Star Trek coming to your everyday life VERY soon!
source: http://mattovermatter.com/2010/10/07/star-trek-coming-to-your-everyday-life-very-soon/
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SCIENTISTS TELEPORT INFO 10 MILES
A new report by Chinese scientists shows that it is possible to transmit information over long distances using quantum entanglement. The research, published in the current issue of the journal Nature Photonics, could lead to faster and smaller quantum-based computers and unbreakable, encrypted communication across the world.
The team reported they were able to “teleport” information 16 kilometers, or 9.9 miles.
“This is the longest reported distance over which photonic teleportation has been achieved to date, more than 20 times longer than the previous implementation,” said Cheng-Zhi Peng, one of the co-authors of the study and a scientist at University of Science and Technology of China and Tsinghua University in Beijing.
In science fiction, teleportation usually describes the transfer of matter from one point to another, more or less instantaneously. In real physics, it’s considered part of the “spookier” aspects of quantum mechanics (as Einstein famously derided the nascent field), that describes the behavior of the atoms and their constituent particles.
According to the theory, bits of light and matter can become entangled with one another and anything that happens to one particle will happen to the other, regardless of the distance or intervening matter. What the Chinese scientists managed to do was transmit change-of-state information from photon to photon over a distance of 16 kilometers.
IS STAR TREK’S TRACTOR BEAM POSSIBLE?
Building a tractor beam in the lab may sound a little far-fetched, but physicists at the Australian National University have announced that they’ve built a device capable of transporting small glass particles — one hundred times the size of a bacterium — one and a half meters across a laboratory desk without touching them (pictured top). This is a huge advance considering existing “optical tweezers” can only push particles the size of a bacterium few millimeters in liquid.
How is this achieved?
In the Star Trek universe, spaceships use a “graviton beam emitter” to create a graviton interference pattern that can be manipulated to grab onto other sub-warp-speed space objects (I’ll get onto warp speed later). Alas, gravitons are hypothetical quantum particles in ouruniverse, and the Australian researchers certainly can’t use them in their lab experiment.
Instead, they’ve built a “hollow laser” that can trap small objects inside and manipulate them.
This 21st technology creates a very thin tube of laser light with a dark core. When the glass particles are placed inside the cool core, they are kept there by the laser-heated air. Should the particles drift in any direction, they are pushed back to the center by the hot cushioning air molecules.
Energy from Solar Wind
Never mind using the solar wind to power spacecraft — that’s old hat. Scientists at Washington State University want to use solar wind to power the entire world. A humongous solar sail could be used to harvest the power of solar winds, generating 1 billion billion gigawatts of electricity. The problem is figuring out how to get the power back to Earth.
A solar wind power satellite, or a Dyson-Harrop satellite, after the scientists who invented it, would provide 100 billion times as much power as the Earth currently uses, as Discovery News points out. Researchers from Washington State University published a paper describing the system in the International Journal of Astrobiology.
It involves a .4-inch-wide copper wire pointed at the sun, and attached to a solar sail. The wire — which can range in length from 980 feet to more than half a mile — would generate a magnetic field that would capture electrons from the solar wind. The particles would be funneled into a spherical receiver, which produces a current.
Disc-Shaped Balloon could transport whole buildings to remote areas
Australian aeronautical firm Skylifter has come up with a better way to transport heavy equipment to remote areas that are beyond the reach of railways, roads and runways – a flying saucer.
This 150 meter-wide disc shaped balloon would be capable of carrying 150 tons, an increase of 700 percent from the maximum 20 tons able to be lifted by existing heavy transport helicopters. Its design provides for more stability – with its flatter profile, it acts less like a sail, making it less susceptible to winds during flights of up to 1240 miles. The disc also behaves as a parachute during descent, ensuring a gentle landing, while the low-hanging control pod keeps it from being too top-heavy.
http://mattovermatter.com/2010/10/07/star-trek-coming-to-your-everyday-life-very...
A new report by Chinese scientists shows that it is possible to transmit information over long distances using quantum entanglement. The research, published in the current issue of the journal Nature Photonics, could lead to faster and smaller quantum-based computers and unbreakable, encrypted communication across the world.
The team reported they were able to “teleport” information 16 kilometers, or 9.9 miles.
“This is the longest reported distance over which photonic teleportation has been achieved to date, more than 20 times longer than the previous implementation,” said Cheng-Zhi Peng, one of the co-authors of the study and a scientist at University of Science and Technology of China and Tsinghua University in Beijing.
In science fiction, teleportation usually describes the transfer of matter from one point to another, more or less instantaneously. In real physics, it’s considered part of the “spookier” aspects of quantum mechanics (as Einstein famously derided the nascent field), that describes the behavior of the atoms and their constituent particles.
According to the theory, bits of light and matter can become entangled with one another and anything that happens to one particle will happen to the other, regardless of the distance or intervening matter. What the Chinese scientists managed to do was transmit change-of-state information from photon to photon over a distance of 16 kilometers.
IS STAR TREK’S TRACTOR BEAM POSSIBLE?
Building a tractor beam in the lab may sound a little far-fetched, but physicists at the Australian National University have announced that they’ve built a device capable of transporting small glass particles — one hundred times the size of a bacterium — one and a half meters across a laboratory desk without touching them (pictured top). This is a huge advance considering existing “optical tweezers” can only push particles the size of a bacterium few millimeters in liquid.
How is this achieved?
In the Star Trek universe, spaceships use a “graviton beam emitter” to create a graviton interference pattern that can be manipulated to grab onto other sub-warp-speed space objects (I’ll get onto warp speed later). Alas, gravitons are hypothetical quantum particles in ouruniverse, and the Australian researchers certainly can’t use them in their lab experiment.
Instead, they’ve built a “hollow laser” that can trap small objects inside and manipulate them.
This 21st technology creates a very thin tube of laser light with a dark core. When the glass particles are placed inside the cool core, they are kept there by the laser-heated air. Should the particles drift in any direction, they are pushed back to the center by the hot cushioning air molecules.
Energy from Solar Wind
Never mind using the solar wind to power spacecraft — that’s old hat. Scientists at Washington State University want to use solar wind to power the entire world. A humongous solar sail could be used to harvest the power of solar winds, generating 1 billion billion gigawatts of electricity. The problem is figuring out how to get the power back to Earth.
A solar wind power satellite, or a Dyson-Harrop satellite, after the scientists who invented it, would provide 100 billion times as much power as the Earth currently uses, as Discovery News points out. Researchers from Washington State University published a paper describing the system in the International Journal of Astrobiology.
It involves a .4-inch-wide copper wire pointed at the sun, and attached to a solar sail. The wire — which can range in length from 980 feet to more than half a mile — would generate a magnetic field that would capture electrons from the solar wind. The particles would be funneled into a spherical receiver, which produces a current.
Disc-Shaped Balloon could transport whole buildings to remote areas
Australian aeronautical firm Skylifter has come up with a better way to transport heavy equipment to remote areas that are beyond the reach of railways, roads and runways – a flying saucer.
This 150 meter-wide disc shaped balloon would be capable of carrying 150 tons, an increase of 700 percent from the maximum 20 tons able to be lifted by existing heavy transport helicopters. Its design provides for more stability – with its flatter profile, it acts less like a sail, making it less susceptible to winds during flights of up to 1240 miles. The disc also behaves as a parachute during descent, ensuring a gentle landing, while the low-hanging control pod keeps it from being too top-heavy.
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