Beam Me Up Scotty!

Apparently the US Airforce is working on teleporation.

A brief synopsis of the article:

The author broke down the various possibilities in this way:

* Teleportation – SciFi: the disembodied transport of persons or inanimate objects across space by advanced (futuristic) technological means (adapted from Vaidman, 2001). We will call this sf- Teleportation, which will not be considered further in this study.
* Teleportation – psychic: the conveyance of persons or inanimate objects by psychic means. We will call this p-Teleportation.
* Teleportation – engineering the vacuum or spacetime metric: the conveyance of persons or inanimate objects across space by altering the properties of the spacetime vacuum, or by altering the spacetime metric (geometry). We will call this vm-Teleportation.
* Teleportation – quantum entanglement: the disembodied transport of the quantum state of a system and its correlations across space to another system, where system refers to any single or collective particles of matter or energy such as baryons (protons, neutrons, etc.), leptons (electrons, etc.), photons, atoms, ions, etc. We will call this q-Teleportation.
* Teleportation – exotic: the conveyance of persons or inanimate objects by transport through extra space dimensions or parallel universes. We will call this e-Teleportation.

“The first solution can be found from the class of traversable wormholes giving rise to what I call a true “stargate.” A stargate is essentially a wormhole with a flat-face shape for the throat as opposed to the spherical-shaped throat of the Morris and Thorne traversable wormhole, which was derived from a spherically symmetric Lorentzian spacetime metric that prescribes the wormhole geometry.”

“P-Teleportation, if verified, would represent a phenomenon that could offer potential high-payoff military, intelligence and commercial applications. This phenomenon could generate a dramatic revolution in technology, which would result from a dramatic paradigm shift in science. Anomalies are the key to all paradigm shifts!”

Interesting, even if we won’t be sending ourselves, or anything else, through space via teleportation anytime soon.

If you’ve ever seen the Simpson’s Treehouse of Horror VIII, you know the wonderful things one could do with a teleporter…they include….
1. Getting a beer in the kitchen from the living room.
2. Going to the bathroom from the living room without having to go upstairs.
3. Genetically combining yourself with a fly.

Either way, the fact that the Air Force is investigating the potential for teleportation is just…well….it WrOcKs!

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