About Time to Sell the Car

Vicsun · Post by **Vicsun** » Wed Jun 19, 2002 7:40 am

Australian sientists were able to teleport a laser beam. What do you think about it? It certanly has a lot of prospects, even though human transportation isn't an option yet.

fable · Post by **fable** » Wed Jun 19, 2002 7:43 am

I got no sense of any of the science behind it. It was simply a Lifestyle piece, in all the superficiality you might expect from that genre.

Weasel · Post by **Weasel** » Wed Jun 19, 2002 7:46 am

1. A question of what do you do with the original.

Kill it (If it's alive) If not you will have a copy with no information.

Chanak · Post by **Chanak** » Wed Jun 19, 2002 6:43 pm

@Vicsun: nice avatar, btw. I love wolves.

The only thing that struck me about the article - which I didn't expect to be that technical in the first place (it's CNN, what do you expect? It's the fast-food news service

) - is how it linked the achievement to the further development of quantum computers. Now that's interesting. Some of the basic technology behind the concept of quantum computers is already in use - new hard drive technology, which greatly expands storage - and to see another step in that direction is pretty cool, to me. You can surf Google to find info on quantum computers. From what I understand, a quantum computer, in theory, would be able to handle the astronomical computations necessary to construct material from the atomic level on up.

One thing I've noticed from human history - if the mind can conceive it, it can be achieved.

C Elegans · Post by **C Elegans** » Wed Jun 19, 2002 7:08 pm

Here is BBC's report of the same thing, the article is identical since it is from Reuter's, but BBC has some nice links and a Q&A you can check.

http://news.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/sci/te ... 049048.stm

It is strange that there is no mention of where the results are (or are going to be) published. I'll try to keep an eye for this appearing in the big scientific journals.

Tamerlane · Post by **Tamerlane** » Wed Jun 19, 2002 7:23 pm

I heard on one of the Australian press shows down here, that the results will be made known at a convention in Moscow either next week or next month.

I knew I should of paid more attention

C Elegans · Post by **C Elegans** » Wed Jun 19, 2002 7:39 pm

@Tamerlane: I see, then it will probably appear in the scientific press fairly soon after that.

It is strange that they choose to go to the "normal" press before the publish in the scientific press or present at an international meeting.

Normally you do it the other way around, since the most "prestigious" scientific journals require your results not to have been published in normal press or in other journals, in order to accept your papers...

Maybe this "reversed" order is more common in physcis...a pity Curdis is not here anymore, our in-house physicist who moved out in the wilderness.

Tamerlane · Post by **Tamerlane** » Wed Jun 19, 2002 7:45 pm

Oh I blame the government for that one. They released the usual tirade of supporting science research and saying how Australia was now a leading country in this field of research.

Did you know we even have a Minister of Science, that was news to me

As for Curdis, he should be intrigued by it all

Weasel · Post by **Weasel** » Wed Jun 19, 2002 8:02 pm

Originally posted by Tamerlane
Oh I blame the government for that one. They released the usual tirade of supporting science research and saying how Australia was now a leading country in this field of research.

Is the elections on the horizon?

I asked because I saw someone claim to have invented the internet for votes before.

Tamerlane · Post by **Tamerlane** » Wed Jun 19, 2002 8:05 pm

Originally posted by Weasel
Is the elections on the horizon?

I asked because I saw someone claim to have invented the internet for votes before.

Possibly a state one, however our Prime Minister has been copping a lot of critisicm for the manner in which he went in his recent US visit. Its a nice way to make the government look in control again.

Vicsun · Post by **Vicsun** » Thu Jun 20, 2002 11:06 am

tnx @ Chanak. That was my avatar ever since that option was available. I went to avatars.com and picked the first avatar I liked

@everyone else
I think that even though it won't have the star-treck application I still think it would be a great improvement. Practicly anything could be made wireless at any range...

Silur · Post by **Silur** » Thu Jun 20, 2002 12:06 pm

Hmmm, I smell a rat... or should I say "Cold Fusion"? That was the last time a major scientific breaktrough got published in the normal media before being submitted (or should I say subjected) to peer reviewed journals. Now, that didn't turn out too well...

Robnark · Post by **Robnark** » Thu Jun 20, 2002 12:52 pm

it does seem a bit strange that this has been released to the media first, but it does semm to have some serious practical implications, and i want a quantum computer

Silur · Post by **Silur** » Thu Jun 20, 2002 1:23 pm

Originally posted by Robnark
it does seem a bit strange that this has been released to the media first, but it does semm to have some serious practical implications, and i want a quantum computer

Well, I wanted a fusiondriven car and didn't get one.

Robnark · Post by **Robnark** » Thu Jun 20, 2002 1:28 pm

maybe they sent it to the wrong address? i never asked for my flying fusion car, it just turned up one day without explanation...

Silur · Post by **Silur** » Thu Jun 20, 2002 1:37 pm

Originally posted by Robnark
maybe they sent it to the wrong address? i never asked for my flying fusion car, it just turned up one day without explanation...

LOL

. Most probably. But are you sure it runs on _cold_ fusion? I've heard it's starting to become acceptable science again, albeit slowly. It only took 15 years or so.