From: CALYK@aol.com
Date: Wed Oct 08 1997 - 04:24:07 MDT
In a message dated 97-10-08 04:49:34 EDT, you write:
<< > I also read that IBM are using
> teleportation as a means for faster than light communcation. The really
> interesting thing is, this was all in a business computing magazine, so
all
> this has now officially gone mainstream.
NOT accurate. Some idiot at IBM started this rumor years ago with an ad in
Scientific American. I suppose that now that we know how to do
sort-of-teleportation in the sense of transmitting all information about a
particle without transmitting the particle itself - formerly thought to be
impossible - the rumor has resurfaced. I am NOT aware of ANY reports that
this effect operates instantaneously, although I suppose that's
theoretically
possible (uses quantum-measurement stuff, and nobody knows when or how fast
that operates).
-- >>
So it IS accurate.
danny
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