Replicator Technology

Originally posted by Asclepius
the machine could pay for itself. you could get one then replicate a gold bar billions of times....

Originally posted by racos
If one atom can be transported, why cant two ? or Three ?

Originally posted by racos
again with this technology, wouldnt money become something of the past ? Because at the end of the day, money is mearly used inorder to obtain goods. What need would there be for money if everyone could have what they want ? The only things that would have to be traded would be technologies, and Elements.

Originally posted by racos

If this technology was ever to be built then it could mean the end of many industries and could lead to many world problems being fixed for example the food crisis....However it could be used for creating weapons.

No it is impossible to replicate weapons Star Feet Dirctive 001.244x specfically prohibts replicating weapons.

Originally posted by sardion2000
Well with the Teleportation being used nowadays only the state of the Photon or Atom is transported(not the actually Atom) resulting with the destruction of the original.

Originally posted by shots


Just what kind of teleportation are you talking about?

Keep in mind you just stated the state of the photon/atom is transported not the actual atom


[edit on 11/27/2004 by shots]

[edit on 11/27/2004 by shots]

Source en.wikipedia.org...
Indistinguishability

Let's say that Alice has a rubidium atom (the element physicists in this field like to use for their experiments), which is in its ground state, and Bob has also has such an atom, as well in its ground state. It is important to see, that these two atoms are indistinguishable, that means, that there really is no difference between them.

If Alice and Bob had, say, two glass balls, which exactly look alike, and they exchanged them, then something would change. If you had a powerful microscope, you could certainly find some difference between the two balls. For atoms of the same kind and in the same quantum state, however, there really is no difference at all. The physical situation with Alice having the first atom and Bob the second is exactly the same as vice versa.1 In a certain sense, it is even wrong to say that the two atoms have any individuality or identity. It would be more appropriate to say that the two locations in space both have the property that the fundamental quantum fields have those values which define the ground state of the rubidium atom.

Quantum teleportation: the result

Now, imagine Alice's atom being in some complicated (excited) quantum state. Assume that we do not know this quantum state -- and of course, we cannot find out by inspection (measurement). But what we can do is to teleport the quantum state to Bob's rubidium atom. After this operation, Bob's atom is exactly in the state that Alice's atom was before.

Now note that Bob's atom afterwards is indistinguishable from the Alice's atom before. In a way, the two are the same -- because it does not make sense to claim that two atoms are different only because they are at different locations. If Alice had gone to Bob and given him the atom we would have exactly the same physical situation.

But Alice and Bob were not required to meet. They only needed to share entanglement.

Originally posted by Mephorium
I think the best way to replicate something is to use nanobots to construct it; though nanotechnology is beyond me. Just a thought....