Last month Dr Michio Kaku, Professor of Theoretical Physics at
Photons have already been teleported said Kaku. In
The next big thing is to teleport an atom. Kaku reckoned it might be possible to teleport a virus within a decade.
Teleporting is most is likely to be achieved through "quantum entanglement," said Kaku,, a property that allows connections to be formed, and information transmitted, between particles many miles apart.
Applying the process to larger objects like people is just a scientific "engineering problem", that is likely to be solved in time, Prof Kaku writes in his new book Physics of the Impossible.
Kaku assesses teleportation, telepathy, forcefields and invisibility as 'Class 1' impossibilities - achievable within a century at most, a few decades quite possibly.
He said researchers at
Kaku envisages 'metamaterials' which will bend light waves.
Kaku's Class II impossibilities are time travel, parallel universes and travelling faster than the speed of light. These may take centuries or even millennia to realise.
Class III impossibilities are perpetual motion machines and telling the future (precognition).
Class III impossibilities are really impossible, says Kaku, because the fundamental laws of physics (as currently understood) say they're impossible.
That's good news for the world's thousands of analysts, futurologists and fortune tellers. For so long as precognition remains impossible, they have a job.
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Posted by mmfiore | June 22, 2009 6:30 PM
Posted on June 22, 2009 18:30
I'm surprised that Kaku doesn't know that the quantum state of ytterbium ions has already been teleported.
Readers should not confuse this sort of teleportation with the Star Trek variety!
Posted by David Callaghan | June 23, 2009 11:46 AM
Posted on June 23, 2009 11:46
Time travel might not be so far off, certainly once attained.
Many moons ago I needed to close the loop on a class D Amplifier but all the maths indicated a negative time constant was required.
Which got me thinking, R x C = positive time constant so if R is negative then R x C is a negative time constant. Now tunnel diodes exhibit a negative resistance. Also generators exhibit negative resistance (based upon V/I = R)
btw I thought about this next week and sent myself a note.
Posted by Bob Moreton | June 23, 2009 2:05 PM
Posted on June 23, 2009 14:05
Information has been teleported between two seperate atoms early this year (2009): Quantum Experiments
Posted by targettree | July 2, 2009 4:32 PM
Posted on July 2, 2009 16:32
Does this mean that next February's highly successful webinar on time travel will be repeated last month?
Posted by RoryS | November 3, 2009 11:27 AM
Posted on November 3, 2009 11:27
Doesn't the type II impossibility 'time travel' actually make the Type III impossibility 'precognition' redundant?
Posted by Sceptic | November 3, 2009 12:23 PM
Posted on November 3, 2009 12:23
That's an extremely good point, Sceptic, of course you're right. Maybe a promotion is in order for precognition from Type III to Type II
Posted by Anonymous | November 3, 2009 12:37 PM
Posted on November 3, 2009 12:37