Crazy Physics Facts. Aaron O'Connell: Making sense of a visible quantum object. David Griffiths. Emeritus Professor of Physics Knowlton Laboratory of Physics 26 (503) 777-7252 email: griffith@reed.edu Education: Ph.
D. Physics 1970 Harvard University M. A. Dissertation: "Covariant Approach to Massless Field Theory in the Radiation Gauge" (advisor: Sidney Coleman) Post-Doctoral positions: 1970-72 University of Utah1972-74 University of Massachusetts, Amherst Employment: 1974 Hampshire College, Amherst, MA1974-77 Mt. Research interests: Classical Electrodynamics Quantum Mechanics Elementary Particle Theory. Physics. Motion Mountain - The Free Physics Textbook for Download. Teleportation. Teleportation is the name given by science fiction writers to the feat of making an object or person disintegrate in one place while a perfect replica appears somewhere else.
How this is accomplished is usually not explained in detail, but the general idea seems to be that the original object is scanned in such a way as to extract all the information from it, then this information is transmitted to the receiving location and used to construct the replica, not necessarily from the actual material of the original, but perhaps from atoms of the same kinds, arranged in exactly the same pattern as the original. A teleportation machine would be like a fax machine, except that it would work on 3-dimensional objects as well as documents, it would produce an exact copy rather than an approximate facsimile, and it would destroy the original in the process of scanning it. In 1993 an international group of six scientists, including IBM Fellow Charles H.
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