Perhaps I was too quick to conclude that fiber is A-OK for a long time. Go to (http://www.independent.co.uk/news/science/breakthrough-brings-star-trek-teleport-a-step-closer-451673.html) to see a teleportation article that appeared in The Independent in June of 2007. An excerpt from the article:
Scientists have set a new record in sending information through thin air using the revolutionary technology of quantum teleportation – although Mr. Spock may have to wait a little longer for a Scotty to beam him up with it. A team of physicists has teleported data over a distance of 89 miles from the Canary Island of La Palma to the neighbouring (sic) island of Tenerife… The scientists did it by exploiting the “spooky” and virtually unfathomable field of quantum entanglement – when the state of matter rather than matter itself is sent from one place to another.
This doesn’t seem to bode well for fiber optics.
You say you never heard of The Independent? Perhaps you’ve heard of CNN. The article Beam me up: Just how close are we to teleportation? (http://www.cnn.com/2007/TECH/science/10/10/human.teleportation/) was published in October of 2007. An excerpt:
Now teleportation, long a staple of the world of science fiction — what episode of Star Trek would be complete without Captain Kirk et al “beaming” off the Enterprise onto the surface of some distant planet? — is being talked of as a serious scientific possibility. More than just talked of, indeed: over the last couple of years physicists … have achieved a rudimentary form of teleportation…
Certainly this puts a wrinkle in our fiber roll-up strategy. But it doesn’t stop there–oil companies, auto makers and airlines should feel a bit threatened as well. Another excerpt from the article:
And what of the “classical teleportation” so integral to the adventures of Captain Kirk, Mr. Spock and Harry Potter? Will there ever come a time when actual people, rather than just the particles of which they are made up, will be able to beam from one place to another? … in principle at least, it is perfectly feasible to teleport humans without violating any of the fundamental laws of physics.
Information instantly moving from one place to another. People teleported across oceans and between planets. How can this be possible?
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