US Tax $$$ at work: Air Force report wants $7.5 million for psychic teleportation

Date: Mon, 08 Nov 2004 23:48:32 -0500
From: Declan McCullagh
Subject: [Politech] Tax $$$ at work: Air Force report wants $7.5
million for psychic teleportation
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USA Today article:
http://www.fas.org/sgp/news/2004/11/usat110504.html
"It is in large part crackpot physics," says physicist Lawrence
Krauss of Case Western Reserve University, author of The Physics of
Star Trek, a book detailing the physical limits that prevent
teleportation. He describes the Air Force report as "some things
adapted from reasonable theoretical studies, and other things from
nonsensical ones."

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http://www.fas.org/sgp/eprint/teleport.pdf

Report date: 25-11-2003
Sponsor:
Air Force Research Laboratory (AFMC)
10 E. Saturn Blvd.
Edwards AFB CA 93524-7680

The concept of teleportation was originally developed during the
Golden Age of 20 century science fiction literature by writers in
need of a form of instantaneous disembodied transportation technology
to support the plots of their stories. Teleportation has appeared
in such SciFi literature classics as Algis Budry's Rogue Moon (Gold
Medal Books, 1960), A. E. van Vogt's World of Null-A (Astounding
Science Fiction, August 1945), and George Langelaan's The Fly
(Playboy Magazine, June 1957). The Playboy Magazine short story led
to a cottage industry of popular films decrying the horrors of
scientific technology that exceeded mankind's wisdom: The Fly
(1958), Return of the Fly (1959), Curse of the Fly (1965), The Fly
(a 1986 remake), and The Fly II (1989). The teleportation concept
has also appeared in episodes of popular television SciFi anthology
series such as The Twilight Zone and The Outer Limits. But the most
widely recognized pop-culture awareness of the teleportation concept
began with the numerous Star Trek television and theatrical movie
series of the past 39 years (beginning in 1964 with the first TV
series pilot episode, The Cage), which are now an international
entertainment and product franchise that was originally spawned by
the late genius television writer-producer Gene Roddenberry.
Because of Star Trek everyone in the world is familiar with the
"transporter" device, which is used to teleport personnel and
material from starship to starship or from ship to planet and vice
versa at the speed of light. People or inanimate objects would be
positioned on the transporter pad and become completely
disintegrated by a beam with their atoms being patterned in a
computer buffer and later converted into a beam that is directed
toward the destination, and then reintegrated back into their
original form (all without error!). "Beam me up, Scotty" is a
familiar automobile bumper sticker or cry of exasperation that were
popularly adopted from the series...

This study was tasked with the purpose of collecting information
describing the teleportation of material objects, providing a
description of teleportation as it occurs in physics, its
theoretical and experimental status, and a projection of potential
applications. The study also consisted of a search for teleportation
phenomena occurring naturally or under laboratory conditions that can
be assembled into a model describing the conditions required to
accomplish the transfer of objects... The author proposes an
additional model for teleportation that is based on a combination of
the experimental results from the previous government studies and
advanced physics concepts. Numerous recommendations outlining
proposals for further theoretical and experimental studies are given
in the report. The report also includes an extensive teleportation
bibliography...



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