From:	Max Rible slothman@*********.org
Subject:	Technological Teleportation/Energy Sources
Date:	Tue, 16 Mar 1999 16:55:13 -0800

At 19:42 3/16/99 -0500, Stainless Steel Rat wrote:
>* Dave Post <caelric@****.com> on Tue, 16 Mar 1999
>| Heh, I know Adam is going to tear this one apart, but I have to give it a
>| try. On the subatomic/quantam mechanics level, teleportation happens. By
>| that I mean, a particle can be in one place, adn then be in another,
>| without traversing the intervening space.

>If you are talking about 'electron tunnelling', I hate to break it to you
>but it does not really happen -- it only appears to happen because of a
>flawed frame of reference.

Where did you hear that? Electron tunneling was a perfectly
legitimate part of physics when I got my BS back in '93. I
wouldn't call quantum tunneling "teleportation" any more than I
would the ordinary electrical jumping around that is enabling
you to read this message, though...

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