----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Robert Seeberger" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>

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> Dan, have you a link to a better description of what exactly was
> accomplished? TIA!
>
> Actually, I expected someone to shoot down this story.
>
> This proves 2 things:
>
> 1 That people don't understand QM very well. (Talking about public
> knowledge here)
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> 2 People *are* somewhat predictable <G>
>
>
> xponent
> One For Me Yahoo Maru
> rob
> <G>
>
Well, as Neils Bohr said, "Anyone who thinks they understand quantum physics
is wrong."  I'm also told he followed that with "And anyone who does
understand quantum physics is insane."(Or some such statement.)

Here's the article from Physics Web:
 http://www.physicsweb.org/article/news/8/6/10

They generally have the actual science rather than the sensationalized
half-understood version, though some of their articles can be heavy going if
you aren't up on the background.

The basic problem here is that what quantum physicists are calling
teleportation isn't really the same thing that Star Trek calls teleportation.
If we ever reach the point where we could use this particular method on
people, my understanding is that it would be more like making a copy of you
somewhere else than sending you somewhere else. Maybe that's how dittoing
works, come to think of it.

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