C Shivakumar
Chennai:
While
teleportation of humans is a distant dream, scientists have stumbled
upon invention of teleporting information without physical contact,
according to Nobel Laureate Prof Anthony J Legget.
Prof
Legget, who won the Nobel prize in physics,said after
delivering a lecture at the Institute of Mathematical Sciences that,
teleporting information would no longer sound bizarre as earlier thought
and very soon we will have information which will be teleported without
physical contact.
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. However, scientists rule out the possibility of
human beings being teleported in near future. “It is difficult. I
extremely doubt it will be possible,” says Prof Legget, widely
recognized in the theory of low-temperature physics and for his
pioneering work on superfluidity.
Currently,
more research is being done on teleporting of information after
scientists have successfully teleported information between two separate
atoms in unconnected enclosures a meter apart a couple of years ago – a
significant milestone in the global quest for practical quantum
information processing.
Earlier,
Legget delivered a technical lecture on quantum physics and time travel
and highlighting the arrows of time which included physiological,
biological, electromagnetic, thermodynamic and cosmological.
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