| Re: Teleporting rocket fuel as a Bose-Einstein condensate
Maybe I will only get a good explanation about why not... but what role could Entanglement play in this enterprise? I have read that entangled particles are the only confirmed instance of FTL transfer of information. When an entangled pair is shot in any two directions, the reading of spin on one always determines the spin on the other. If one is shot through a gizmo that would guarantee its spin, then you would be (in that same instant) spinning the other in the opposite direction. This may all be a bit simplified, but that is essentially how I remember it.
Taking Pyro's idea of quantum effects on a macroscopic thing, what if the transmitter and the receiver were in fact entangled at a quantum level? No matter how far apart they got, they would be the physics equivalent of the Corsican Brothers; one feeling the other's pain. At one device you feed information in, and simultaneously the same information is emitted at the other device. Could macroscopic entangled gizmos allow the conduction/transfer of more than just information? Could you send electrons through such a device? Could you send photons through such a device? Could you send atoms through such a device?
I always assumed that this is how interstellar communications would be made reasonable. Why not take it the next step?
Bill
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