Thus it was written in the epistle of John Clogg,
> It's hard to tell from the cursory descriptions contained in these articles,
> but it seems the claims made are seriously overstated.  It seems that the
> information encoded in a beam of laser light was somehow extracted and
> recreated at another location.  This is hardly comparable to transporting
> matter.  In fact, the summary at the link that Gibson provided contained the
> following ridiculous misstatement: "The team have successfully disassembled
> a laser and recreated a replica a metre away, confirming the theory that it
> is possible to teleport solid objects."  They did not disassemble a laser,
> they extracted information from the light emitted by the laser.  They did
> not "prove" that teleportation of solid objects is possible.

Understood.  I would like to know more about what they did.  The claim in the
first article was that a laser beam was "disassembled" with the information it
contained and "reassembled" a meter away *simultaneously*.  If so, it is fairly
significant for transporting information securely (it doesn't actually travel
from point a to point b and thus cannot be intercepted) and for speed of
transmission (this puts information travelling faster than the speed of light,
does it not?)

Last I heard, even Quantum Physics doesn't allow for information travelling
faster than light.

Ted
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