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Why undead humans can and will not walk through walls:

http://www.kabbalahforwomen.com/what_th ... index.html
Kabbalist Rav Laitman was all over it in this Special Effects Bleep Zohar Lesson (video clip) where he is talking about walking through walls and how one thing can be in two places at the same time - truly one of the most entertaining lessons ever!

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pauli_exclusion_principle
The Pauli exclusion principle is one of the most important principles in physics, mainly because the three types of particles from which ordinary matter is made?electrons, protons, and neutrons?are all subject to it; consequently, all material particles exhibit space-occupying behavior. The Pauli exclusion principle underpins many of the characteristic properties of matter from the large-scale stability of matter to the existence of the periodic table of the elements.


http://www.abc.net.au/science/features/bleep/
Where the Bleep they're Wrong about Quantum Physics & Reality
The quantum world is intriguing, but unless you're a particle physicist it's got very little to do with the world's reality.

http://www.popsci.com/node/3392
One of the few legitimate academics in the film, David Albert, a philosopher of physics at Columbia University, is outraged at the final product. He says that he spent four hours patiently explaining to the filmmakers why quantum mechanics has nothing to do with consciousness or spirituality, only to see his statements edited and cut to the point where it appears as though he and the spirit warrior are speaking with one voice. ?I was taken,? Albert admits

as for the bleep movie, they ruined their credibility in a number of ways using their "artistic license". this post i'm making has nothing to do with that movie. my comments and information are along the line of addressing the pauli exclusion principle. yes, i would agree that the pauli exclusion principle is one of the most important in physics. however, there are advances in physics that are clearly showing that in certain conditions, matter is not following the principle, but is violating it, to the intrigue and surprise of scientists. never say never in science =-)


Theories of high-temperature superconductivity violate Pauli principle
March 24th, 2005

Scientists seeking to explain high-temperature superconductivity have been violating the Pauli exclusion principle, a team of researchers from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign and Rutgers University report. Any theory that does not embrace the Pauli principle has a lot of explaining to do, they say.
The basic organizing precept behind the periodic table is the Pauli principle, which says that electrons with the same spin cannot occupy the same energy state. The Pauli principle leads to the shell structure of atoms, and is inviolate for electronic systems. Many researchers, however, have been breaking this important rule when proposing theories to explain the mechanism behind high-temperature superconductivity.


"Within a class of materials known as doped Mott insulators, such as the high-temperature copper-oxide superconductors, the Pauli principle emerges as a sum-rule connecting high- and low-energy scales," said Philip Phillips, a professor of physics at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, who will present the team's findings at the spring meeting of the American Physical Society, to be held in Los Angeles, March 21-25. This work also appeared in the Dec. 31, 2004, issue of the journal Physical Review Letters.

"It is standard practice in physics to separate high- and low-energy scales through a procedure known as renormalization," Phillips said. "We have shown that this procedure changes the statics of the excitations within doped Mott insulators, resulting in a violation of the Pauli principle. Since such a violation is not possible, we conclude that high- and low-energy scales are inextricably linked in doped Mott insulators."

Unlike low-temperature superconductors, which are metals, high-temperature superconductors are insulators in their normal state. Even more puzzling, half of the electron states are empty.

"Since there are plenty of available positions for electrons, you would think these materials should be metallic," Phillips said. "Even though there are many unoccupied states, strong electron interactions cause them to be insulators."

Strong electron interaction is the key to understanding Mott insulators, Phillips said. "The interactions cause a mixing of the high- and low-energy scales. Because the electrons at all energy levels are interconnected, performing renormalization will be done at a price -- in this case at the expense of the Pauli exclusion principle."

Phillips and his colleagues -- Illinois graduate student Dimitrios Galanakis and former graduate student Tudor D. Stanescu (now a postdoctoral research associate at Rutgers University) -- also suggest that the mixing of high- and low-energy scales might explain the absence of well-resolved electron-like features in the normal state of the copper-oxide superconductors.

Experiments have demonstrated that removing an electron from a metal results in a very narrow peak in the photoemission spectrum. Removing an electron from the normal state of a high-temperature superconductor results in a very broad feature.

"If you remove the high-energy scale through the process of renormalization, the spectral features are very sharp," Phillips said. "But if you retain it, the features are very broad. If the physics changes when you remove the high-energy scale, then renormalization is out the window. The Pauli principle can not be violated."

Source: University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
http://www.physorg.com/news3496.html

This is also interesting reading for those with an interest in it. Excerpted from: http://www.iop.org/EJ/abstract/1742-6596/67/1/012033


New experimental limit on Pauli exclusion principle violation by electrons (VIP experiment)

Abstract. The Pauli exclusion principle (PEP) represents one of the basic principles of modern physics and, even if there are no compelling reasons to doubt its validity, it still spurs a lively debate, because an intuitive, elementary explanation is still missing, and because of its unique stand among the basic symmetries of physics. A new limit on the probability that PEP is violated by electrons was estabilished by the VIP (Violation of the Pauli exclusion principle) Collaboration, using the method of searching for PEP forbidden atomic transitions in copper. The preliminary value, 1/2β2 < 4.5 ? 10−28, represents an improvement of about two orders of magnitude of the previous limit. The goal of VIP is to push this limit at the level of 10−30.

S Bartalucci et al 2007 J. Phys.: Conf. Ser. 67 012033 (6pp)
S Bartalucci1, S Bertolucci1, M Bragadireanu1,2, M Cargnelli3, M Catitti1, C Curceanu (Petrascu)1, S Di Matteo1, J-P Egger4, C Guaraldo1, M Iliescu1,2, T Ishiwatari3, M Laubenstein5, J Marton3, E Milotti6, D Pietreanu1,7, T Ponta2, D L Sirghi1,2, F Sirghi1,2, L Sperandio1, O Vazquez Doce1, E Widmann3 and J Zmeskal3
1 NFN, Laboratori Nazionali di Prascati, C.P. 13, Via E. Fermi 40, I-00044, Frascati (Roma), Italy
2 'Horia Hulubei' National Institute of Physics and Nuclear Engineering, Str. Atomistilor no. 407, PO Box MG-6, Bucharest - Magurele, Romania
3 Stefan Meyer Institute for Subatomic Physics, Boltzmanngasse 3, A-1090 Vienna, Austria
4 Institute de Physique, Universit? de Neuch?tel, 1 rue A.-L. Breguet, CH-2000 Neuch?tel, Switzerland
5 Laboratori Nazionali del Gran Sasso, S.S. 17/bis, 1-67010 Assergi (AQ), Italy
6 Dipartimento di Fisica, Universit? di Trieste and INFN- Sezione di Trieste, Via Valerio, 2, 1-34127 Trieste, Italy
7 UMF Carol Davila, 8 Blv. Eroilor Sanitari, Bucharest, Romania
E-mail: petrascu@lnf.inf n. it

Confucius say "If you not scientist, stay out of lab"

Interesting science, Watcha, but I am not sure of your point. Sure, science continues to tweek the facts about how we can grasp and manipulate reality. Science is never absolute or totalistic like some cult leaders we know.

My reason for mentioning the PEP is to counter the claim that we as human bodies can "violate" the principle through bilocation or as "walk-ins" wherein an alien being inhabits our bodies with us. Or that somehow, as claimed in The Celestine Prophecy by Redfield and so many similar writings [and the kabbalist above mentions] that we can "walk through walls" or become invisible if we would only "create" a "high vibration" thru meditation or some other bogus ritual. "Certain conditions" like high-temperature superconductivity does not include the human condition as I know it.

Hi Watcha.. Joe,
Interesting thread..

My reason for mentioning the PEP is to counter the claim that we as human bodies can "violate" the principle through bilocation or as "walk-ins" wherein an alien being inhabits our bodies with us.

Here's a little herb to throw in the pot...
The angle that JZR sells her RSE "pseudo science"..! Is to use the example of Jesus Christ
(as well as many other spiritual teachers), as a man?s journey through faith and tribulations to achieve so called ?enlightenment " RSE Style, who apparently can bend the laws of physics?! perform miracles, ?Walk on water..Walk through walls?
Its a great sales pitch to reel in the Christians in the crowd...
Perhaps, One man?s miracle is another mans science..? both hold a strong faith.
Either way?.
None of this is significant, if integrity and humanity is lost on the path to enlightenment.

I wonder...
If God gave an open day to Heaven,
how many angels would be trampled in the rush..?



David.

David,
What you bring up goes to a core confusion when seekers take "miracles" too literally. JZ runs a fundamentalist camp of sorts, something I call New Age fundamentalism, not much different than Christian fundamentalists who believe that through "faith" and enough ritual prayer they too can do miracles.

Most Fundamentalists have yet to absorb the lessons of the Enlightenment and integrate the best ideas into our religions. Actually, St Augustine already recognized the modernist view 17 centuries ago and integrated it into the faith.

A great discussion about this is by Meera Nanda (2004) Prophets Facing Backward. Nanda looks at the rise of Hindu fundamentalism. Interestingly enough it rose about the same time as Christian fundamentalism did in the 19th Century as a reaction to scientific modernism. Our New Age Movement grew from a similar reaction among occutlists, neo-gnostics, and 19th century mystics created Theosophy and New Thought religions to compete with what they thought was "science." Thus we have everything from Christian Science to Science of the Mind to Scientology.

Nanda's discussion shows how postmodernist ideas have been married to archsaic religious notions to create a neo-fascist impulse in many nations. We see it among those imbedded in the Christian right wingers in government. IN India it was the sarya samaj of the 19th century that morphed into todays BJP party that rules India. That politic encourages the worst kinds of mysticism and magic from the old Vedas as if those revelations and rituals were "scientific," argues Nanda. A parallel movement in Christianity is "Intelligent design" or ID that continues to lose in court. ID proponents use pseudo-science to disguise religious fundamentalism.

http://www.amazon.com/Prophets-Facing-B ... 643&sr=8-1

http://www.threeessays.com/authors.php?id=4

correct: I meant "Arya Samaj"

BJP
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bharatiya_Janata_Party

I'm not going to engage a debate about whether or not bilocation can, ever have, does, or ever will happen. Instead, I elect to comment on historical and current data regarding bilocation. If bilocation is "real", I want to know the truth. If it's "not real", I want to know the truth. That desire is independent of RSE, JZ, or WTBleep. I don't need them to tell me what history or science can tell me for free, without the group dogma.

With that in mind, I share the following few posts:

?II. Michelson and Morely Attempt to Measure the Absolute Speed of the Earth
Albert Michelson (who, like many characters in Against the Day, grew up in mining towns) and Edward Morley developed an extremely sensitive instrument to measure the speed of the earth relative to the hypothesized aether. The reasoning behind the experiment goes something like this: if light propagates at a constant speed through the aether (at 300,000,000 m/s), and if the earth moves at a certain speed relative to the aether (at, say, 30,000 m/s), then light moving in the same direction as the earth should appear to move more slowly to an observer on the earth - the speed of light in the aether, minus the speed of the earth. It's like driving on the highway - if you are going 60 mph and driving behind a car going 90 mph, then from your perspective the car in front is moving away from you at 30 mph. Michelson and Morley measured the speed of the earth relative to the aether and came up with a disturbing result - relative to the aether, the earth was not moving at all.

I'm won't describe exactly how the Michelson-Morley experiment worked - good explanations can be found in a physics textbook or a Google search. However, the basic setup of the experiment has a connection to some of the plot structure in Against the Day, as well as to the themes of double refraction and bilocation.

In the experiment, a light beam is split into two separate beams, which travel away from each other at a 90˚ angle, are reflected by mirrors, and then travel back and meet up, at which point they are either in phase or out of phase with each other (see the diagram below). If the earth is moving relative to the aether, the different light beams will travel different distances, and come back out of phase with each other.



Pynchon hints that there is a connection here with bilocation and double refraction, as well as human Michelson-Morley experiments (such as, possibly, when characters split up, go on long journeys and meet up again in or out of phase with each other in some way). There are some critical passages beginning on p. 61, where Merle "got the idea in his head that the Michelson-Morley experiment and the Blinky Morgan manhunt were connected." Blinky is referred to as a "human interferometer" or "A double-refractor, for that matter." (p. 62) In one of the earliest examples of bilocation in the book, Merle suspects that Morgan and Morely are the same person:

"... suppose when they split that light beam, that one half of it is Michelson's and the other is his partner Morley's, which turns out to be the half that comes back with the phases perfectly matched up - but under slightly different conditions, alternative axioms, there could be another pair that don't match up, see, in fact millions of pairs, that sometimes you could blame it on the Aether, sure, but other cases maybe the light goes someplace else, takes a detour and that's why it shows up late and out of phase, because it went where Blinky went when we was invisible, and-" (p. 62)

The connection between Iceland spar and the Michelson-Morley experiment is made more explicit later in the book, where the Cohen explains to Lew Basnight that his goal is to eventually be able to pass through Iceland spar, "which is an expression in crystal form of Earth's velocity as it rushes through the Aether, altering dimensions, and creating double refraction...." (p. 688)

Pynchon plays with this idea at multiple places throughout the book. He also includes elements of an aether culture - worshippers who show up for the Michelson-Morley experiment (p. 59-60), as well as hints of a whole science of aether weather, with which the Chums of Chance seem to be involved - a network of ships and balloons to monitor the ether is hinted at on p. 60. (Historically, people did in fact come up with elaborate ideas using putative aether behavior, such as vortices, to explain physical phenomena.)

Returning to Michelson and Morley - the results of their experiment were negative. They could detect no movement of the earth relative to the aether. Over the next several decades, scientists came up with various explanations for the negative result. One explanation, mentioned in Against the Day, is that the earth drags some of the aether along with it (and thus the earth isn't moving relative to the dragging layer of aether, so you don't detect a change in the speed of light). One of Pynchon's characters draws an analogy between this explanation and the dimples on a golf ball, and the lift of the golf ball through the air and the lift of the earth through the aether. [I'm sure Pynchon includes more, but I'll have to pick that up on a second reading.]

III. Revising Our Notions of Space and Time
One possible solution to handle the negative result of the experiment was to try to modify the laws of electromagnetism. Maxwell's equations were quite young compared to Newton's laws, so it seemed obvious that the problem was with Maxwell and not Newton. However, it became clear that Maxwell's laws were in fact correct, and eventually (as Einstein's theory of special relativity became accepted), that light traveled at a constant speed in any non-accelerating reference frame - not just in one universal aether reference frame. This means that whether you are standing on the ground or traveling at 100,000,000 m/s in a (currently fictitious) space ship, a light pulse will always appear to be traveling at 300,000,000 m/s. To go back to our highway analogy - you're going 60 mph behind a car going 90 mph, and instead of appearing to move away from you at 30 mph, the car appears to be going 90 mph away from you. The implication of this very weird phenomenon is that our everyday ideas about space and time are not correct.?

Excerpted from http://adaptivecomplexity.blogspot.com/ ... ctors.html
Article written by M. White, a biochemist and a postdoctoral fellow in the Department of Genetics and the Center for Genome Sciences at the Washington University School of Medicine.

Bilocation
The presence of a finite being in two places at once
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* Published by Encyclopedia Press, 1913.


Bilocation (Latin bis, twice, and locatio, place). I. The question whether the same finite being (especially a body) can be at once in two (bilocation) or more (replication, multilocation) totally different places grew out of the Catholic doctrine on the Eucharist. According to this Christ is truly, really, and substantially present in every consecrated Host wheresoever located. In the endeavor to connect this fact of faith with the other conceptions of the Catholic mind theologians make the following distinctions: (I) The place of a body is the surface of the body or bodies immediately surrounding and in contact with the located body. (2) A physical body is in place commensurably (circumscriptively) inasmuch as the individual portions of its exterior surfaces answer singly to the corresponding portions of the immediately environing surfaces of the body or bodies that constitute its place. (3) A being is definitively in place when it is entire in every portion of the space it occupies. This is the mode of location proper to unembodied spirits and to the human soul in the organism whereof it is the "substantial form", i.e. the actuating and vitalizing principle. A spirit cannot, of course, be in loco circumscriptively since, having no integrant parts, it cannot be in extensional contact with the surrounding dimensions. It may be said, therefore, to locate itself by its spiritual activity (will) and rather to occupy than to be occupied by place, and consequently to be virtually rather than formally in loco. Such a mode of location cannot be natural to a physical body. Whether it can be so absolutely, supernaturally, miraculously, by an interference on the part of Omnipotence will be considered below. (4) A mixed mode of location would be that of a being which is circumscriptively in one place (as is Christ in heaven), and definitively (sacramentally) elsewhere (as is Christ in the consecrated Host).

II. That bilocation (multilocation) is physically impossible, that is, contrary to all the conditions of matter at present known to us, is the practically unanimous teaching of Catholic philosophers in accordance with universal experience and natural science. As to the absolute or metaphysical impossibility, that is, whether bilocation involves an intrinsic contradiction, so that by no exertion even of Omnipotence could the same body be at once in wholly different places?to this question the foregoing distinctions are pertinent. (I) Catholic philosophers maintain that there is no absolute impossibility in the same body being at once circumscriptively in one place and definitively elsewhere (mixed mode of location). The basis of this opinion is that local extension is not essential to material substance. The latter is and remains what it is wheresoever located. Local extension is consequent on a naturally universal, but still not essentially necessary, property of material substance. It is the immediate resultant of the "quantity" inherent in a body's material composition and consists in a contactual relation of the body with the circumambient surfaces. Being a resultant or quasi effect of quantity it may be suspended in its actualization; at least such suspension involves no absolute impossibility and may therefore be effected by Omnipotent agency. Should, therefore, God choose to deprive a body of its extensional relation to its place and thus, so to speak, delocalize the material substance, the latter would be quasi spiritualized and would thus, besides its natural circumscriptive location, be capable of receiving definitive and consequently multiple location; for in this case the obstacle to bilocation, viz., actual local extension, would have been removed. Replication does not involve multiplication of the body's substance but only the multiplication of its local relations to other bodies. The existence of its substance in one place is contradicted only by non-existence in that same place, but says nothing per se about existence or non-existence elsewhere. (2) If mixed replication involves no absolute contradiction, definitive replication a fortiori does not. (3) Regarding the absolute possibility of a body being present circumscriptively in more than one place, St. Thomas, Vasquez, Silv. Maurus, and many others deny such possibility. The instances of bilocation narrated in lives of the saints can be explained, they hold, by phantasmal replications or by aerial materializations. Scotus, Bellarmine, Suarez, DeLugo, Franzelin, and many others defend the possibility of circumscriptive replication. Their arguments as well as the various subtle questions and difficulties pertinent to the whole subject will be found in works cited below.

F. P. SIEGFRIED

Excerpted from http://oce.catholic.com/index.php?title=Bilocation

Holy Bilocation Batman..!
There?s a lot to ponder here?

David,

It IS a lot to ponder.

What seems apparent, though, historically, is that as human beings there is much we do not know. I try to be cautious of falling into a dogmatic trap of ... well, possibly being arrogant and deluding myself on any level (intellectually, emotionally...) that I have all the answers. Surely, I know that I don't. That's good. Because if All That Is is limited to just what I know, we're all in trouble. That's pretty limited. Same goes for all human beings; humility about what we do NOT know, is a good quality, imo.

ReligionS have yielded to scientific discoveries many times, historically. Religions changes and so does science; a good thing as they both grow toward understanding what we do not know. That's why, I found it impressive that (using one example) the Catholics have theologians who are so open minded as to defend the possibility of bilocation being a potential yet not understood. This is good; it shows humility and respect for our human understanding.

JZ Knight is a total fraud in my opinion, to be teaching people in RSE that they can, NOW, in THIS lifetime, bilocate and ascend, etc., etc., when she cannot substantiate her claims. That's the definition of fraud ! But, imo, it's an error to think it could never happen. I read leading edge scientific articles almost daily, and keep abreast of the phenomenal, mind bending, surreal-to-the-unaware citizen, inventions that are happening at about 400 per month, globally.

I know a person, firsthand, who did a summer long research project in Germany at a major University, moving photons through matter. It worked. packets of quanta. These things are not mainstream, common news for people, but the information IS available for those who want to know. I want to know, and I don't want JZ Knight's distorted spin on it, or any other non-scientist, for that matter.

Life is good.

More ... of possible interest ...

Violating a not-so-exclusive exclusion principle.

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Violating a not-so-exclusive exclusion principle exclusion principle, physical principle enunciated by Wolfgang Pauli in 1925 stating that no two electrons in an atom can occupy the same energy state simultaneously.


The Pauli exclusion principle Pauli exclusion principle

Assertion proposed by Wolfgang Pauli that no two electrons in an atom can be in the same state or configuration at the same time. It accounts for the observed patterns of light emission from atoms. stands at the basis of the structure and stability of matter. It prevents, atoms, nuclei and larger structures, up to and including neutron stars, from collapsing on themselves. It does so by decreeing that no two particles of the class called fermions that have the same set of properties (the same quantum numbers) can be in the same place at the same time. The particles of physics are divided into fermions and bosons, and while any number of bosons can be in the same place, the exclusion principle maintains structures made of fermions (electrons, protons, neutrons) by restricing them.

Historically, physicists have believed the principle to be absolute. But now a few are asking, "Can it be violated?"

To explore that question, Oscar W. Greenberg Oscar Wallace Greenberg is an American physicist and professor at University of Maryland, College Park. He is famous for positing the existence of a property of subatomic particles called color charge.
..... Click the link for more information. and Rabindra N. Mohapatra of the University of Maryland University of Maryland can refer to:

* University of Maryland, College Park, a research-extensive and flagship university; when the term "University of Maryland" is used without any qualification, it generally refers to this school
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at College Park have developed a theory that permits a slight violation of the exclusion principle. Experiments to test their theory are likely to follow.

According to Greenberg, the argument underpinning the absoluteness of the exclusion principle, using the statistical laws obeyed by fermions and bosons, makes a couple of false assumptions. As he said in a lecture last week at the National Bureau of Standards National Bureau of Standards: see National Institute of Standards and Technology.

NBS - National Bureau of Standards: part of the US Department of Commerce, now NIST. ) in Gaithersburg, Md., those statistical principles are not general enough to support the argument. Greenberg and Mohapatra searched for a more generalized statistical law. When they found it, they discovered that it permits the existence of particles they call "parafermions" or "parons," which can violate the exclusion principle. The chance of violation is extremely small, about 1 in 100 million. However, this could produce unusual atomic states.

The experiment that may be closest to realization is one proposed by Daniel Kelleher of NBS, which would use helium atoms. Helium has two electrons, and according to the exclusion principle the spins of these two electrons must always be in opposite directions. However, a "paronic" helium atom, if one exists, could have its electron spins parallel. Each spinning electron is a little magnet producing a small magnetic field, or magnetic moment. With the spins antiparallel antiparallel /an?ti?par?al?lel/ (-par?ah-lel) denoting molecules arranged side by side but in opposite directions. , the two magnetic moments cancel each other and the helium atom has no magnetic moment overall. Parallel spins mean parallel magnetic moments, which add together to give the atom a net magnetic moment. Kelleher's experiment would use magnetic fields magnetic fields,
n.pl the spaces in which magnetic forces are detectable; created by magnetostrictive ultrasonic scalers to cause the tips of instruments such as ultrasonic scalers to vibrate. to deflect and count paronic helium atoms. He told SCIENCE NEWS that he expected to hear in a few days whether NBS would fund the work.

In addition to producing unusual atomic states, the proposed violation of the exclusion principle relates to two important questions in modern particle physics, the many-dimensioned or Kaluza-Klein theories and the CPT theorem. Attempting to unify all of physics in one grand theory, theorists have postulated that space really has up to a dozen dimensions. We do not perceive the extra dimensions because they are tightly curved into microscopic balls around each point in ordinary space. The exclusion-principle violation can be related to the existence of these extra dimensions, and finding it could be evidence that they are really there.

The CPT theorem, one of the fundamental principles of physics, proposes that nature is symmetric with respect to matter and antimatter antimatter: see antiparticle. antimatter

Substance composed of elementary particles having the mass and electric charge of ordinary matter (such as electrons and protons) but for which the charge and related magnetic properties are opposite in sign.
If the exclusion principlke is violated, so is CPT


Greenberg doesn't know what the ultimate effects of a violation of the exclusion principle might be, but as he said at NBS, "Small-scale phenomena can have large-scale effects."

http://www.thefreelibrary.com/Violating ... -a06454913

Perhaps ?JZR? is a teleportation mishap?

I can just hear those Andromeda Scientist saying..

DANG ........what the hell have we done?

chuckle.

Here's some more interesting BBC reading regarding "Violating the exclusive exclusion principle"...!
or..The disembodiment of an object in one location and its reconstruction in another...


David.

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By Dr David Whitehouse
BBC News Online science editor


It is a long way from Star Trek, but teleportation - the disembodiment of an object in one location and its reconstruction in another - has been successfully carried out in a physics lab in Australia.
Scientists at the Australian National University (ANU) made a beam of light disappear in one place and reappear in another a short distance away.
The achievement confirms that in theory teleportation is possible, at least for sub-atomic particles; whether it can be done for larger systems, such as atoms, remains to be seen.
The more likely applications will come in telecommunications, enabling much faster transfer of data and the use of encryption that can never be broken.
Will we ever be able to teleport humans?
Teleportation has been one of the hottest topics among physicists working in quantum mechanics - the study of the fundamental structure of matter.
Some 40 labs around the world are currently trying to teleport a laser beam after pioneering work in 1998 at the California Institute of Technology showed it should be possible.
'Spooky interaction'
The Australian researchers have exploited a phenomenon called "quantum entanglement", which links the properties of two photons of light created at the same time. Einstein called it a "spooky interaction".
What it means is that two photons can be created and sent to different places. It is possible to force one photon into a specific quantum mechanical state and, because the two photons are connected in some way, the other photon will instantaneously take up a complementary state.
At first sight, entanglement offers the prospect of sending a signal faster than the speed of light. But a closer look at what is actually possible shows that this will not work because of the limits of what can be known about quantum mechanical systems and how such information is relayed.
But it may offer the prospect of a Star Trek-style transporter.
'Exciting applications'
Using quantum entanglement, ANU physicist Ping Koy Lam has disassembled laser light at one end of an optical communications system and recreated a replica just a metre away.
An encoded signal is embedded in an input stream of photons, which is entangled with another beam.
Elsewhere in the lab, the beam of photons and the associated signal is reconstituted.
"What we have demonstrated here is that we can take billions of photons, destroy them simultaneously, and then recreate them in another place," Dr Lam says.
"The applications of teleportation for computers and communications over the next decade are very exciting," he adds.
Body movement
Quantum teleportation could make encrypted or coded information 100% secure, Dr Lam said, because even if intercepted the message would be unintelligible unless it was intended for a specific recipient.
"It should be possible to construct a perfect cryptography system. When two parties want to communicate with one another, we can enable the secrecy of the communication to be absolutely perfect."
But for a human to be teleported, a machine would have to be built that could pinpoint and analyse the trillions and trillions of atoms that make up the human body.
"I think teleporting of that kind is very, very far away," Dr Lam says. "We don't know how to do that with a single atom yet."
Quantum teleporting is problematic for humans because the original is destroyed in the process of creating the replica.

BBC NEWS | Science/Nature | Australian teleport breakthrough

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/science/nature/2049048.stm


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Q&A: Teleportation


No beaming up like Spock and co just yet
Australia National University scientists have been able to teleport the light from a laser from one part of a laboratory to another. BBC News Online Science Editor, Dr David Whitehouse, answers some basic questions about teleportation.
Moving beams of light around sounds like a clever trick, is it relevant to me?
The ultra-fast computers of the future will be based on beams of light that exploit the strange properties of the sub-atomic or quantum mechanical world. Using light and quantum mechanics offers the prospect of computers trillions of times more powerful than we have today. The first, tentative but encouraging, steps have been made towards primitive quantum computers.
Will we ever be able to move solid objects around?
Highly unlikely. It seems we can move photons of light around and photons do not weigh anything. Perhaps in a few years, we could teleport a single atom. Some researchers believe that we may be able to teleport a virus but they will not say when.
I've seen stuff like this on Star Trek? How would a Star Trek transporter work in real life?
The idea is that a human body is broken down into information and transmitted in some way to another place where that information is used to rebuild the human. Personally, I would take the train.
OK, crystal ball time - at the end of this century, how far could things have advanced?
It is always difficult to speculate about the future. But that will not stop me. We may be able to teleport a molecule, perhaps a few tens of atoms. That would be a great scientific achievement but not a useful matter transporter.
And will we ever transport a human?
To teleport a human would require knowledge of the type and exact position and movement of every atom of the person to be teleported. That is about a hundred thousand million million million million atoms. To send that information down today's fast data transfer systems would take a hundred million times longer than the present age of the Universe (which is about 15 thousand million years).
If it is ever possible, there is the question of whether destroying a human to teleport their information to another place to rebuild them again would constitute murder, and you might also want to discuss if the teleported human would actually be the original person or a copy.

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One bad apple no longer spoils the whole bunch with nanotechnology
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Order your home and have it built in a day. Want to change it tomorrow? Want to change the color and texture every hour? Would you like to wipe out disease and hunger?

Not only could your home be built in a day, but it could also be solar powered. It would be able to withstand hurricane force winds and tornadoes. It would be earthquake proof.

These are not unrealistic situations for the very near future. As incredible as it may seem, nanotechnologies are progressing by the hour and there are test projects being performed as you read this article.

According to the site Nanotech Project , the definition for nanotechnology reads as follows:

Nanotechnology is the ability to measure, see, manipulate and manufacture things usually between 1 and 100 nanometers. A nanometer is one billionth of a meter; a human hair is roughly 100,000 nanometers wide. In 2007, the global market for goods incorporating nanotechnology totaled $147 billion. Lux Research projects that figure will grow to $3.1 trillion by 2015.

That?s like putting 10,000 little pieces of information on a hair of the common housefly. Scientist have discovered a way to create nanoparticles that are manipulated to work as a part of the environment they were designed to fix or enhance.

In other words, nanoparticles are multifaceted. Brown University scientist created a nanoparticle that has the ability to fix certain breast cancer cells. A nanoparticle is injected in to the body where it seeks out the sick cells and fixes them. Nanoparticles travel to the cancerous cell, docks to it, and unloads its workers to fix the problem.

Cancer patients suffer from the side affects of drugs that attempt to kill the dysfunctional cells. The problems being that those side affects of the drugs will make you sick and often kill healthy cells in the process.

A nanoparticle fixes the cell without tipping the apple cart of its content. Instead, it returns the sour apple to a healthy state. One bad apple will no longer spoil the whole bunch. So if it can fix a breast cancer cell??.then we are soon to discover many ailments, diseases, birth defects, injured body parts, and so much more will be fixed. I suppose that leads to longevity don?t you think?

Nanotechwire.com is a site that educates on nano technology and discoveries. You can search their sidebar for topics where nanotechnology is being applied today. There are categories from medicine to electronics. Nanotechnology is projected to be the next boom to our economy surpassing the industrial revolution era in discoveries and applied improvements to the environment and quality of life.

Amorphous metals give us a super strong building block for objects from cell phones to ?well?.the sky is the limit. These metals are bendable without creasing, have morphing abilities, and can detect the properties of other objects. The nano particles stick together without being stiff. It has characteristics of glass. Glass is a solid liquid.

The amorphous metals can be formed in to any shape, they are solar, and they can change texture and color. So theoretically, you could order your new home from a mold and have it poured tomorrow. Existing buildings could be covered in the substance and made to be energy efficient.

If vegetative containers were made of this substance, they would be heat conducting. You could possibly garden year round as the container harnesses the suns warmth and power. Every home could have their own vegetables without seeking to find them greenhouse grown.

The amorphous metals are smart. They can mimic any color at any time if the information is sent through its database. If you wanted the building to be pink brick then you would show a pink brick to the amorphous metal nano database.

That database such as a cell phone would program the building to be pink brick. So if that turns out looking awful?..show the data base stucco siding ,a chocolate bar, cedar siding, turtles back, fish scales, or whatever and it will change in an instant.

Nokia.com explains their research on The Morph Concept. They are developing a personal morph type media tool. It?s a bit like a cell phone. The handy little gadget folds without folding. You?ll have to see the video to understand that. It can copy anything you show it. If you wanted the tool to match your outfit?it will. If you want it to be apple red?it will. You want an alagator feel to it?..it will.



On March 25th this year, North Carolina is holding a conference on the commercialization of nanotechnology. The conference is by invitation only. This is our future and it looks mighty bright.

Those of you fearing how our economy will recover, be of good cheer. There are new discoveries in the present and on the horizon. One of the new discoveries in nanotechnology is a nanostructured diamond. This diamond has bonding and detecting properties that allow it to pick up the smallest trace of hazardous materials or chemical agents. It will be small enough to carry with you.

Being able to detect chemical agents at the smallest levels defeats the purpose of administering those life-endangering substances in the first place. Almost assuring us less chances of a chemical attack by those who wish to harm us.

Nanotechnology takes up less space on earth, is cleaner, better for the environment, and will be very affordable. Our future looks healthy and clean.