[Coco] Re: OT: Beam my up Scotty - The USAF's study in teleportation.

[Robert Gault]

John R. Hogerhuis wrote:
> On Tue, 2004-11-02 at 05:50, Robert Gault wrote:
> 
>>Jim Cox wrote:
>>
>>
>>>I know there have been too many OT posts lately, but I thought some of 
>>>you out there might find this interesting. Hopefully they keep the flies 
>>>out of the lab!
>>>
>>>http://www.fas.org/sgp/eprint/teleport.pdf
>>>
>>
>>This looks like a hoax or should be one if a real paper; note the many 
>>parapsychology references. However there is real work being done in this 
>>area in quantum physics. The reference in the "paper" to Scientific 
>>American is probably correct as there was an article in Sci.Am. which is 
>>a good read.
>>
>>
> 
> 
> It doesn't look like a hoax to me, since they don't claim that it works.
> They're saying something like "if you solved this problem which we don't
> know how to do, and that problem which we don't know how to do, and had
> mass the size of Jupiter to work with, you could construct a stable
> wormhole."
> 
> The problem is in the givens/assumptions. So it is basically just a way
> of saying if you want to have instantaneous travel between two points in
> space, and you could solve the following few problems, this is how you
> would manipulate space do it.
> 
> It seems the point of the paper is, to come up with a short list of
> important areas for research given you want to pursue contruction of a
> stable wormhole.
> 
> -- John.
> 
> 
Then you would not invoke parapsychology.