Beam Me Up Scotty?

[Praxeas]

A strange discovery by quantum physicists at the University of California Santa Barbara means that an object you can see in front of you may exist simultaneously in a [COLOR=blue ! important][COLOR=blue ! important]parallel [COLOR=blue ! important]universe[/COLOR][/COLOR] -- a multi-state condition that has scientists theorizing that teleportation or even time travel may be much more than just the plaything of science fiction writers.

Read more: http://www.foxnews.com/scitech/2010/...#ixzz18S6zV9hB[/COLOR]

[Baron1710]

Originally Posted by Praxeas

A strange discovery by quantum physicists at the University of California Santa Barbara means that an object you can see in front of you may exist simultaneously in a [COLOR=blue ! important][COLOR=blue ! important]parallel [COLOR=blue ! important]universe[/COLOR][/COLOR] -- a multi-state condition that has scientists theorizing that teleportation or even time travel may be much more than just the plaything of science fiction writers.

Read more: http://www.foxnews.com/scitech/2010/...#ixzz18S6zV9hB[/COLOR]

Once they got past the reporter fluff at the beginning of the article and began talking about what they were actually doing...I was lost.

[Praxeas]

Originally Posted by Baron1710

Once they got past the reporter fluff at the beginning of the article and began talking about what they were actually doing...I was lost.

hehe, yeah I don't fully comprehend it either

[Apocrypha]

Essentially they are saying that all matter and non-baryonic particles on the quantum level exists both in objective reality as we percieve it with one defined energy state, also it exists in other levels/dimensions of reality (or parallel unreality) with multiple energy values that we are now able to measure.

It may be a answer to the Heisenberg uncertainty principle, which is one of the basic "truths" of quantum mechanics. Which while true has messed with particle theorists for years because while it seems to be true, defies logic to a degree.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Uncertainty_principle

[Arphaxad]

We look for things. Things that make us go. We are far from home. Our ship is broken. You are smart. You can fix.

[RandyWayne]

I love reading about quantum physics. It is amazing how things begin to break down the smaller, and shorter -time wise, we get. For example gravity is the strongest of the four fundamental forces we know on the macro scale yet the weakest at the atomic and even so weak as to be virtually irrelevant at the quantum scale.

And then beyond the quantum we have the planck length (or 10 to the minus 35 meter), a distance so short as to make a planck-length dot to an atom as an atom is to a grapefruit. Planck TIME is even more extreme. It is defined as the time it takes light to travel the distance of a planck length.

From Wikipedia:
"The physical significance of the Planck length, if any, is not yet known. Because the Planck length is the only length that can be formed from the constants c, G, and ħ, dimensional analysis suggests that lengths of special significance in quantum gravity are likely to be small multiples of the Planck length. In some theories or forms of quantum gravity, it is the length scale at which the structure of spacetime becomes dominated by quantum effects, giving it a discrete or foamy structure, but other theories of quantum gravity predict no such effects. If there are large extra dimensions, the measured strength of gravity may be much smaller than its true (small-scale) value. In this case the Planck length would have no physical significance, and quantum gravitational effects would appear at much larger scales. Because the Planck length is so tiny (about one-1020th of the diameter of a proton), there is no hope of directly probing this length scale in the foreseeable future.

The Planck area, equal to the square of the Planck length, has a clearer role in quantum gravity. Black hole entropy is known to be given by A/4\ell_P^2 where A is the area of the event horizon. The action in string theory is proportional to the area of the string worldsheet, and area is quantized in loop quantum gravity."

[Praxeas]

I wonder if Dr. Rush or Cloe can calculate it. Or maybe Eli

[RandyWayne]

Well, Eli was able to figure out what many scientists could not. And Chloe has nearly completed her transformation to her alien half.

Dr Rush will just continue to mislead Everet about his current discoveries.....

[johnny44]

You guys just make it all easy to comprehend.

[Apocrypha]

Originally Posted by RandyWayne

Well, Eli was able to figure out what many scientists could not. And Chloe has nearly completed her transformation to her alien half.

Dr Rush will just continue to mislead Everet about his current discoveries.....

Too bad they were smart enuff to escape cancellation. Just goes to show that the idiots at SciFi(or SyFy.. or the wrestling channel) and NBC are more powerful than the system lords, the Ori, the Wraith, the old replicators, the Pegasus galaxy replicators, the Asguard, and all of earth with its 303 and 304 space ships.

So basically Destiny and her crew got pwned by a Hollywood programming director with a cellphone.