From: Emlyn O'regan (oregan.emlyn@healthsolve.com.au)
Date: Mon Jun 17 2002 - 18:53:01 MDT
Try this article from the Australian, it's even better. I don't think the
science is quite correct...
http://www.theaustralian.news.com.au/common/story_page/0,5744,4522247%255E27
02,00.html
Emlyn
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Damien Broderick [mailto:d.broderick@english.unimelb.edu.au]
> Sent: Tuesday, 18 June 2002 12:51 AM
> To: extropians@extropy.com
> Subject: quantum entanglement/teleportation hysteria in Oz
>
>
> All the news programs tonight in Australia were replete with
> clips from
> *Star Trek* and fat actors muttering `Beam me up', and grave reporters
> saying `no longer *mere science fiction*', and other
> stupidity. Physicists
> at the Australian National University, led by Dr Ping Koy Lam, have
> destroyed a coded laser pulse and reconstructed it via
> entanglement a meter
> away. I don't know why this is supposed to be more exciting
> that equivalent
> work done some years ago by IBM and elsewhere, except maybe that it's
> happened in (Ta! Ra! Oh frabjous bloody day!) in little Oz.
>
> Here's a newspaper account:
>
> http://www.theage.com.au/articles/2002/06/17/1023864402551.html
>
> Dr Lam sensibly notes: "At the moment we don't know how to teleport a
> single atom."
>
> Damien Broderick
>
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