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Sunday, June 6, 2010

Existence of Alternate Realities


Do alternate realities exist? Can anyone be sure? How does anyone know if this reality is real? It is definitely not possible.

This is one of the interesting questions of all times. In these times of computer age philosophies, is it possible to know what’s real and what isn’t, human senses are so easily fooled.

Where does it end, and more importantly, where does it begin?

Which is the master or highest reality? Is there ever one? Is it possible to tell?

Yeremiah Hardt yeremiah@aol.com

Tuesday, June 1, 2010

Teleportation


Teleportation over 10 miles
the ultimate secure line


We picked our jaws off the floor when we heard about tiny particlesbeing teleported just a foot or two away, but now scientists have topped that by 10 miles. This tech won't be transporting Kirk and his Away Team to the surface of some distant planet anytime soon, but it has seriously practical applications to communications.

Quantum physics says photons can, in some ways, occupy two places at once. When one photon gets entangled with another, whatever happens to one of those particles also happens to another, even if it's TEN
frickin' miles away! Now THAT's a fast connection.

The good news: The researchers were able to send this info with 89% fidelity. The bad? Information transmitted in this way will be hard to encrypt. But they're working on that. There's good reason to work on it; if they can get this right, the communication would be completely secure. Since there's no physical medium for the transmission to travel through — not even spacetime itself — it would be physically impossible to jam or intercept.

Teleportation 101
Yeremiah Hardt yeremiah@aol.com

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