fiction, August 1945), and George Langelaan’s The Fly (Playboy Magazine, June 1957). The Playboy Magazine short story led to a cottage industry of popular films decrying the horrors of scientific technology that exceeded mankind’s wisdom: The Fly (1958), Return of the Fly (1959), Curse of the Fly (1965), The Fly (a 1986 remake), and The Fly II (1989). The teleportation concept has also appeared in episodes of popular television SciFi anthology series such as The Twilight Zone and The Outer Limits. But the most widely recognized pop-culture awareness of the teleportation concept began with the numerous Star Trek television and theatrical movie series of the past 39 years (beginning in 1964 with the first TV series pilot episode, The Cage), which are now an international entertainment and product franchise that was originally spawned by the late genius television writer-producer Gene Roddenberry.
Comment: You must avoid teleporting with little critters mixing with your source and end points in the teleport. This is highly advisable. A recommended strong bug zapper and fly paper in the laboratory offers greater odds from becoming "The Fly III." Have some large fly paper available to catch yourself on the other side as necessary.
Star Trek took the science fiction outlook to new levels by introducing to an otherwise brain dead public some big words such as "Heisenberg compensators." A new generation of physicists surely is arriving from younsters who looked this up. Of course people advocating a return to being brain dead usually mock others who watch Star Trek, saying "get a life." Hey just join the Air Force Team even as a civilian researcher so you can write such papers as above. Now that's living.
Make sure you have at least Adobe Reader installed to download and read the file of course.
[edit on 25-3-2006 by SkipShipman]
