Star Trek's Dream of People Beaming Down May Be One Step Closer
Reginald Barclay (Dwight Schultz) faces his transporter phobia in STAR TREK: THE NEXT GENERATION’s “Realm of Fear.” Image: Paramount.
MACH 1, 2023 – Space, the final frontier, is now one step closer. In 2008, a Japanese physicist, Masahiro Hotta, theorized that energy could be pulled from an energy vacuum and thus bring it into being as a usable energy source. At the time, his theorem proved too “sci-fi” to be believable. Pulling energy from the quantum vacuum wasn’t considered a realistic equation.
Fast forward just 15 short years later and now, using quantum mechanics, two different physics experiments prove it’s possible to conjure energy from an energy vacuum—essentially pulling energy out of thin air—by teleporting energy across microscopic distances, helping to bolster Mr. Hotta’s theory.
The theory has now been taken back off the shelf and is being proven true. Two experiments have extracted energy and filled a vacuum. With these findings, a fresh world of quantum energy science has been opened. Yes, you can actually pull energy from nothing.
Seth Lloyd, a quantum physicist at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (and not a member of the research teams) stated, “This really does test it. You are actually teleporting. You are extracting energy.”
As Hotta has now been validated, the tests prove that every vacuum still had some sort of fluctuation in the quantum fields. And pulling energy from nearby into the vacuum, and then using that energy, is in the realm of reality known as the teleportation concept. Now that it has been produced twice by scientists from the University of Waterloo and Stony Brook University.
If we’ve gone from theory to proof in 15 years, who knows, teleportation may be in this current young generation’s lifetime. (Most likely Amazon will buy it for making deliveries within 45 minutes of purchase.) To read more on this article, as well as answer the question, “Is Quantum Gravity Real?” beam over to PopularMechanics.com.
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